Agmates Editor Steve Truman writes:
TEYS Brothers has bought the South Burnett meatworks at Murgon. South Burnett Beef went into receivership in May last year putting 350 local people out of work. The collapse of the company effectively left southern QLD with just two export grass beef processors.
Whether South Burnett meatworkers can look forward to a recall to work anytime soon remains to be seen.
Teys, has four major operational plants in Australia which are:
Queensland
Beenliegh (Between Brisbane & the Gold Coast) daily capacity of 1,400 cattle with 800 employees. Beenliegh is the Groups head office and kills all of the grainfed cattle from their feedlot at Condamine.
Rockhampton - daily capacity of 1,700 and employs 900 people. Rockhampton’s single largest employer.
Biloela - (South West of Rockhampton) daily capacity of 700 head and employs 400 people.
South Australia:
Naracoorte - (South East South Australia near Victorian Border) daily capacity of 550 head and employs 300 people. Naracoorte’s single largest employer.
Teys owns two other Plants that are not operational - Innisfail in North QLD that previously had employed 200 people and could kill 600 a day and Katherine in the Northern Territory.
We asked Livestock Executive Director Geoff Teys did they plan to reopen the works, but he told us that Chairman Allan Teys was the only one in the company authorized to speak about the purchase. Allan Teys is away for the next two weeks.
Teys is the largest Australian-owned and second-largest beef processing company in Australia after Brazil’s JBS group, which last year gained control of Queensland-based Australian Meat Holdings. Teys processes about one million cattle and turns over more than $1.2 billion.
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