News Articles for Craig Mostyn Group

The state government has quashed industry speculation it is looking to offload operation of a prison abattoir south of Perth.

A rendering plant behind Perth Airport critical to the state's meat industry has undergone a $20 million upgrade to boost capacity and improve its environmental credentials.

A third of this year's winners were WA companies, making it the state's best showing since the program began in 2019.

WA's oldest businesses focus on their strengths rather than scale.

Investing in abattoir capacity and new facilities in WA may offer upside, but the reality is more challenging for those that can't scale up.

Family-owned agribusiness group Craig Mostyn has completed a $25 million expansion of its Linley Valley Pork facility, upgrading processing and cold chain capacity to meet export demand.

After several barnstorming years for the commodity markets that fuel WA's economy, headwinds buffeting most sectors are growing.

King Charles III road-tested a few WA wines in Canberra and big buyers got a taste of the latest produce made for market in Perth.

The state government is sounding out abattoirs to support South West farmers who will lose the service of the last big processor they could access locally.

WA's beef industry lobby group has decried the state's processing industry ‘monopoly' after paddock-to-plate farmers in the South West lost access to the last large abattoir servicing their needs.

Capacity constraints at one of the last abattoirs offering contract kills have left WA's independent meat industry at risk of collapse.

A Pilbara cattle station will build a 10,000-head feedlot in a move it expects to bolster the region's status as a global premium boxed Wagyu beef supplier.

WA livestock processor V&V Walsh has officially opened its $50 million three-storey cold store facility, adding to its expansion Bunbury operations.

A panel of business leaders has weighed in on how to tackle the major challenges facing Western Australia, including labour shortages and artificial intelligence.

WA beef wholesaler V&V Walsh has inked a $40 million memorandum of understanding with a Chinese trade group to boost its supply of cattle.

Mark Beyer and Nadia Budihardjo discuss WA business dynasty Craig Mostyn Group.

The family-owned WA business shares some of Wesfarmers' corporate DNA, which helps explain its longevity.

Zenith Insurance Services, Dardanup Butchering Co, Austral Pool Solutions, Omni Dental and Forpark Australia were among numerous private WA companies to change hands late last year.

Agribusiness giant Craig Mostyn has backed Fremantle-based location and sensing data company Xsights, a finalist in tonight's Innovator of the Year Awards.

Austral Fisheries' journey is one of adaptation to global forces.

Craig Mostyn Group will acquire full ownership of V&V Walsh next week, five years after the two Western Australian family-owned agribusinesses struck their first deal.

Border closures have made it hard for WA agribusinesses to find workers.

Family-owned Craig Mostyn Group has sold its Tasmanian-based rock lobster business CMT to the South Australian Lobster Company for an undisclosed sum.

Bacon from Perth, coffee from Broome, pork from Fremantle, and nougat from the Swan Valley have all claimed awards at the 2019 Sydney Royal Fine Food Show's Taste of Excellence event.

SPECIAL REPORT: BGC Australia and Perron Group are going through changes that all family-owned businesses face, large or small.

Former chief executive of Craig Mostyn Group David Lock has been appointed independent director of the CBH Group board, replacing current member David Willis.

Two of the state's major agribusiness operators have announced a phased merger, with Craig Mostyn Group moving to full ownership and control of V&V Walsh over the next five years.

An upgrade to a meat processing plant at Katanning, a chicken feed mill in Muchea, a new piggery at Moora and a live lobster holding facility in Welshpool are the latest in a string of investments that will boost the agribusiness sector in Western Australia.

Given the passion Rob Bransby feels for healthcare, it is hard to believe he is willingly stepping down from his CEO role at HBF.

A period of strong cattle prices has boosted Western Australia's largest pastoral companies, with the state's four biggest cattle-focused plays increasing revenue about 9 per cent to $1 billion in their most recent annual reports.

The board of local seafoods business Mareterram intends to accept a $19.7 million proportional takeover offer from the company's largest shareholder.

Craig Mostyn Group has appointed Mark Wray as chief executive.Mr Wray has served the agribusiness group as chief financial officer since 2010.

A local seafoods business led by Peter Hutchinson and David Lock has had a positive debut on the ASX, after raising over $18 million from investors and completing a major corporate restructure.

South African fishing company Sea Harvest Group has committed to take its maximum possible entitlement under a planned $16 million-plus capital raising by Perth company Style.

Style chairman Peter Hutchinson has boosted his fledgling seafood business with the recruitment of experienced agribusiness executive David Lock as managing director.

A listed company led by Forge Group founder Peter Hutchinson and former AFL footballer James Clement has announced its second acquisition this year, adding Craig Mostyn Group's food services division to an earlier seafood deal.

Some of Perth's top company directors and dealmakers, including Michael Smith, Ian Cochrane, Michael Ashforth and Tony Iannello have been recruited to help run prominent family companies.

Our inaugural Business Dynasties feature analyses WA's oldest family businesses, including some that have been running for more than 100 years, profiles Bob and Gavin Bunning 20 years after their family business was bought by Wesfarmers, and looks at the role of ‘outsiders' like Neil Hamilton, Michael Smith and Ian Cochrane in some of WA's most notable family enterprises. Also, see our new WA Business Dynasties list.

The state government has granted approval for an Augusta-based aquaculture company to expand its abalone production.

Cattle and lamb slaughters have continued on a strong upwards trend in September 2014, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.