Dubbo needs to be the best it can be

HOW do we ensure Dubbo is the best it can be, socially, environmentally and economically – the best possible triple bottom line?

Take Fletcher International Exports.

It’s one of the nation’s most successful agribusinesses yet the owners and senior staff live and work in Dubbo.

Fletcher’s supports Dubbo Photo News each and every week, not blowing its own trumpet, but by sponsoring our Dubbo Works’ section which highlights the enormous opportunity to have a more laid-back regional lifestyle and a rewarding career at the same time.

That’s because the Fletcher family wants to see a town their families can live in and enjoy, a thriving regional hub that offers most of the comforts of metropolitan living without the disadvantages.

It’s a company that’s investing in Dubbo for the longer term, and we’re so lucky to have a company that employs so many people from those in senior executive roles right down to school leavers and people with no work history at all.

Then there are smaller businesses like The Book Connection.

Despite the dire predictions in recent times about bookshops suffering from the juggernaut of online shopping, Dave Pankhurst has taken the business from strength to strength in the city’s CBD and advertises with Dubbo Photo News week in, week out.

That advertising works and The Book Connection is loved by generations of locals.

In turn, that advertising revenue enables us to provide the city’s favourite newspaper free of charge each and every week.

Sometime later this year the paper stock we print on is expected to rise by 30 percent and that’s a cost that will be difficult to absorb.

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