{"id":418,"date":"2021-09-28T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nz.coop\/?p=418"},"modified":"2023-05-09T19:45:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T07:45:04","slug":"co-op-leader-conversations-rob-sharkie-ruralco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nz.coop\/co-op-leader-conversations-rob-sharkie-ruralco\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-op Leader Conversations: Rob Sharkie, Ruralco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this series, we get to know our co-operative leaders. During the first few weeks of the August 2021 lockdown,&nbsp;we spoke with<strong>&nbsp;Rob Sharkie, Group CEO of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ruralco.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruralco<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;about the co-operative; the current challenges they face and how they&#8217;re combating these; engagement with their customers\/members; and how they are future proofing themselves (particular with Covid in the mix).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruralco has a long history of being experts in agriculture and ensuring NZ farming families have the services and solutions they need to excel.&nbsp;Rob has a wealth of knowledge around the sector and the key to a successful co-operative.&nbsp;<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Have a watch below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Co-op Leader Conversation with Rob Sharkie, CEO of Ruralco\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HzFOW0BKP2A?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this series, we get to know our co-operative leaders. We recently spoke with Rob Sharkie, Group CEO of Ruralco about the co-operative; the current challenges they face and how they&#8217;re combating these; engagement with their customers\/members; and how they are future proofing themselves (particular with Covid in the mix).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nz.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nz.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nz.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nz.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nz.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nz.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nz.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nz.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nz.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nz.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}