The past year has certainly been challenging. While there have been some bright spots, overall, the New Zealand and Australian markets have been at levels we have not seen for many years. The oversupply of machinery through COVID, the end of the Instant Right of Scheme, dry conditions in many areas of Australia, and the impact of inflation, have all dampened customer demand. We have all worked hard to make the most of the current situation. We have reduced our stock levels significantly and been prudent about where we have spent money, and so overall our results are generally in line with what we set out to achieve. Your contribution to help make this happen is appreciated.
There are some green shoots starting to appear. The New Zealand market is showing signs of picking up supported by strong commodity prices, and recent much needed rainfall in Western and Southern Australia will help customer confidence. We are looking forward to the year ahead.
As a business, we know what we are good at and what we do well – we sell world-class machinery from our manufacturing partners. This is backed by the continued customer need for parts, service and advice from our great team of people.
That’s why in this issue of Over the Fence you’ll find an article on our Parts Distribution Centres and on some of our technicians who have been working across the business in different Harvest Centres on exchange! Of course there are plenty more articles for you to also enjoy.
Earlier this month we announced a change in structure that will take our after-sales focus to the next level, and I am really pleased that Rob Murphy will lead this team. He has established a lot of capability in his recent Retail leadership role and I am very confident he will bring a lot to this new trans-Tasman group position.
As a business, we do very well with customer support today, but we can’t rest. We want to continue to lift performance so existing and new customers are confident they can count on us. Having a senior leader now totally focused on after-sales will enhance the service and parts products we provide them. Using our SEEDX survey also contributes to informing
INSIDE
4 WHAT SETS US A-PART Customer Experience now part of the picture.
us where to focus our attention to make improvements. I am extremely confident that our people, parts and service will lead us successfully through our future.
We have a highly skilled workforce, and our investment in upskilling and bringing our apprentices and technicians through this training is vital to building our ability to service customers. The market is competitive, and we are always looking to recruit Service Technicians across the business. We currently have 19 open positions, 5 apprentice and 14 qualified technician roles. Most of our recruitment comes from local knowledge or personal contacts; it’s often about who you know! So, if you know of people in the industry who would like to work with the products we sell, please contact our P&C Business Partners for a confidential discussion. There is a referral bonus available also to anyone who nominates someone whom we employ.
Enjoy this edition of Over the Fence.
Thank you all for your support.
Richard
SAFETY MATTERS
A commitment to safety.
IN OUR REGIONS What’s been going on across the LP/CHC network.
Pam, Herby and South Island team members Phil Seaton, Hamish Wallace, Bede Prendergast and Chris Wilson at the Otago-Southland Rescue Helicopter open day, early July.
Proud to be the Platinum sponsor and partner of the Otago-Southland Rescue Helicopter – saving lives in our rural communities
WHAT SETS US A-PART
Is how we hold and manage our parts!
We have three distribution centres in Christchurch, Perth, and Melbourne, which allows us to manage inventory on both sides of the Tasman.
We can reach anywhere in New Zealand overnight from our Christchurch distribution centre; can support the East Coast of Australia in their major cities and regions; and can reach all four of our dealerships out of Perth with overnight consignments.
We review the inventory and stock on hand every day. Our distribution centres feed our network of dealerships, and we can restock these daily, giving us the highest possible availability in all the local areas to support our customers. We can react within the shortest possible timeframe, so operations do not have to stop!
We are there when needed without the lengthy wait. We air freight weekly into all of our distribution centre locations, so if there is demand, we can quickly and efficiently draw stock from our vast network of European suppliers.
CX IS NOW PART OF THE PUZZLE ..
PARTS FUN FACTS
HARVEST CENTRE NZ
AVERAGE NO. PARTS LINES ON HAND: AIR FREIGHT IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS: CHCH NUMBER OF CONSIGNMENTS COMBINED WEIGHT (T)
199 80 245 142 18 7.7
After a collaborative review process and valuable input from across the business, we’re pleased to announce that the SEEDX Parts Survey is now live and has been launched across New Zealand and Australia.
