FESPA BBQ
Fespa Aust hosts BBQ Around 60 members of Australia’s wide format printing industry recently attended an annual Fespa Australia BBQ on the banks of the Yarra in Melbourne. The BBQ event has been running for at least 30 years and was organised by Fespa Australia president Nigel Davies, and was sponsored by Esko, HVG Graphics Media, Spicers and Kissel + Wolf. The event drew a strong crowd with all attendees having the opportunity to enjoy a sit down catered BBQ dinner and dessert by the river at the Yarra-Morrell Landing in South Yarra. Davies said it was a wonderful opportunity to bring together the diverse industry. “We were really happy with the turnout with people from all parts of industry attending,” Davies said. “Life-long friendships start at these events and Fespa Australia wants to bring back the community and fun in our diverse industry. “It was great to see our Fespa board member Ben Isdale, an apparel decorator, deep in conversation with Mick Harrold, a Sign Association board member and specialist sign installer. They operate in completely different parts of the industry but within minutes of introducing themselves realised that they had many things in common in other areas of business and life.” The BBQ kicked off at 5.30pm and continued well past the scheduled finish time of 8.30pm, until late into the evening.
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(l-r) Scott Thompson (Esko) and Nigel Davies (Fespa Australia)
(l-r) Peter Charlton (Alloys) and Brett Burns (Ricky Richards)
(l-r) Alistair Smith (HVG) and Mark Brooks (Fespa Au board member)
(l-r) Ron Gottlieb (Ricky Richards) and Nigel Spicer (Cactus Imaging)
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