‘I am thrilled to be awarded the COSBOA Small Business Champion award. I’m passionate about small business and seeing their futures protected.’
The CEO of Master Grocers Australia – MGA – Jos de Bruin, has been named COSBOA’s 2016 Small Business Champion at the Vodafone National Small Business Summit.
Jos was presented his award by Kate Carnell, Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman – a respected member of the small business community.
Paul Nielsen, Chairman of COSBOA, bestowed the honour to Jos for his dedication to small business and his work surrounding competition policy, in particular section 46, The Effects Test.
Paul said, ‘Jos is most worthy of the accolade of the COSBOA Small Business Champion for 2016 for the terrific work he did in marshaling 23 industry associations, representing 900,000 businesses, and other interested parties, together with government, to discuss the most necessary changes to competition policy recommended in the Harper Review.
‘The implications of the changes to section 46 cannot be understated and will have far reaching effects for small business over the next 20 years.
‘Jos works tirelessly to bring together the interest groups. COSBOA and small business owe him a great debt of gratitude.’
Section 46, if enacted, will assist the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission – ACCC – to act quicker and regulate the behaviour of dominant businesses, which is to the detriment of the market.
Like COSBOA, Jos believes in a level playing field for businesses in Australia, which allows small businesses to compete with big businesses and in a fair environment.
Speaking about his award, Jos said, ‘I am thrilled to be awarded the COSBOA Small Business Champion award. I’m passionate about small business and seeing their futures protected. I hope all the work I and the businesses and associations I’ve worked with on the Effects Test are enacted upon sooner rather than later.’
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