Harvey Industries Group, trading as Harvey Beef, has acquired the business assets of meat processing company Fremantle City Processors Pty Ltd for an undisclosed sum.
Harvey Industries Group, trading as Harvey Beef, has acquired the business assets of meat processing company Fremantle City Processors Pty Ltd for an undisclosed sum.
Harvey Beef will operate the Fremantle facility as Harvey Industries Processing Centre, and it will continue to operate as a boning room.
"We are excited at the prospect of being able to acquire facilities that will allow Harvey Beef to increase production capacity so significantly," said Harvey Industries Group chief executive Michael Rapattoni.
"Ultimately, we are confident this move will benefit producers and the Western Australian red meat community substantially. As a group we see this as the perfect opportunity for continuing our commitment to strengthening relationships with our producers, key suppliers and customers over the coming months."
Fremantle City Processors commenced as a beef processing facility in late 2006 under the guidance of experienced managing director Rob Nottle.
Since its inception, Fremantle City Processors Pty Ltd has had a successful record of servicing both the domestic and export markets with premium quality beef products.
"We are pleased to have been able to partner with Harvey Beef, an organisation committed to promoting the ongoing growth of the beef industry in both Western Australia and around the world," said Mr Nottle.
"I feel confident that the newly formed Harvey Industries Processing Centre will be able to further capitalise on the firm foundations that have already been laid in Fremantle, to better service producers and customers alike."
There will be no day-to-day changes in the way Harvey Beef or the new Fremantle based Harvey Industries Processing Centre operates.
Both companies maintain that continuity for staff, customers and producers alike, was of utmost importance to operations going forward, and they believe the opportunity will allow them to better service the requirements of existing customers in Japan and Korea and also grow new relationships overseas.
Current shareholder in FCP, Challenge Dairy Cooperative has endorsed the sale and new direction of the enterprise.
Around 70 per cent of Harvey Beef's product is exported overseas - in particular to Japan, Korea, Indonesia, USA, Singapore, Taiwan and the Middle East.