This marks the final stage in rolling out our transactional survey program under SEEDX, Landpower’s customer experience platform built around our CX values: Secure, Effortless, Engaged, and Dependable.
We began our SEEDX journey with the Service Survey in early 2024, going live in New Zealand by April and gradually introducing regions in Australia from June. The Sales Survey followed later in 2024, and now, with the introduction of the Parts Survey, we’re gaining complete visibility across our three core customer touchpoints.
These surveys are not about forms and numbers but about listening, learning, and improving. Every time customers share their feedback, we get a clearer view of what’s working and where we can improve.
How you can help:
If you’re involved in a parts transaction, please let the customer know they may receive a short survey and that their feedback is incredibly valuable. Their insights help us:
Understand what’s working – and what’s not
Resolve issues before they escalate
Recognise great service and top team members
Continuously improve how we work across the board
Ultimately, SEEDX is about keeping our promise “You can count on us” and proving that it’s more than just a tagline. It’s what we do every day.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to shaping the Parts Survey – now let’s make it count!
Customer Experience Survey WINNER
Chris Baartz (CHC Dalby) the latest Australian recipient of the six-monthly $2,000 customer experience participation draw.
LPNZ
LPAU PERTH (6K)
WE’RE CONSCIOUS ABOUT BETTER BUYING ...
TRAVEL IS TAKING OFF ...
We just launched Landpower and our company-owned CLAAS Harvest Centres business travel with Corporate Traveller.
With the goal of focusing on areas like travel and events, to tighten our spending where it makes sense, to provide detailed management reporting, and to maximise our TransTasman buying power by finding suitable suppliers to work across the whole company. As part of this project, we have spent time looking at the business processes and policies that sit alongside travel to make sure we are meeting our goal, and the following changes are what you can expect to see going forward:
New Travel Request Form
An updated Travel Request form has been launched under the Quick Links section on Harvest Hub. Anyone wanting to book travel for business reasons must complete this form.
The new form automates an approval workflow, reducing the email traffic that provides information to an Approval Manager to approve a travel request. Before completing this travel request, your travel should be discussed with your line manager.
The exception to this rule will be for major event or trainingrelated travel, where we will use a national coordinator to centralise travel requirements and they will communicate with you about your requirements when advised of an event.
FUELLING OUR FLEET ...
Quick Reference Guide
A one-page guide is available to help you understand the key messages that reflect the way we wish to travel. This is located on Knowledge Farm alongside a copy of the full Travel & Expense Policy here
Once the systems and processes are running well, we will provide access for managing local travel and a self-booking tool will be piloted for frequent travellers.
As part of any new implementation, we expect that there will be some continuous improvement. We are interested in hearing your feedback, so please email TravelFeedback@landpower.co.nz if there is anything you can suggest to streamline further the advancements we have made.
If you have any questions about what is being asked of you, or what information you need to provide, in the first instance please contact your national travel coordinators travel@landpower.com.au (Australia) or receptionnz@landpower.co.nz (New Zealand).
If you have been driving around our South Island CLAAS Harvest Centres, you will have noticed our new and upgraded onsite fuel tanks in Dunedin, Wanaka, Timaru, Ashburton and Christchurch.
Any Landpower or Harvest Centre diesel vehicle can refuel at our onsite tanks in the South Island, gaining access by swiping their new RFID Everlink fob. Entering your odometer reading, using the Everlink system, allows us to immediately close out workshop jobs. Transactions are directly available to administrators, we don’t have to wait for the end of the month of a fuel invoice any longer. It’s making it simpler for our teams.
