Australian Superfine Wool Growers' Association Inc.

PRESS RELEASE 

ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA 2011 WOOL AWARDS

Passion for Wool

Ermenegildo Zegna awards the winners of the Wool Awards for the best woollen fleeces of 2011 at the Four Seasons Hotel Sydney.

Sydney, 21 September 2011 – Paolo Zegna, President of the Ermenegildo Zegna Group will award the 9th edition of the Ermenegildo Zegna Vellus Aureum Trophy to the Hundy family from the Windradeen farm in New South Wales, Australia, who won with a score of 87.97 points for a 10.5 micron ultra-soft fleece. They will be awarded with a replica of the “Vellus Aureum” golden prize sculpture, exclusively created for Ermenegildo Zegna by the renowned Swiss sculptor, Mr. Not Vital, and with  750 grams of Gold.

Fleeces are judged on the criteria of fineness, weight, style, strength and evenness. The Windradeen farm already won the same trophy in 2010 setting new world record of 10.0 micron and also reached the 3rd place with another fleece in this year’s competition. The Gardiner family from the Warrameann farm in Victoria, Australia, won the 2nd place.

For the Ermenegildo Zegna Wool Trophy for Unprotected Fleeces, Paolo Zegna will award this recognition to The Oak Hills farm, who have improved their 3rd place in 2010, to win this year with a score of 95.2. The 2nd and 3rd places were respectively won by the Snowhill farm and the Glen Stuart farm, both from Tasmania where the Ermenegildo Zegna Wool Awards were established in 1963.

The competition is open to Australia and New Zealand wool growers, and fleeces are judged on the criteria of quality, weight, yield, trueness to type & bloom, conformity of length, evenness and excellence. Zegna is pleased to demonstrate its continued support for wool as a product of excellence, produced in both Australia and New Zealand, the top wool production countries in the world. The Zegna competitions have a long history in the wool world and the Zegna Wool Trophy will continue to be coveted by the world’s best wool growers.

“It is always an honour to give these awards out” – declared Paolo Zegna, President of the Ermenegildo Zegna Group. –“To prize the finest vellum for the past 9 years and the unprotected fleeces for the past 49 years is a message of how important the wool industry is, and how important it is for our Group to maintain extremely high qualitative standards of the raw materials.. I can confirm our commitment to supporting the research of the highest fineness of wool, one of the most significant raw materials of our production: superfine wool is a fundamental material in both the formal and upper casual lines of our collection.”

Our congratulations go to the winners and to all the entrants. Our judges advised that this year’s standards of entry were outstanding. We note with pleasure that the winners are drawn from New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, covering many wool growing areas.

The strong rise in auction prices in recent times is a significant incentive for wool growers to continue their work, aiming towards excellence of fibre. I am confident that the recent promotional investments made by AWI – the Australian Wool Innovation - will contribute the expansion, the appreciation and use and of this magnificent fibre.”

The Ermenegildo Zegna Wool Awards are run in association with the Australian Superfine Wool Growers Association. Only wool from non mulesed and non single penned sheep are allowed entry into the Wool Awards. All fleeces entered in the competition are purchased by the Zegna Group, beginning their long journey along the road towards the creation of the world’s finest quality menswear fabrics and garments produced under the Ermenegildo Zegna Group’s brands.

Ermenegildo Zegna has always believed, supported and invested in Superfine Wool from Australia, and believes that it has significantly contributed towards winning universal recognition, raising awareness and increasing consumer demand for wool, as the natural fibre of excellence.  

About Ermenegildo Zegna Group

The Ermenegildo Zegna Group is a leading luxury menswear brand and one of the most renowned businesses in Italy. Founded in 1910 in Trivero, in the Biella Alps, by the young entrepreneur Ermenegildo, whose vision was to ethically create the world’s finest textiles through innovation and sourcing the noblest fibers directly from their markets of origin, the company is managed today by the fourth generation of the Zegna family. Since the late 1980s, the company has implemented a comprehensive strategy of verticalization, creating a global luxury brand which now ranges from fabric to clothing to accessories, is focused on retailing, pioneering early entry in emerging luxury markets, BRIC and Asia in particular, and was the first luxury brand to open a monobrand store in China in 1991. 

