Just trying to remember the NZ connection via Tasman Farms.
The late Dunedin businessman Howard Paterson may have been involved??
I think it is a very well run dairying business.
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All on their website Percy , bit of history there for Tasmania , they may have to make more than one capital raise for this ???
VDL became part of the New Zealand publicly listed company Tasman Agriculture Ltd in 1993.
Tasman Agriculture Ltd was put into voluntary liquidation on 31 October 2001, following a restructuring of its New Zealand Farms, and its shareholders received one share in Tasman Farms Limited for every share held in TasAg by way of an in-specie distribution.
In June 2004 VDL purchased all the shares in Tasman Farmdale Limited, which owned a further 11 dairy unitsin the Circular Head region of North-West Tasmania.
Tasman Farms Limited, a New Zealand Company, is the current majority shareholder of VDL, owning 98.42% of shares on issue.
Management of VDL is undertaken from a small, modern office located in Smithton, within 40 minutes of all farms.
VDL has 75,500,000 shares on issue.
In late 2007 the New Plymouth District Council (NPDC), based in the Taranaki region of New Zealand, launched a takeover bid of Tasman Farms Limited. In February 2008 this bid was finalised with the NPDC purchasing 74.33% of Tasman Farms Limited. NPDC has since increased its Shareholding to 100%.
Thanks Stoploss.
Yes most probably some "interesting" venues for capital raising.
thats a fairly large aquisition! they will need a lot more cash now??
From NBR article.
Van Diemen's Land Company is Australia's oldest dairying company.
This will be only the third time in about 200 years of production the property has changed hands.
VDL has almost 30,000 cows on 19,000 hectacres producing nearly 8 million kilograms of milk solids this year.
According to VDL director Mike Trousselot VDL is valued over $250 million.
if i sell all my ONC shares today, will i still be eligible for the SPP?
Possibly you would, as the record date was 9th October.
But what would hold me back, is the fact they are not despatching SPP details until the 20th November.
My worry would be if you are not on the register when they despatch the SPP details you may miss out.
Maybe the way round it would be to not sell your whole holding,retain 500 or so.
Game on.!!!
Bring it on.!
Any dairy company paying too high a price [farm gate] for their supply will run at a loss.
Any dairy farmer who can keep their costs well below their selling price will make a profit.
Any dairy company that can sell their product at a "premium"and has the marketing and logistics in place will most probably make a profit.
To me it looks as though VDL dairy farms are located in the wet west of Tasmania,and depending on borrowing costs ,should be low cost producer.Hopefully there will be a tie up with BAL and their product will be sold at a premium.
Corporate dairy farms usually have higher production costs than smaller owner operator. I don't like the look of this. Better to buy the milk and make the product.
And very difficult not to get a 20% drop in production when converting to organic supply