LambEx history highlighted by WAMMCO
WESTERN Australia’s largest lamb exporter WAMMCO International has played an integral part in LambEx, since the very first event in 2010. Almost a decade later, and WAMMCO remains a key supporter as a major event partner at LambEx 2018, which is set to return to Perth later this year on August 5-7. WAMMCO director Dawson Bradford was the inaugural LambEx Chairman in 2010, saying the event was initially created to help the company celebrate 10 years of operation. “WAMMCO was the instigator, we started discussing how we could celebrate a decade of WAMMCO and it just grew from there,” he said. “We then got in touch with event organiser Esther Price (now Jones), and the idea snowballed. “It then grew into a state event, and before we knew it, a national event. “I’m very proud to have it return to WA, it’s a great event and a great occasion, and WAMMCO are very proud to be a major event partner at LambEx 2018.” Mr Bradford, who is a LambEx 2018 Organising Committee Member, said the 2010 event had “just over” 500 delegates, including 50 from interstate. “It was initially a very hard sell to get industry in particular interested but a Federal Government grant made a big difference,” he said. “We had a vision of what we wanted to do, to celebrate the prime lamb industry, and it all...
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