If fuel is required outside of one of our regions where the tanks have been installed, the Allied Card provides competitive petrol pricing through its well-established Allied and Mobil fuel station network
In the North Island we’re making moves to replace Cardlink and Z-Cards with our Allied network ones. And shortly, we will begin the same rationalisation for onsite fuel efficiencies, that are enabling more attractive pricing and simple administration - the cost difference is compelling! We are also looking into how to transfer this to a personal proposition and have this as one of our employee benefits. Keep a watch out for more information as we progress this initiative …
Next cab off the rank ... working through our Australian fuel model.
NOT WASTING TIME ...
We currently spend more than $200,000 per year disposing of waste from our branches in New Zealand and this spend is with ~20 different suppliers.
The largest supplier for New Zealand, Waste Management has been approached to offer us a national deal for waste management and while we have been negotiating, we have found some interesting information.
The amount of wood waste we generate is significant with around 25% of total cost relating to disposing of wood waste. It’s difficult to compact and accessible re-cycling operations are long distances from most of our branches.
What is surprising is that we have limited visibility of how much waste we generate and when it’s generated. With Waste Management, we will get centralised records and reports to better monitor and manage our waste while also reducing costs.
KICKING OFF WITH CLAAS IN EUROPE
Companies that prioritise waste management and sustainability are often viewed more favourably by customers and business partners. Here’s what you can do to support good waste management practies:
Conduct a waste audit: What? Where? And how do you generate waste.
Promote waste reduction: reduce packing and promote resuable materials.
Recycle & Engage your teams in waste management initiatives.
Monitor and evaluate your waste effectiveness.
This will go a long way towards better managing our waste and identifying and applying best practices that align with our company’s values and goals across the business. it is a critical aspect of our commitment to sustainability, environmental protection, and corporate responsibility.
In early June, our Product Business Management team visited CLAAS, AMAZONE and GRIMME for the Product Annual meetings and the CLAAS Annual Season Kick-off.
This forms part of our annual product and marketing process, where we review the last twelve months of our operation and then look forward and plan for the coming year.
We visited our manufacturing partners’ factories, had a sneak peek into what product innovation, research and development was ahead for them individually. Whilst we cannot allude to all of that right now, and steal their thunder, what we saw was extremely pleasing and we are confident we are moving to a more simplistic and successful mix of products for the
CYBER CRIME
Eighty per cent of our team is now safer online, at work, and at home, thanks to our first cybersecurity training module!
Every day, ordinary people are targeted by scams at home and at work. Cyber training ensures that we keep our systems and our people safe by identifying key attributes of cyber threats. We can then protect the
business. Each of our suppliers is dedicated to continuing to build products that meet the demands of their customers in each country, that are equipped with the latest technology to increase on-farm efficiency.
The trip, which we are fortunate that CLAAS brings us across for, is always extremely valuable for our product teams. We don’t have the ability to have many face-to-face meetings with our suppliers on the other side of the world, and these meetings are vitally important for strengthening our relationships, seeing where they are heading, and aligning our product strategies with them.
We look forward to sharing more information with you all in due course.
business and our team against common threats, such as malicious emails and scams.
Landpower | CLAAS Harvest Centre and some of our suppliers have already been impacted by cyber-attacks. Just last week, thanks to this awareness, a member of our team alerted us to a supplier email thread that was potentially malicious, and we were able to jump on that activity right away.
Thank you all for completing the initial module. Keep an eye out as we plan to do more!
SAFETY MATTERS
Working in Confined Spaces
What happened
One of our dealerships was presented with a damaged AMAZONE Pantera sprayer tank, requiring the technician to enter the tank to undertake internal repairs.
The team quickly identified the risks of entering the tank (residual chemicals, fumes, lack of oxygen). Knowing they did not have the confined space training and capability within the team, they called to restrict anyone from proceeding and engaged an external service to complete the work.
What is a confined space?
