News Articles for Overland Group

The foreign owner of two mothballed abattoirs has put both facilities up for sale and will exit WA after two years of radio silence about its future.

Overland Group will undertake a $65 million expansion of its abattoir near Bunbury to help meet demand for sheep meat processing.

The state government has quashed industry speculation it is looking to offload operation of a prison abattoir south of Perth.

A Wheatbelt abattoir has ceased processing sheep due to growing demand for beef products.

A collective of farmers are pressing ahead with a plan to build a large multi-species abattoir in the Great Southern to service the booming paddock-to-plate market.

WA meat processors Westpork and Dardanup Butchering Company have merged and announced more than $60 million of investments to boost feed and meat supply.

Investing in abattoir capacity and new facilities in WA may offer upside, but the reality is more challenging for those that can't scale up.

Western Australia's newest abattoir is on the market as demand from small producers to service their paddock-to-plate operations intensifies.

Paddock-to-plate producers have won a temporary reprieve from the closure of a key abattoir's custom kill service, as owner Westpork considers a new niche operation.

Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss Andrew Forrest, Cape Mentelle Vineyards, Julian Walter, CBH Group, Westpork and preview the next edition of Business News.

Zenith Insurance Services, Dardanup Butchering Co, Austral Pool Solutions, Omni Dental and Forpark Australia were among numerous private WA companies to change hands late last year.

Agribusiness Westpork recorded a slight uptick in revenue and a small dip in profit to $11.6 million in the 2021 financial year, according to documents lodged with the corporate watchdog.

The Western Australian Planning Commission has approved NewCo Mills' second go at building a stock feed grain mill on a 5.75 hectare site in Bullsbrook.

Applecross-based Advanced Energy Resources will soon begin work to install 1.5 megawatts of wind farm capacity across agribusiness Westpork's biggest farms as part of a $4 million move to renewables.