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    Strong prices bolster PGG-Wrightson merger

    22.10.05


    Strong product prices were assisting in the bedding down of the newly merged PGG-Wrightson, interim managing director Baird McConnon told the annual meeting in Dunedin yesterday.

    McConnon said after the meeting that rural supply stores had been busy in recent weeks, a sign that clients appeared to be giving the company the benefit of time before judging its success or failure.

    The focus had been on ensuring the merged entity retained its strength, with minimal impact on the business and none on clients.

    "If we succeed with our clients, we will succeed with our business."

    McConnon expected the company to vacate Wrightson's Porirua head office by next March.

    The corporate office is moving to Christchurch and account processing to offices in Napier and Dunedin.

    He said it was too early to say how many of the 2700 staff inherited with the merger would keep their jobs, and added it was premature to judge which of the 20 South Island centres where both companies had rural supply stores would close.

    A 100-day schedule has been adopted to bed in the merged company and create a divisional business structure which utilises the entity's size and strength, as well as a district management system which gives clients access to decision-makers.

    McConnon said the proposed structure adopted the best elements of the way PGG and Wrightson previously operated.

    PGG-Wrightson will operate six divisions - livestock, wool, rural supplies, finance, real estate and seed and grain - with three business units: Agri-Feeds, which imports and distributes animal feed and animal health products; Agriculture New Zealand Training, a private rural training organisation; and Irrigation and Pumping.

    It has also created a joint venture with specialist Merino wool marketing company, New Zealand Merino. A remit to increase directors' fees from $400,000, previously paid to PGG's eight directors, to $875,000 for PGG-Wrightson's 12 directors, was passed without dissent.

    Earlier, the former chief executive of PGG, Hugh Martyn, said it achieved a 6 per cent increase in sales, breaching the $300 million mark for the first time.

    The $17 million tax-paid profit was down $750,000 on the previous year, due in part to the poor performance of its Irrigation and Pumping division.

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    PGW has been one of the few companies not to suffer much of a "correction" in the last week, listed at 2.16 and now at 2.14.
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    Watch out for the BIG improvement to come when a few zillion chickens are slaughtered and the European public go off chicken meat etc. Watch our little wooly muttons and scraggy beefs diappear across the water to fill the gap.

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    I wonder if any institutions are buying up this stock? SP is starting to lift off. Perhaps index funds are buying in.

    Wow - what a day...the stock surged to a high of $2.45, before backtracking a bit...and there was NO NEWS. I think I'll hold on this one a bit longer!
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    Somebody is buying up big on this company today great volume. Cant be on the back of the bird flue scare still who is complaining. macdunk

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    quote:Originally posted by duncan macgregor

    Somebody is buying up big on this company today great volume. Cant be on the back of the bird flue scare still who is complaining. macdunk
    That's good.

    I got some a few days ago at 2.30
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    I've been looking at getting into this stock for a while..

    i've obviously been looking for too long as its ralled 12% in a week.

    I guess its quite tightly held and as soon as somebody wants vol...price goes up.
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    There has been heavy selling of PGW since the 18th january, when the Aon insurance announcement came out. Closed at $1.96.

    Rural seems to be out of favour at the moment.
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    Have been out for a wee while.
    Farming out of favour
    Horticulture(here in HB) really struggling - will impact on W&K
    Dry weather and so on
    Ongoing increasing costs esp fuel and power and so the list goes on
    Plus restructuring within the co.


    Will look again when things change.

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    PGW has been in a downtrend for about 3 months, so far. The previous uptrend ended with a nice clear "V" reversal and most any trend indicator would have got you out fairly shortly thereafter. Note how the OBV (On Balance Volume) indicated a "Sell" weeks before any of the other 3 indicators shown here were triggered. This is exactly what "leading" indicators are supposed to do - provide early notice of trend weakness.


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