A confined space is an enclosed or partly enclosed space with other features that combine to make it potentially dangerous to work in. For example:
Limited means of entry / exit making it hard to get in and out
Poor ventilation causing low oxygen levels
Contains toxic and harmful fumes and gases
It stores something that could crush or suffocate, like sands, grains or liquids. Examples of potential confined spaces on our work sites and in the agricultural machine sales and servicing industry are:
sprayer tanks, some seeder tanks and grain hoppers
storage vats, tanks and silos, trenches and pits
The Risks of working in confined spaces
Confined spaces are common in many industries and involve significant risks for people who need to work inside them. Working in a confined space can be fatal (it is quick and it is silent) - it’s as simple as that.
There are serious health and safety risks working in confined spaces. For example:
loss of consciousness, injury or death from contaminants in the air
suffocation caused by a lack of oxygen
fire or explosion from the ignition of flammable contaminants that can kill or cause serious injury
enhanced combustibility and spontaneous combustion
suffocation or crushing after being engulfed by loose materials stored in the space if you fall into it
Reference to fatal incidents in Agriculture
It’s not uncommon for incidents involving confined spaces to tragically result in single and sometimes multiple fatalities.
Other workers, unaware of the risks, can often enter a space to rescue a victim but are then also overcome by toxic fumes/gases and lack of oxygen.
Key Message for our pepole
DO NOT ENTER any type of tank or vessel you suspect may present a confined space risk
Do a risk assessment (Take 5 or Job Safety Analysis) of the required work and determine if the space you need to enter may be a confined space with associated high risks.
Use the Hierarchy of Controls to determine how to eliminate or reduce the risk
Only those trained in Confined Space Entry may do so, and only when working with others trained in the same
DO NOT proceed if the risks cannot be sufficiently controlled
Read the full Working in Confined Spaces
Safety Bulletin here.
It is important that we know how to get a hold of your family, or next of kin, should you be invovled in an emergency whilst going to, from, or during your time at work.
Please take the time to review and update your next of kin, or emergency contact in the New Zealand or Australian payroll systems or app. This will allow your manager to obtain these details immediately and contact your nearest and dearest. If you need assistance doing so please contact your national payroll administrator.
IN OUR REGIONS
New Zealand:
We are breaking ground on our newest future-focused dealership facility that will open its doors in the first half of 2026.
Herby has long believed in investing in this business, and this new site is not just an investment in infrastructure — it’s an investment in our people and the local community.
Spanning more than 10,000m², this new site will significantly expand our capacity to service modern, world-class machinery, offer our customers better visibility of our product ranges and access to a wider range of parts. Designed based on the successful blueprints of our Waikato and Bay of Plenty dealerships, this facility will feature:
A spacious, state-of-the-art workshop equipped with modern tooling and gantry systems for faster service and turnaround - essential during the critical peaks of the season.
A vastly expanded parts store (up to ten times larger than the current one) allowing us to hold over $2 million in inventory on site. Which ultimately allows us to have the parts closer to where the machines are working.
A dedicated 50-metre-long pole shed for covered storage of customer machinery, protecting key investments including our largest machines like CLAAS LEXION and JAGUAR harvesters.
Future-proof design features that allow the dealership to expand and grow along with our customers’ businesses and as we achieve our own market share growth ambitions with CLAAS, AMAZONE and GRIMME products.
By choosing to stay and grow in Feilding, we’re reinforcing our roots and reaffirming our commitment to supporting the rural sector. We remain firmly committed to Feilding and will continue to support regional initiatives such as Feilding Rural Day, local school and sports fundraiser events, and the broader rural community as a whole.
The new dealership, set for completion in the first half of 2026, will enable us to serve customers even more effectively while remaining a trusted part of the community fabric for decades to come.
None of this would have been possible without the hard work and dedication of the CHC Central Districts team, led by Jordan Law. It is their commitment and exceptional quality of service that have given us the confidence to invest in this major project.
A huge thank you to everyone who put in a tremendous amount of effort to make both the South Island Agricultural Field Days and Mystery Creek a showcase for the business.
New Zealand: Central Districts social stamina!
May-madness took the Central District team offsite for a bit of claybird shooting.
