October 01, 2012
Sanford and Sealord secure jobs at Tauranga mussel plant
Sanford Limited and Sealord Group Limited has reached agreement for the purchase of the Mussel Processors Limited business in Tauranga from its receivers resulting in the 20 full time and 200 casual workers keeping their jobs.
Sealord and Sanford will now work with the receivers and existing staff to ensure the processing facility is up and running prior to the start of this season’s harvest.
Sealord CEO, Graham Stuart said, purchasing the Tauranga based processing facility was important in continuing the development of the Coromandel mussel industry.
The processing plant in Tauranga was the first in the world to operate an automated mussel opening machine as part of a $23 million investment to expand the facility in 2009.
Sanford and Sealord have each taken a 50% shareholding in a new company North Island Mussels Limited, which will own the Tauranga plant and the Coromandel farming operations.
Kua whai wāhi te rōpū o Sanford me Sealord ki te hoko i te whare kuku maitai ki Tauranga, na tānei mahi rua tekau ngā kaimahi ka pupuri tonu ki o rātou turanga mahi, ā, rua rau ngā kaimahi ka mahi ki tānei wāhi mahi i ngā marama o te raumati.
I tānei wā kei te mahi tahi te rōpū Sanford, Sealord ki te taha o ngā kaipupuri o mua me ngā kaimahi e tāea ai te kite i tātahi ara whakamua. Hei tā ngā kōrero mai te tumu whakarae o Sealord a Graham Stuart he kaupapa nui tānei mo te kamupene, kia kōkiri whakamua ngā mahi kuku ki roto o Aotearoa.
Rua tekau ma toru miriona tāra ngā rawa e pupuri ana ki roto i tānei pakihi, rima tekau paihāneti o ngā hea aka noho ki raro i a Sanford.