Tag Archives: Elders
Heard It Through The Grapevine #3
Hardly a week ever goes past that I don’t get a phone call or an email tip off about something that has happened, is happening or is about to happen…. Read more
Elders Rural Services, Comes Good For Rural & Regional Australia ‘Onya’
Talk to any parent living in rural & regional Australia and they will tell you that career based jobs in the bush for their children is very important to them,… Read more
Australian Senate Finds Fertilizer Companies ‘Price Gouging’ Farmers
The Senate select committee on Agriculture has found evidence that farmers have been ‘price gouged’ by fertiliser companies. That ‘Price gouging’ is what we have reported on over the last… Read more
Futuris Puts AAco Back On Market.
How would you like to buy the controlling stake in Australia’s Largest Cattle Company for about half of what it was worth earlier this year? Futuris continues it’s restructuring. Earlier… Read more
Sterling Buntine To Sell King Island Cattle Property Dinibili
One of Australia’s Cattle Barrons Stirling Buntine is selling one of his properties. AFTER his $70 million purchase of Alroy Downs in the Northern Territory early this year, cattleman Sterling… Read more
Elders Retrenching 5% Of its Staff Is a Disgrace.
We reported back on the 8th of November that rural service giant Elders was looking at retrenching a swag of staff. Yesterday Elders Managing director Mark Guerin [pictured] announced that… Read more
AWB Landmark Can Thank Farmers for 137% Lift in Profit.
Why do farmers have the feeling they’ve been fleeced. AWB has just released its results for financial year 2008 and they are up a massive 137% on the previous year…. Read more
The Great Incitec Pivot Fertilizer Rip Off.
Giant Fertilizer Company Incitec Pivot has used its market domination to rip millions of dollars out of farmers pockets. INCITEC Pivot has almost trebled annual profit to a record ($614.3… Read more
Elders to shed 350 Staff.
More than 350 jobs at the Elders head office in Adelaide are under threat because of a corporate restructure. . Elders’ relatively new managing director, Mike Guerin [pictured] said yesterday… Read more
Executive Greed Alive & Well at Futuris Owner of Elders and Major Shareholder in AAco
Executive greed and excess is alive and well in Corporate Agriculture in Australia. Shareholders, staff and company clients at Futuris, the company that owns Elders and has a 43% stake… Read more
