SCENIC RIM BUSINESS BREAKFAST

NOVEMBER 2022

Exploring Insights, Challenges and Changes

Dreaming of making your first overseas sale but not sure where to start?
Looking to grow your sales in an existing overseas market or expand into new territories?
Trying to find the right overseas buyer, distributor, or angel investor?
Want to get your products in front of millions of e-customers around the world?

The November business breakfast introduces your key contact from Trade and Investment Queensland, Julie Mark, to talk you through how to get started.

The local panel includes: Andrew Macarthur, Gordon Chalmers and Katharina von Heusinger. 

We have a very special guest speaker reveal the secrets to their success and a local and passionate panel, discussing their journey navigating exporting their product.

• Gordon Scott Chalmers is a well-known speaker on television, in documentaries and at international sustainable conferences in New York, London, Paris, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Gordon has also championed the sustainable manufacturing procedures to the point where he is recognised as a leader in natural formulation and environmental distillation technologies. In late 2017, Gordon, and his partner Dr. Shumei Hou, purchased the tourism iconic Tamborine Mountain Distillery, Queensland’s oldest craft distiller, and Australia’s most awarded this century. Gordon has since been heavily involved in the successful expansion of the distillery business, with the current plans to take this iconic Scenic Rim brand truly internationally, with their first overseas office already opened in 2021, in Asia. 
•  Andrew Macarthur, and his family, are the owners of Plasvacc, Plasvacc USA Inc, Plasvacc UK Limited, and a joint venture with Shadai Corporation, in Japan. He holds the position of Chief Executive Officer. Under his leadership, the company has grown to now have production operations in three countries and exports to fifteen. Mr Macarthur has extensive management and consultancy experience in the area of agribusiness. He owns and oversees several rural properties and is a respected cattle and horse breeder. 
• Always an animal lover, Katharina von Heusinger, studied pharmaceutical sciences and animal husbandry in Europe. She then worked in a corporate position for the international animal health industry gaining in-depth marketing and market research skills. Katharina and her partner, Reiner, created The Golden Bone Bakery to offer a range of healthy alternatives to ordinary pet treats. Their philosophy is simple: every ingredient used, has a nutritional benefit for your pet. Always thinking of how to support people and animals around them, in 2017, they became the official sponsor of the RSPCA QLD. They also joined a rehabilitation program for prisoners at the Borallon Correctional & Training Centre. Over the past five years, Golden Bone supported over forty inmates with paid work opportunities and helped reduce the reoffending rate in QLD.