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It is the sixth-largest dairy company in the world as of 2022, as well as the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. [11] Fonterra was established in October 2001 following the merger of the country's two largest dairy co-operatives, New Zealand Dairy Group (NZDG) and Kiwi Cooperative Dairies, with the New Zealand Dairy Board.
In 1923, the New Zealand Dairy Board (NZDB) was formed as a statutory board with monopoly control of the export of all New Zealand dairy products. [9] In the 1930s there were around 500 co-operatives [ 10 ] but after World War II , improved transportation, processing technologies and energy systems led to a trend of consolidation where the co ...
It has been owned by Chinese dairy company Yili Group since 2019. It is the third largest dairy processor in New Zealand (behind Fonterra and Open Country Dairy, and tied with Synlait) with a 3.4% market share. [2] Milk is sourced from farms across the West Coast, as far north as Karamea and as far south as Haast, and from farms throughout ...
CraFarms (or Crafar Farms) is a group of companies of which Allan, Beth and Frank Crafar were Directors. Crafar Farms was New Zealand's largest family-owned dairy business. [1] The family business owned 22 dry stock and dairy farms with approximately 20,000 cows in various regions of the North Island, and was put into receivership in October 2009.
Largest dairy companies by dairy revenue (FY 2019) [3] Rank Company Headquarters Dairy product revenue in bn. US$ 1 Nestlé Switzerland: 22.1 2 Lactalis France: 21.0 3 Dairy Farmers of America United States: 20.1 4 Danone France: 18.2 5 Yili Group China: 13.4 6 Fonterra New Zealand: 13.2 7 FrieslandCampina Netherlands: 12.6 8 Mengniu Dairy ...
Landcorp Farming Limited ("Landcorp") is a state-owned enterprise of the New Zealand government.Its brand name is Pāmu, the Māori language word for 'to farm'. Its core business is pastoral farming including dairy, sheep, beef and deer, as well as a foods business marketing milk and meat products globally under the Pāmu brand and as a supplier to other food processors.
The a2 Milk Company is the successor of A2 Corporation Limited, a New Zealand company founded in 2000 by Dr Corran McLachlan, who was researching health effects of A1 beta-casein, and Howard Paterson, who was one of New Zealand's richest men, a significant dairy farmer, and a stakeholder in Fonterra, a dairy cooperative.
Worldwide, the largest cow milk producer is the United States, [51] the largest cow milk exporter is New Zealand, [52] [53] and the largest importer is China. [54] The European Union with its present 27 member countries produced 158,800,000 metric tons (156,300,000 long tons; 175,000,000 short tons) in 2013 [ 55 ] (96.8% cow milk), the most by ...