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See and speak to over 30 vendors at the Goulburn Produce & Rural Supplies trade day on Friday June 14.
You'll also find a free barbeque lunch, free tea and coffee, prize giveaways, and a store-wide discount of up to 15 per cent on the day.
On from 10am to 4pm, this annual trade day has been running for a few years now and it is hosted at the premises of Goulburn Produce & Rural Supplies.
Goulburn Produce's manager Kathryn Pengilley - who is also this event's organiser - says it's a great chance for you to meet with the suppliers and ask them questions, get tips and advice, as well as pick up some great end-of-financial-year deals. "Come and ask the experts," Kathryn says.
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Goulburn Produce & Rural Supplies is a local family business that's been going, and growing, since 1983.
They've recently chosen to move their hardware range over to another site in order to focus once again on their core service.
"By moving Mitre 10 out of our premises [at Goulburn Produce and Rural Supplies], we've been able to go back to our rural roots expanding our rural range and making the store a more attractive and visit-able place, concentrating on our rural customers," Kathryn explains.
You can read a little more about their strategic growth in this brief account of their history below.
GROWING LOCALLY
"Goulburn Produce & Rural Supplies has been trading since 1983 when we purchased the PDS rural supply building where we started selling stock feed, mainly off the family farm and then expanded into animal health," says its manager Kathryn Pengilley.
"We are a locally owned family business that has been in the area since 1963 on our 3400ha farm and in business for over 30 years. We have been through drought, floods and good times both on the farm and in the business, and we know and understand what our local farmers go through."
Theirs is a successful story too. They outgrew the original site and moved into the old railway workshops in 1988. Since then they've expanded further into a large and multi-faceted farm and building company.
That expansion saw them adding Mitre 10 and Goulpro Power, and "also now our Polaris and tractor dealership with full workshop facilities," Kathryn says.
"More recently we have purchased the Home Timber and Hardware business," and along with that they decided to move their Mitre 10 business over to that site to allow Goulburn Produce & Rural Supplies to expand its product range and return to its rural roots.
"We have also expanded our staff knowledge base with more agronomists and more animal health advisers, all with a great range and depth of knowledge, adding up to a collective of over 170 years of experience."