Then, quiety on trend, following the launch of the F1 movie, the Central Districts team decided to test their ‘Brad Pitt’ competency out on the track.
Karting Podium – 1st Ben, 2nd Blair and 3rd Joel
Eastern Australia:
A celebrated first anniversary
Twelve months ago, after a lot of planning, research, some long weekends and late nights, the CHC Dalby team were pleased to open the doors to the new Aftersales Centre at 7 Allen St on the Leichhardt Highway, in Goondiwindi.
As the team celebrated Goondiwindi’s first Birthday in June, it was a good time to get everyone together to review the challenges, celebrate the successes, and plan for the future.
At the start of this venture, it was crucial to have the support of influential local customers in the area.
The service support work of Kail and Kate Todd’s business “Future Ag Mechanical”, gave the business a great kickstart. (Pictured with Beth and Rick below)
Finding a suitable site and getting Beth Syme on board as the Parts and Service Coordinator, completed the team. And, just this month a new Service Technician, Travis Yeo joined the Goondiwindi team to provide further local customer support.
Supported by various members of CLAAS Harvest Centre Dalby, the business has delivered better parts and service support to existing local customers and grown with many new ones.
Congratulations to all of the CHC Dalby and Goondiwindi team who have all pulled together to make its first year of operation a success.
Setting Sail for Australia ... 25 years ago!
Ian Hockaday (LPAU) and his family relocated from Zimbabwe to Australia in 2000 to begin a new chapter. No stranger to CLAAS, Ian grew up working in his family’s CLAAS dealership before joining the CLAAS and Renault tractor importer in Zimbabwe.
Since joining Landpower 25 years ago, Ian has held a variety of roles, including workshop technician, warranty specialist, workshop and logistics manager, and, more recently, supporter of the retail dealer network. With his extensive experience, it’s not uncommon to hear colleagues say, “I think that’s a Hocka’s question,” when searching for that elusive answer.
Reflecting on his journey, Ian says what he has enjoyed most since joining Landpower is the sense of belonging and the family feel that the company has fostered over the years. The , welcoming environment and the camaraderie among team members have made every day enjoyable and rewarding. Ian initially came to Landpower seeking stability during civil unrest in Zimbabwe. Wanting to stay connected to the CLAAS brand he enjoys, he reached out to Herby and made the leap, a decision he’s glad he made.
What has surprised Ian most over the years is the incredible people he has had the opportunity to work alongside. He has found many friends along the way, which has made the journey not just professionally fulfilling, but personally meaningful as well. Outside of work, Ian enjoys hitting a golf ball now and again and finds adventure motorbike riding to be a great way to unwind and embrace new experiences.
Looking back over the past 25 years, Ian has witnessed significant changes in the business - the company’s name change from Farmrite to Landpower - to the impressive growth of the CLAAS and AMAZONE brands. Seeing these brands develop into what they are today has brought many memorable occasions and has united people across the network, making the years feel much shorter than they have been.
It has been a memorable journey, full of great people and wonderful milestones shared along the way. It truly has made the 25 years feel like they have flown by, with more to come.
EA EVENTS: From the right — Gippsland, Goondiwindi, Farmfest & Hort Connections
Western Australia:
The team in Western Australia has been forming quietly but consistently over the last six months. So, let’s find out a little more about Tania Gleeson, who moved across to Perth to join the LPAU team as Support Administration Manager.
Five minutes with Tania Gleeson
Hailing internally from CHC Gippsland, where she had been part of the team since 2015, Tania moved to Perth at the beginning of 2025 with her familyhusband Sean, and two children Miles 16 and Charlie 11 years old.
The reason why we moved out over to Perth was for this role, as well as my mum and sister both live over here, so I thought it would be good to rekindle my relationship with both of them. My husband’s also got a sister and a few nieces and nephews here too.
Everyone has been so welcoming, not just work colleagues but everyone in the community.
