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Speaker 1: Ever do for ze Ellen, I could say we've got

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Speaker 1: a huge financial reporting going on. We're in the reporting

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Speaker 1: season obviously with the listed Companies've got Fletcher after six

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Speaker 1: huge loss, and we've got Spark after six thirty. And

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Speaker 1: I'm going to run you through the details of what's

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Speaker 1: been reported before we get to them. Eighteen past five

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Speaker 1: right now. Now, ki we wool is said to be

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Speaker 1: used in the tennis balls for this year's US Open.

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Speaker 1: Nathan Watt is the commercial general manager at the New

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Speaker 1: Zealand Wolf Services and with us.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Nathan, hey, here the how are you well?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? Now, I thought it was because woo our

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Speaker 1: wool is light, but it's actually because our will is white,

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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly it's because our wall's white and clean from

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Speaker 2: vegetable matter. So yeah, our wall's the best in the

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Speaker 2: world for tennis balls, and that's why they buy it

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Speaker 2: from us.

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Speaker 1: So being super white means that it colors up really

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Speaker 1: nicely without any blemishes or anything.

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent. Absolutely, we've got the best colored wall

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Speaker 2: in the world for strong wool, so it's perfect for

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Speaker 2: tennis balls.

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Speaker 1: Olt if you don't have white wool, like what are

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Speaker 1: other people will looking.

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Speaker 2: Like well, it could be dark shades, it could contaminate

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Speaker 2: with black fiber, or yeah, it could be quite a

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Speaker 2: hard yellow which can't really dye fluorescent colors. So New

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Speaker 2: Zealand wolves just perfect for dyeing fluorescent colors.

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Speaker 1: And what were you saying before, what is it that

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Speaker 1: causes the wall to change color?

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Speaker 2: Well, different atmosphere conditions and breeds. So New Zealand's perfect

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Speaker 2: conditions for grown white wall, and our breeds have been

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Speaker 2: made for over one hundred years of grown white wall,

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Speaker 2: so it just suits perfectly.

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Speaker 1: Oh brilliant. Now, it's wonderful that I mean, it's wonderful

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Speaker 1: that it's being used for the bulls. But there's no

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Speaker 1: branding on the balls, right, so the average punter sitting

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Speaker 1: down does not know that that's a little bit of

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Speaker 1: New Zealand being smacked around the court, do they?

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Speaker 2: No? Unfortunately not, Yeah, because if it's a blend of

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Speaker 2: nylon mam wool, it's not really advertised as that. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're working with Tti and Wilson down the supply chain

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Speaker 2: to start marketing our natural fiber and the credentials that

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Speaker 2: wall has to try and promote a tennis ball as

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Speaker 2: a natural product. So yeah, we're working with that and

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Speaker 2: we're doing some market research the moment.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant stuff. Do you think as a result of it,

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Speaker 1: I mean, is it possible that that they love the

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Speaker 1: tennisballs that they smack around the gojez I need to

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Speaker 1: get a hold some of these tennis balls and suddenly

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Speaker 1: all these orders come in and you guys start selling

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Speaker 1: heaps of wall.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's already a huge market already. They tti use

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Speaker 2: around about two hundre and a half million kilos of

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Speaker 2: the New Zealand war already, which sort of equates around

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Speaker 2: about two hundred and fifty million tennibals. And that's growing dramatically.

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Speaker 2: It is in the last five years with the growth

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Speaker 2: of adels. So look, it's it's year one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: The more, the more demand, the better. But it's already

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Speaker 2: pretty big demand. I'd say by day buy probably two

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Speaker 2: or three percent of the New Zealand War club already brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Hey, thank you very much, Nathan, appreciate and best of

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Speaker 1: luck with everything, Nathan, what general manager?

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