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MGA can report that with COVID-19’s ever changing restrictions and the lockdowns proving challenging for members, supplier partners and the wider industry gathering together in early in 2022 for the MGA GALA Golf Day, was a welcomed event.
The inaugural 2022 Rod Allen Memorial Golf Day was held on the 25 February at the Greenacres Golf Club, Kew, Victoria. This day honours Rod Allen, a prominent Victorian Independent Grocery and Liquor retailer and long serving MGA Board Director (20yrs) and its President (16yrs).
Rod sadly passed away on the 19 September 2019 and led MGA’s Board of Directors to inspire and transform the MGA from a Victorian state-based employer organisation, with 375 members in 2005, into the high-profile national industry employer organisation we know today with over 2650 members.
This year’s event raised over $19,960.00 which was donated to the PANCARE Foundation, one of Australia’s leading charities committed to raising awareness, supporting families and funding research into upper GI cancers including pancreatic, liver, stomach, biliary and oesophageal cancers.
A big thank you to the MGA GALA Committee led by George Kovits MGA and supported by Mark Paladino MGA, Michael Potenza Browns Family Wines, Simon Archer TWE, Peter Wagner ALM AND Helen Maxwell Ritchie’s for all their hard work in making the event the success that it was with over 130 golfers participating.
Thank you to our GALA Committee Patron Fed Harrison who never fails to be passionate about the prosperity of the independent food, grocery and liquor industries.