The kids have settled in to school, they have made a few friends. The sporting community has been easy to become a part of, and we have enjoyed feeling part of that community like when we were back in Gippsland.
When I’m not at work, I like to go to the gym, go for walks, bike rides, bush walks camping on weekend and anything outdoors with the family. I like to watch my daughter play netball, living my netball career through my daughter, and my son plays tennis and golf.
The best part about my role is knowing that I’ve helped other employees, with the too hard basket tasks.
I love the sales side of my job, working with 4 different branches, get their orders through and make it seamless so then they can get out there and sell more machines.
THE WESTERN WHEAT HIGHWAY
Western Australia is an area that we are focused on as a business. Over the last twelve months we have invested significantly in our buildings, our structure, in resource, and in supporting activities to allow us to increase our footprint. Yet, a lot of us are unsure of why there is such a large opportunity for growth available to us there. Western Australia is the home of the wheat highway, the gateway to feeding the planet. We have provided some information on what that means for us below, that might interest you to know!
Western Australia is the largest territory in Australia by land mass. For comparison, it covers the entire Eastern Coast of America. Although extremely large, it is populated by only 3 million people, mainly in coastal areas. That means there is an excess of land to dedicate to agriculture and mining.
Wheat and grain is a $5.5 billion industry, and Western Australia produces 46% of Australia's wheat and grain market for export. Eastern Australia's production covers the Australian domestic market, including a drought holding. Eastern Australia does not often dip into the export market, so Western Australia can concentrate solely on export markets and focus on being the agricultural powerhouse that feeds the world.
Western Australia is serviced by four ports, has 100 receival sites for storage, and has invested in continuous grain transfer. Moving vast quantities via ship worldwide is their specialty. Grain can reach international markets before global demand shifts are felt. With the ability to load 2000 tons per hour - equivalent to 160 million loaves of bread per hour - movement from field, storage, to ship, is minimised. During a record harvest, they can still mobilise to meet consistent demand, providing instantaneous delivery.
The sprawling wheat fields are designed for extensive production and maximum efficiency, so there is a lot of new machinery and after-sale support that is required in the region. So much so, that we have not even begun to tap into the full potential of this market.
VALUES SHOUT OUTS
In it together
Reaching out across the network for help was the motivation for Liam, Ben and Cam to exchange workplaces for the quieter winter period in New Zealand.
All three normally work out of the Yaldhurst site for the Christchurch-based retail team. Ben and Cam qualified in the past two months, and Liam is in his last year of his apprenticeship.
They all jumped at the opportunity to help the team across the Tasman get through some work and were eager to further their CLAAS experience working in a different location.
• Cam McCarthy
Started in CHC Northam and then went to CHC Katanning, working an eight week period in Australia before heading home to New Zealand, 10 June.
• Ben Santy
Spent three months working at CHC Dalby, from late April and returned home, 18 July.
• Liam Barnhill
Worked at CHC Esperance, having departed mid-May and arrived home earlier this month.
The Australian teams have made them feel very welcome, some a little too welcome that there was talk they might not return! But, a huge thanks goes out to the guys, their team, and their Managers for being able to pivot when the call goes out.
Few companies in New Zealand can offer an exchange programme like this. What makes us special is our ability to grow and develop our teams through this type of opportunity provided by our diverse footprint.
Keep Growing
CLAAS connect migration champion training
I’m sure you are all well aware that our CLAAS connect journey has just begun. We trained our first CLAAS connect migration champions last week, and we’re off to Australia next week to hold our two champion sessions in Melbourne. These champions will lead our highest priority customers through their migration to CLAAS connect to ensure that their telematics data is transitioned successfully before harvest commences and these older platforms cease to exist at the end of the year.
Service Technician training
We’re more than half way through this years training calendar. So here is a quick snapshot of a few of the different sessions we’ve held across both sides of the Tasman.
CLAAS Greenline – 2 x sessions ran early April at the Kirwee South Island Field Days site.
