AWB limited. Australia’s biggest wheat producer and exporter is now hell bent on checking all the free bad publicity that it’s been getting for alleged involvement in Iraq’s oil for food program. The result you can experience as advertisements in major Australian morning newspapers. And AWB is not blowing all its trumpet out there, it’s simply saying that it has a wonderful 65 years of history exporting the best of Australian wheat.
Earlier an inquiry was set up, called Cole inquiry which was headed by Judge Terence Cole is trying to find out whether there existed any direct correlation between the sold wheat to Saddam Hussain’s regime and AWB key business managers. To be specific it was as $300 million question.
In the advertisements that were published in major metropolitan newspapers AWB has asked its farmers, customers and shareholders to ‘understand’ ‘as the company is going through a difficult period.’
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