Newly minted SPC boss Neil Brimacombe says he has some “bloodied t-shirts” after 30 years in the consumer goods sector.
Neil Brimacombe has replaced Robert Giles as the boss of SPC, the century-old Shepparton-based food processor which was sold by Coca-Cola Amatil for $40 million in 2018.SPC raised prices by about 10 per cent late last year and may have to do so again this year due to rising raw material costs and skyrocketing energy bills, Mr Brimacombe said.
“We certainly see levelling the playing field as one of the bigger challenges for SPC going forward,” Mr Brimacombe told“Australia is an open market, meaning imported product finds its way on to Australian shelves without any protectionist duties or barriers. Now don’t get me wrong, we’re entirely open to the concept of competing internationally and around the country. We’re certainly well up to that.
“We’ve got concerns about labelling, country of origin, content, use of illegal and sub-optimal labour practices and, particularly out of the EU, some very significant agriculture subsidies and export incentives. We’ll be working with the ACCC and other authorities.” Mr Brimacombe, who settled in Port Melbourne five weeks ago and is yet to settle on an AFL team, works at SPC’s head office in Essendon. The company, which employees 300 people during the off-season and up to 800 during the summer peak, allows employees, depending on their role, to work from home up to three days a week. “We are a flexible workplace. This is the modern way,” he says.
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