CLAAS Steering Systems – 1 session ran mid-April also at the Kirwee South Island Field Days site.
CLAAS JAGUAR 500/502: Stage 1 – 2 sessions ran early and mid-May at the LPNZ Yaldhurst site.
Service Training on GPS and Steering Systems, in Sunny Gippsland, East of Melbourne in Lardner Park.
WELCOME ABOARD
New Starters
Joel Jones, Service Technician, CHC - Central Districts
Jeremy Whata, Service Technician, CHC - Waikato
Cam Roberts, Service Technician, CHC- Northam
Jaine Duncan, Senior Business Analyst, LPNZ
Nick Potbury, Sales Representative, CHC- Dalby
Yash Singh, Warehouse Assistant, LPAU
Jo Orr, Parts Manager & Administrator, CHC - Geraldton
Henry Küehling, Product Specialist Field Technology, LPAU
Vanessa McManus, Commercial Analyst, LPNZ
Bruce Reid, Sales Support, CHC - Southland
Mark Borsnahan, Service Technician, CHC - Taranaki
Andy Fraser, Sales Representative, CHC - Gore
Elly Barnes, Senior Project Manager, LPNZ
James Matthews, Technical Specialist Greenline & Material Handling, LPAU
Calvin Smith, Service Technician, CHC - Waikato
GRADUATIONS
Congratulations on completing you apprenticeship
Ben Santy, CHC - Canterbury (May 2025)
Kallum Murphy, CHC - Northam (June 2025)
Ethan Gardyne, CHC - Southland (March 2025)
LONG SERVICE
A huge thank you to the following team members
25 years
Ian Hockaday, Logistics & Multi-Franchise Manager, LPAU
20 years
Matt Smith, Workshop Foreman, LPAU
10 years
Wayne Wade, Service Technician, CHC - Otago
Zak Russell, Service Technician, CHC - Otago
Bruce Rankin, Branch Manager, CHC - Bay of Plenty
Tania Gleeson, Support Administration Manager - LPAU
Todd Fletcher, GM Retail North Island, LPNZ
Cushla Hannah, Accounts Assistant, LPNZ
Jason Hutchings, Workshop Support, CHC - Waikato
5 years
Alex Denby, Parts Manager, CHC - Bay of Plenty
Josh Milne, Service Technician, CHC - Southland
Dale Guest, Sales Representative, CHC - Esperance
Michael Frost, Apprentice Service Technician - Canterbury
Pauline Graewe, Parts Manager (maternity leave), CHC - Gippsland
Van Dong Dong, Warehouse Assistant, LPAU
Bruce Rankin (10 years)
Bruce Rankin joined the company as a spritely, enthusiastic 37-year-old ten years ago. He is still as sharp, energetic, and committed (as well as looks the same) as the day he started, in 2015.
Cam McCarthy, CHC - Canterbury (April 2025)
Nick Harris, CHC - Esperance (June)
Jason Hutchings (10 years)
NOTICEBOARD
CONGRATULATIONS!
In 2005 as a young Apprentice, James Harrison, commenced with CLAAS in the UK.
20 years later the Geraldton based, Branch Operations Manager is celebrating his two decade assocation with the brand and eight years working for Landpower and CLAAS Harvest Centre.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Ben Duxfield (Apprentice Service Technician, CHC — Central Districts) & his wife, Courtney, had a baby girl on 13 May. Baby Girl’s name is Leighton.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Joel Jones (Service Technician, CHC — Central Districts) & his partner, Kendall, had a baby girl on 16 May. Baby Girl’s name is Josie and she weighed 9lb 2oz on arrival.
RYLEE’S NEW ARRIVAL!
We are thrilled to share the wonderful news that Rylee Reeve (CHC - Gore, Parts Interpreter & Administration Support) welcomed a beautiful baby girl into the world!
Isla-Marie Tegan Sisley arrived on 10 April, weighing 9lb 10oz.
From all of us here at Landpower, congratulations!
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