Alliance Group
Alliance Group Limited, a cooperative originally named Alliance Freezing Company (Southland) Limited, operates
Brands
- Pure South – the company's overarching brand for lamb, beef and venison
- Lumina Lamb – high country lamb
- Silere – alpine origin merino lamb
- Handpicked – beef and venison
- Ashley – for sheepmeat exported to Europe[2]
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
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]
References
- ^ "Product Range". Alliance Group Limited. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ^ "Our Brands". Alliance Group website. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ Alliance Annual Report 2018
- ^ "Alliance appoints David Surveyor CEO". The Southland Times. 5 December 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ "Murray Taggart new Alliance Group chairman". National Business Review. 26 July 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ a b c "History". Alliance Group Limited. Archived from the original on 4 July 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ "Alliance Group Plant Locations". Alliance Group. Archived from the original on 4 July 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.