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Bendigo Bank makes me feel like my business matters because they make us feel that we're important. Professionalism, everything that they've done demonstrates to us that we matter.

My name's Wayne Squire, managing director of Plinius Engineering. Plinius Engineering is a structural steel company. Started out in the mid '50s doing small engineering, wrought iron gates and fences. It's evolved now into larger projects, structural steel, stadiums, schools, hospitals, that sort of thing. Bendigo Bank, they have everything in place, the solution for everything we need, and we've done from equipment finance to expansion of buildings, company credit cards, to payroll, to overdrafts. Hasn't been a, "No, you can't do this." There's always been a way to do this, and that's the difference.

There's a few challenges that this industry has, and going through those challenges and meeting those commitments, having Bendigo Bank behind you to enable you to do that is important. We can walk into the office and talk to them directly, and they know what's going on with our business and they have the same forward vision for us as what we have. I love the fact that they make my job a lot easier and less stressful. I can focus on the future. I can focus on the now, and I've got people that have got my back. They've never let us down once.

One of the things that Bendigo did for us was they pre-approved for the future. We've got pre-approval on equipment. That's been fantastic. That's been a game changer for us as well. Where we were once upon a time, a small little business, hammering out steel on an anvil and drilling holes. Now we're up there with the leaders in the industry and with the full support of Bendigo Bank. It wouldn't have happened without them.