Brownes

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Brownes Dairy
Company type Subsidiary
IndustryFood manufacturing
Founded1886;138 years ago (1886)
FounderEdward Browne
Headquarters
Balcatta, Western Australia
,
Australia
OwnerShanghai Ground Food Tech
Website brownesdairy.com.au

Brownes Dairy is an Australian dairy company. It produces dairy products such as milk, cheese and yoghurt for the domestic and international market. [1] The company is the oldest and largest dairy processor in Western Australia. [2] [3]

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History

Brownes was established in 1886. [1] It became the first Western Australian company to produce flavoured milk in 1951. [4]

In 1955 the family company became a public company, [5] changing its name from Brownes Limited to Brownes Dairy limited. [6]

The company began making yoghurt in 1959. [7] Ice cream company Peters acquired Brownes in 1962. [8] In the 1970s, Brownes started making sour cream and feta cheese. [9]

In 2010, Fonterra sold Brownes to DairyWest, a subsidiary of private investment firm Archer Capital. [10] In July 2012, Brownes acquired Casa Dairy, a maker of niche products like European-style cheeses and buttermilk located in Canning Vale. [11]

Brownes was fined $100,000 in July 2014 after waste milk from its Brunswick facility spilled into a nearby creek causing fish to die and a foul odour. The company also spent about four weeks and about $387,000 to clean up the spill. [12]

In November 2017, Brownes was purchased by Australia Zhiran Co, a Chinese consortium led by Shanghai Ground Food Tech. [13]

In July 2021, Brownes was fined $22,000 by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission after it published two milk supply agreements on its website in June 2020 which did not comply with the Dairy Code. [14]

Operations

Annually, Brownes collects about 120 million litres of milk from over 50 farms. [1] Brownes has processing facilities located in Balcatta, Brunswick and Shanghai. [10] [15] As of 2010, the company processes 40 per cent of WA's milk production. [10]

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References

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