LGP experienced a boom in sales since the pandemic began.. Chief operating officer Paul Long said the trend was being driven by a range of social and economic factors stemming from the health crisis and not necessarily by a spike in patient numbers.
"I think COVID has put pressure on supply chains, so companies that have been importing products from outside Australia, and particularly from Canada ... have seen some challenges, with some outages of product," he said.
"There's also been this feel of 'let's support locally grown, let's support Australian business', so we've benefited from that throughout COVID and seen an uplift during the last two to three months.
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