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Speaker 1: Oh we do it so well here in mid Canniberry

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Speaker 1: hawking it we once again proud to support the A

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Speaker 1: and Z Business of the Year Awards. Fifty finalists are

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Speaker 1: set to be celebrated in just a couple of weeks time,

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Speaker 1: whittil down from a record one hundred and to sixteen entries.

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Speaker 1: Something I made note of was organizer Gary Manning.

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Speaker 2: Remember the first year when we come up with this

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Speaker 2: idea between council and ourselves, we found it out slightly

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Speaker 2: difficult to garner contestants.

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Speaker 1: So challenge the first year challenge get on board.

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Speaker 2: But this tour of time now and it's just happened organically.

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Speaker 2: We didn't have to lift the phone. Everybody just wanted

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Speaker 2: to be a part of it, which is fantastic themselves.

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Speaker 1: What do you think that is? Well, do businesses get

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Speaker 1: out of this process?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a win winning really. You know, you get

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Speaker 2: to benchmark your business against your compellers, your staff, have

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Speaker 2: a feel good attitude towards it that you're pushing your

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Speaker 2: business in that direction and you're proud putting your head

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Speaker 2: up above the parapet and you're proud of what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: I think anybody that went through COVID. If you're still

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Speaker 2: standing and still doing business after that horrendous period of

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Speaker 2: time has just had, I think it's a huge accomplishment.

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Speaker 1: It's reason enough to celebrate absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yah about you should be shouting about your business. Absolutely,

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Speaker 2: And that's what these awards are all about. And it's

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Speaker 2: obviously it's become a parent of USTAD. The fact that

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Speaker 2: we didn't have to strong arm anybody into applying for

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Speaker 2: to compete. It's testaments and itself. People just feel see

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Speaker 2: the value in it, you know it want to be involved. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I hit the opportunity to catch up with Matt Turner

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Speaker 1: who runs the or Poky Poles. Yeah, supreme winner from

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Speaker 1: the last awards. Yeah, and he noted, not often do

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Speaker 1: you have the opportunity to step back and reflect and

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Speaker 1: celebrate your wins.

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Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, what's you say If you're working in

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Speaker 2: your business and not on your business, you're not growing,

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Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, So it's great to be in a position.

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Speaker 2: You know, you've got to do the harder yards as well.

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Speaker 2: When things are tough. You got to roll up your

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Speaker 2: sleeves and get in there and get dirty. But you know,

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Speaker 2: it's great for you have to step away sometimes and

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Speaker 2: look at it from a macro point of view, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think that's what that's what success ultimately lays.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a night where you sit there and

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Speaker 1: you're wreaking eyes the familiar faces, but often you sort

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Speaker 1: of don't realize that, Okay, you're connected with that business

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Speaker 1: and then hold on a second, you're doing what from mccannabury,

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Speaker 1: you're kicking those goals on the international stage from here

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Speaker 1: like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's a typical KEYV thing. That wasn't you

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Speaker 2: know the title poppy syndrome. Well, that's your fact. They

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Speaker 2: should be actually grown, putting some fertilizers on those puppies.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's some serious businesses here in this town,

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Speaker 2: in this region, you know, and that they need to

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Speaker 2: be celebrated. You know, we've had we had to increase

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Speaker 2: the capacity this year. Ticket well, the tickets have passed

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Speaker 2: last year's sales. Yeah, already already yeah, yeah, and four

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Speaker 2: weeks to go. And from our experience, it's the last

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Speaker 2: two weeks that people actually started buying the tickets and

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Speaker 2: tables or whatever.

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Speaker 1: Canterbury Way.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So don't be disappointed, guys, because you want

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Speaker 2: to get on it now because we have to cap

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Speaker 2: it at four fifty. So yeah, yeah, an ashbourt and

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Speaker 2: Aviation Museum are hosting us again. They've just built on

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Speaker 2: their news superhanger, which is absolutely fantastic. What those guys

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Speaker 2: have done up there. It's incredible. Sneaky peak, I've had

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Speaker 2: a sneak. I've had more than a couple of peaks.

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Speaker 2: They're under the pump up there. I'm going straight up

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Speaker 2: there now after this, we're nearly there and hopefully they'll

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Speaker 2: have everything ready for us on the twentieth.

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Speaker 1: So what else can we expect from the night itself?

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Speaker 2: Well, well, it's becoming in the fashion show now it

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Speaker 2: is black ty. Yes, everyone's probably aware, but the high

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Speaker 2: end fashion. The last time, I have to say, everyone's stepping.

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Speaker 1: Up the many there's not many occasions for us to

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Speaker 1: be able to donnate a Sunday beat that.

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Speaker 2: And without being egotistic at all, Like I mean, obviously

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Speaker 2: we raw a partner with Counsel on this and it's

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Speaker 2: a it's a combined effort, but it's become the premier

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Speaker 2: business event in our region and we're very proud of.

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Speaker 1: That rightly, So don't miss out. You can find all

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Speaker 1: the details and book your spots on the website which

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Speaker 1: is Business of the Year dot in ze