Dubbo entrepreneur and two-times Fast 100 lister Juliet Duffy is moving to Wagga Wagga, where she will head up the Riverina city office of her company EnviroScience Solutions.
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But the business's headquarters will remain at Dubbo, where she founded the hazardous materials and environmental management consultancy more than a decade ago, she reports.
"Dubbo is still head office, so I'll be back and forwards to Dubbo, but pretty much we move around everywhere," she said.
Ms Duffy, the 2018 Regional Woman of the Year, said her move had been brought about by the departure of the Wagga manager, and being unable to fill the key vacancy before the world found itself in the grips of the coronavirus pandemic.
"He's gone back to agriculture, so I knew that was going to be a hard position to fill so went down there for the short-term thing for three or four months and didn't find any suitable applicants on the first round, and then COVID hit," she said.
"We were a bit unsure economy-wise so to put someone in that higher sort of position, we were a bit risk-averse, which is pretty typical of the female business person I think.
"So then it was like, I'll just stay down here while this all blows over with COVID but that's going to be a bit longer than we thought.
"So I've made the decision, there's a lot of opportunities down there as well."
Dubbo is still head office, so I'll be back and forwards to Dubbo...
- Juliet Duffy
From starting the business, then named Regional Enviroscience, in her rental-property garage, Ms Duffy has built the venture up to have sites at Dubbo, Wagga and Tamworth.
The rapid rise saw the business named a finalist on the 2017 and 2018 Australian Financial Review's Fast 100, a ranking of average revenue growth across four years.
The organisation employs "between 20 and 30" people and its director has her eye on future opportunities.
"I'm hoping with the Wagga area, and that's part of my move down there to that southern area is to build that up and to start to move to regional Victoria as well," Ms Duffy said.
The champion for regional development named reconnecting with family and friends, as well as the lifestyle as some of the highlights of her time at Dubbo.
"I think just living in the country, the ease of doing business," Ms Duffy said.
"Most people in business out here I've found particularly supportive.
"So we assist each other, we look out for each other, we're looking after staff, we want to keep people here, we look at opportunities, we look at teaming up for projects, and supporting each other."
Faye Wheeler
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I have been a journalist for more than a decade and in that time I have been keeping Daily Liberal readers up to date about issues affecting them and what's happening in their community. Throughout my career I have covered a range of rounds and most recently I have been focusing on the business round.
