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Supply Circles: Building a global supply chain from Tasmania with Adam Blake, Joint Chief Executive, Blundstone Australia

In this episode, host James Scotland ask Adam Blake: ‘How do we, in Australia, build resilient and sustainable supply chains in and from Australia’.

Blundstone Australia is a 150-year, family-owned, Hobart-based, globally-successful boot and apparel manufacturer. The company sells over 3 million pairs of boots annually to multiple markets in over 70 countries. It has a well-structured brand story and complex supply chain across the world.

James and Adam address many meaty topics in this wide-ranging and insightful conversations including:

• Achieving successful rapid international growth using innovative business design and organisational structures.
• Breaking all the rules to achieve stunning global reach and success from a traditional Tasmanian manufacturing business.
• Redesigning the business to become truly consumer-centric.
• Managing seasonal global demand, highly-variable supply requirements and ‘lumpy’ cash flow challenges.
• The excitement of ever-increasing Black Friday 4-day online sales, and why not to visit the Distribution Centre.
• The lessons of ESG, the digitalisation of the business, implementing new ERP systems, managing global pandemics and riding the roller coaster of constant rapid growth.
• The future of the business and the challenges ahead.
• Sponsoring V8 supercars and the Hobart Stadium.
• And much more...

Adam is a leading global supply chain and brand design specialist, and an engaging and insightful conversationist. This is an episode not to be missed.