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Alliance Group Limited, a cooperative originally named Alliance Freezing Company (Southland) Limited, operates freezing works at eight sites in New Zealand and exports grass-fed meat and by-products to Europe, North America, as well as Asia including China, India, Korea and Japan and many other countries. [1] Alliance employs almost 5,000 people across New Zealand and operates two processing plants in the North Island and six in the South Island.

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Corporate profile

The corporate identity was changed to Alliance in 2018. [3]

David Surveyor has since January 2015 been the chief executive officer, succeeding Grant Cuff. [4] Murray Taggart has been chairman of the board of directors since 1 October 2013. [5]

History

Alliance Freezing Company (Southland) Limited was founded by local farmers in Invercargill in 1948. [6] Their first large freezing works was opened in 1980 at Lorneville on the outskirts of Invercargill.

From its base in Invercargill Alliance runs freezing works nearby in Southland at Lorneville and Mataura, further away at Pukeuri in Otago, Timaru in South Canterbury, and at Nelson. There are two freezing works in the North Island at Dannevirke and Levin. [7] A new $15.9 million venison plant opened at Lorneville in December 2018.

Always a business belonging to farmers Alliance's ownership model was changed in 1960 to a cooperative. The farmers who supply the livestock to be killed are the company's shareholders. The name of the cooperative was changed to Alliance Group Limited in 1990. [6]

Alliance Group bought their first North Island freezing works at Dannevirke in 2003. They added a second North Island works at Levin in 2008. [6]

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References

  1. "Product Range". Alliance Group Limited. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  2. "Our Brands". Alliance Group website. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  3. Alliance Annual Report 2018
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  5. "Murray Taggart new Alliance Group chairman". National Business Review . 26 July 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
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  7. "Alliance Group Plant Locations". Alliance Group. Archived from the original on 4 July 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.