Saturday 11 May 2013

Casino Beef Week tarnishes its own brand


How does a Northern Rivers festival which has been in existence for thirty-one years this month tarnish its brand?

By continuing to allow this sponsor for Casino Beef Week:


Having Stuart George as President of Beef Week and chair of its promotions committee at the same time he is employed by coal seam gas exploration and mining company Metgasco as its Community Relations Manager is a distinctly odd look, given this company has been widely rejected by Northern Rivers residents and the farming community.

This rejection appears to include a majority of the good people of South Casino according to a report in the Richmond River Express Examiner on 1 May 2013:

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