<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9950cd70-ddf2-4d8d-b294-84b3ba284045/44E0D848-5D4E-4733-AD2D-436BAD94D0C1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory10n.htm" href="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory10n.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory10n.htm"><P>WHEN the King Valley Vignerons and the Alpine Valley Vignerons joined forces to develop a new strategy for selling their grapes, they probably did not envisage the early success they are now tasting.</p> <P>The two organisations have formed a single marketing group called Wine Grapes of Australia-Victoria Ltd, and board member Michael Freudenstein is pleased with results so far.</p> <P>"<B>When it comes to selling grapes, there is strength in numbers,</B>" said Mr Freudenstein, “and we have been able to bring new purchasers into the region from interstate.</p> <P>"<B>These businesses wouldn’t normally deal with individual growers, but because there is now a single point of contact, and because they have tested the market and are pleased with what they’ve seen, they are coming back for more, and we have already attracted some seven year buyers. </B></p> <P><B>"<B>We did our research to find the most appropriate model to market the fruit from the two regions, and we decided that it was best to operate with Wine Grapes of Australia.</B></B></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/44E0D848-5D4E-4733-AD2D-436BAD94D0C1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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