Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited - Profile Company Report Australia

31-07-2012, 12 pages

Fonterra Co-operative Group is a New Zealand-based multinational dairy company, owned by around 10,500 New Zealand dairy farmers. Fonterra is the world's largest exporter of dairy products with customers and consumers in 140 countries. Collecting almost 17 billion litres of milk a year from its shareholders. The company is headquartered in Auckland, and employs 17,300 staff globally.

The group operates in three main areas: Ingredients, Consumer Products and Foodservices.

Ingredients - Operations comprise the manufacture and global marketing of dairy commodity and ingredient products, including trading dairy products on other manufacturers' behalf. The company's ingredients business is the largest dairy ingredients operation in the world, manufacturing and marketing more than 1,000 ingredient products to the international food industry under the NZMP brand.

Consumer Products - This division consists of the production, marketing and sale of milk powders, liquid milks and yoghurts, packaged natural cheese, processed cheese, butter, spreads and cream to retailers and foodservice businesses in more than 30 countries. Consumer brands include Anchor, Tip Top, Anlene, Anmum, Chesdale, Fernleaf and Mainland.

Foodservices - Through this division, Fontella provides a range of branded dairy products to restaurants, cafe's, fast food outlets and similar businesses. Products include creams, milk, yoghurt, beverages, cheese, ice cream and desserts.

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