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From origins as a commodity-based almond grower, Select Harvests has successfully transformed itself into a significant integrated agri-food business with a diversified income streams.

Our activities now include managing orchards for investors, marketing almonds in the domestic and export markets, and processing and marketing an extensive range of nut and fruit based products to retailers, distributors and food manufacturers.

Select Harvests Limited, Australia’s largest almond grower, manages 60% of Australia’s almond orchards, and is one of the largest almond growers globally. It is also Australia’s leading manufacturer, processor and marketer of a range of nuts, fruit based, and associated products to the Australian retail and industrial markets, and exports almonds to several countries in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Through a focused diversification and growth strategy, Select Harvests has delivered an increase in profit after tax from $6 million in 2001 to over $28 million in 2006.

Select Harvests’ business streams are as follows:

Almond Operations

  • 3,368 acres of company almond orchards in the Robinvale area of north-west Victoria

  • Manages on a fee for service basis, 35,296 acres of almond orchards on behalf of a number of external investors. These services include orchard establishment, tree supply, farm management, harvesting, processing, and marketing.

  • Processing 12,000 metric tonnes of almonds in 2007 representing 48% of Australia’s crop. Our almond crop will grow to more than 40,000 tonnes by 2011 as our orchards come into full production.

  • Exports approximately 60% of its almond production to a range of countries including India, Japan, China, Thailand, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Russia, United Arab Emirates, and Italy.

Food Products

  • Produces an extensive range of packaged nuts and associated products (snacks, cooking ingredients, mueslis, natural health foods, dried fruits, etc).

  • Australia’s leading supplier of processed and packaged nuts to Australian supermarkets. The Company markets product through the Lucky, Sunsol, Nu-Vit, Meriram and Soland brands.

  • Manufactures a range of nut-based ingredients for food manufacturers and distributors.