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News David Lock, Craig Mostyn Group, wins NAB 2012 Agribusiness Leader of the Year across Australia from state-of-the-art processing facilities in Western Australia and Tasmania. He has held the position since 2004, spending the first five years focussed on exiting nonperforming businesses and restructuring 18 business units down to three - Linley Valley Pork, Recycling and Craig Mostyn Foods.
David Thorn (left) representing NAB Agribusiness, with David Lock of Criag Mostyn Group at the NAB Agribusiness Awards.
Netherlands exports pig feet to China The Chinese authorities have formally allowed as from November 1 the import of pig trotters from the Netherlands. In June last year, China had already allowed a limited number of pork products to be shipped from the Netherlands to China. At that time, trotters had not been included. Demand for pig trotters is high in China, with the Chinese New Year coming up in the beginning of 2013. The allowance of exporting pig trotters marks the end of a multi-year project by the Dutch ministry of Economy, Agriculture and Innovation, as well as several Dutch lobby groups and agricultural organisations.
Craig Mostyn Group is the largest pork producer in Western Australia while Craig Mostyn Foods imports and exports a range of seafood products and operates, among other things, a lobster processing and live export facility in Tasmania. Animal waste material from the Linley Valley Pork operation and other red meat and poultry abattoirs and boning rooms throughout Western Australia is processed by the Talloman rendering plant each year, then dried, stabilised and 100% recycled for feed, energy and Oleochemicals. In 2004, the meat and livestock division of the business processed 1000 pigs per week, owned no farms and had a major competitor which processed 9000 pigs per week. David negotiated with the competitor and acquired its livestock, then bought the competitor’s fresh meat business and a number of major farming operations. As result, CMG’s market share climbed from 10% to 95% enabling the business to grow its supermarket sales and export 30% of its production to become the major supplier of Australian pork into Singapore. The division operates five breeder farms including Australia’s largest free range farm. The Group is the first in Australia to obtain ‘Paws’ certification from the RSPCA and introduce robotic equipment in the abattoir.
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David Lock has been awarded Agribusiness Leader of the Year, an award sponsored by NAB. The winners of the 17th annual NAB Agribusiness Awards for Excellence were announced at a gala dinner in Melbourne in November. Mr Lock is the CEO of the Craig Mostyn Group (the Group), which operates
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