Ermenegildo Zegna celebrated 100 years of excellence in 2010. Today there are over 560 Zegna stores (330 company-owned) in 87 countries around the world. The total Group revenues in 2010 reached € 963 million.

For further information, please contact:

Ermenegildo Zegna Australia Press Office 

Phone: (+61) 2 9356 6500

Email: patrick.esangga@zegna.com 

 


ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA 2011 WOOL AWARDS

Place Getters

ZEGNA TROPHY for unprotected fleeces

1st place -  95.2 points

Daryl and Irene Croake,“Oak Hills”, Pyramul NSW

2nd place - 94.0 points

Antony and Joan Gee, “Snowhill”, Avoca, TASMANIA

3rd place - 93.8 points

Allan and Carolyn Phillips, “Glen Stuart”, Deddington, TASMANIA

 

VELLUS AUREUM

1st place - 87.97 points

EA & JT Hundy, “Windradeen”, Pyramul NSW

10.5 mic -1.39kg

2nd place- 82.37 points

AR and AC Gardner, “Warrameann”, Penshurst  VICTORIA

11.3 mic - 0.79kg

3rd place - 82.28 points

AS & PA Hundy, “Windradeen”, Pyramul NSW

11.4 mic - 0.86kg


Photo Gallery from the 2011 Ermenegildo Zegna Wool Trophy Dinner

held on the 21st September 2011

 Photography by Brad Mawby

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Unprotected Winner Plate and Certificate 1.jpg

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 Room Set  Up VM

 Vellus Aureum Winner Trophy and Certificate

 Unprotected Winner Plate and Certificate

 Plates and Certificate

 Paolo Zegna with Croake placegetters

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Paolo Zegna with Hundy placegetters 1.jpg

Paolo Zegna with Gardner placegetters 1.jpg

Paolo Zegna with Gee Placegetters 1.jpg

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 Paolo Zegna with Phillips placegetters

 Paolo Zegna with Hundy placegetters

 Paolo Zegna with Gardner placegetters

 Paolo Zegna with Gee Placegetters

 Paolo Zegna with Andrew and Penny Hundy

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Kathy and Trevor Mibus 1.jpg

Allan and Carolyn Phillips, Samantha and Tim Marwedel 1.jpg

Craig Lawson, Victor Smythe and Walter Merriman 1.jpg

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 Trevor Mibus vote of Thanks

 Kathy and Trevor Mibus

 Allan and Carolyn Phillips, Samantha and Tim Marwedel

 Craig Lawson, Victor Smythe and Walter Merriman

 Fleece

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Indi Maini and Stuart McCullough 1.jpg

Mark and Sharon Grave 1.jpg

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 Floral

 Indi Maini and Stuart McCullough

 Mark and Sharon Grave

 Model and Paolo Zegna Prize Draw

 Models Rosemary and Kristy

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Paulina Gibson and Don Belgre 1.jpg

Tony de Pietra, Marissa de Pietra and Daniele Schneider 1.jpg

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 Nadia and Peter Brice

 Paolo Zegna

 Paulina Gibson and Don Belgre

  Tony de Pietra, Marissa de Pietra and Daniele Schneider

 Room Set Up


 2010 Ermenegildo Zegna Wool Awards

held on the 9th April 2010 at the Grand Hyatt, Melbourne

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Penny & Andrew Hundy accepting the Winning VA Prize for Ed & Jill Hundysm.jpg

Penny & Andrew Hundy with Paolo Zegna accepting the Winning Protected Trophysm.jpg

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Claire Schnitzerling and Margaret Dunn at the Zegna Awards Dinner 2010sm.jpg

Penny Hundy, Darryl Croake, Andrew Hundy and Irene Croakesm.jpg

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