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Winter leisure market a great wool investment story
11:39 AM AEDT | NORTHERN hemisphere leisure enthusiasts looking for clothing might find the word Merino imprinted on tags more frequently since it became one of the hottest talking points at last month’s giant International trade fair for sporting goods and sports fashion, ISPO, at Munich.  | CommentsComments (1) | Outlook '10: Appetite for wool ...Italian retailers "embarrassed ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Tumut Family ...
Italian retailers
10 Mar 10 | THE Australian Wool Innovation director contingent that visited the major Italian textile trade fair at Biella last month has been described as having clear conflicts of interest, and leaving an embarrassed and disappointed wake, a letter from Italian manufacturers has claimed.  | CommentsComments (25) | AWI board "poisonous, strange ...Scrap "revolving door" AWI, ... | GALLERY: Photos from Woolorama
Outlook '10: Appetite for wool to push EMI to 920c
02 Mar 10 | THE appetite of consumers for woollen products is slowly returning in a promising sign for wool price recovery.
Redundant AWI staffer warns of company disharmony
26 Feb 10 | CLAUDE Untrau, the Paris-based Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) staffer made redundant last month, has made allegations of growing in-house dissatisfaction with the wool promotion and research organisation’s European head offices.  | CommentsComments (5) | Winning ways with wool, the ...Market check pulls wool back ...
Designers bring Romance back to wool
23 Feb 10 | WITH the Woolmark brand and the natural fibre it represents, designer fashion label Romance was Born has helped showcase Australian wool to the world.  | CommentsComments (1) | Europe's winter freeze puts ...Winning ways with wool, the ...
Market check pulls wool back 22c/kg
04 Feb 10 | TOO fast and too soon is the rationale analysts have given the 22 cents a kilogram price check delivered to the Australian wool market last week after it rallied to a three year high in the opening January sales.  | AWI predicts 'wool revival' ...Europe's winter freeze puts ...
Winning ways with wool, the Gill story
02 Feb 10 | THE year is 2001 and the Gill family – relative newcomers to the Australian superfine wool industry – have just produced the world’s finest bale of wool.
Europe's winter freeze puts wool garments on shopping lists
28 Jan 10 | A BITTER cold snap in the northern hemisphere has consumers once again reaching for a wooly garment, and has fashion buyers heralding the re-birth of the natural fibre despite recession woes still hanging in the air.  | Wool market closes 2009 up ...Wool prices climb but the bleat ...
AWI predicts 'wool revival' overseas
26 Jan 10 | TEXTILE innovations such as Merino Touch, lightweight wools and used and natural-look finishes will inspire a "wool revival" in the northern hemisphere, according to AWI.  | Wool rises to continue: RabobankWool market closes 2009 up ...
Wool prices climb but the bleat goes on
23 Dec 09 | ENDING internal bickering is the million-dollar challenge for the wool industry, reports The Australian Financial Review.  | Wool rises to continue: RabobankWool market closes 2009 up ...
Wool market closes 2009 up 115c/kg for year
22 Dec 09 | THE Australian wool market is on track to open the New Year on a high, after it closed for the 2009 calendar year 115 cents a kilogram dearer compared with January 1 2009.  | Single wool selling centre for ...Wool production steadies
Wool rises to continue: Rabobank
15 Dec 09 | THE recent lift in wool prices is likely to be sustained at these higher levels in the short to medium term, according to a recently released industry note from Rabobank.
Wool production steadies
14 Dec 09 | FOR the first time in nearly two years, wool production forecasts have not been revised downwards and there are signs in many states that sheep numbers are stabilising.
Single wool selling centre for southern Australia
10 Dec 09 | SOUTHERN wool growers selling centre options will be slashed to a single centre as of June 30 next year.
Time to lock in some wool price insurance
03 Dec 09 | MANY growers will wince, but cautious analysts with an eye on Australia’s soaring currency and volatile global economic conditions are suggesting growers book some insurance into their wool cheque and start locking into forward contracts.
AWI gets on with business
03 Dec 09 | AFTER one of the most unconfrontational Australian Wool Innovation annual general meetings in recent times, the question now is whether Australia's peak wool power can deliver what it has been given the benefit of the doubt on.
E-bale over and out
03 Dec 09 | OVER three decades after the first attempts were made to incorporate an electronic identification system into Australia’s wool bale warehousing system, the book has been closed on electronic bale development research.
Woolgrowers back the AWI board at AGM
27 Nov 09 | Australian Wool Innovation shareholders today have delivered a resounding vote of confidence in their industry leaders, re-electing Wal Merriman, Roger Fletcher and Chick Olsson to the board and voting to change the process of annual director elections.   | CommentsComments (4) | Tomorrow's sheep industry will ...Wool stabilises after last ... | SLIDESHOW: Naracoorte blue ribbon ...
Wool a natural carbon store
18 Nov 09 | Australian Wool Innovation's newly formed Wool Carbon Alliance has welcomed the Federal Government’s recognition of the positive role that farming and wool growing can play in the carbon cycle, and has brought forward new figures showing wool's important role in the carbon cycle.   | CommentsComments (2)
Gippsland wool man puts hand up
13 Nov 09 | THE Australian wool industry needs to unite and stop trading blows with itself, according to WoolProducers newest independent director hopeful Steven Harrison.
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