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Angas Park Fruit Company celebrates 100 years Angas Park Fruit Company at Angaston will celebrate their 100th anniversary with a street party on October 7. Murray Street will be closed from North Street to Schilling Street for the fun day, which will include a sausage sizzle, clowns and face painting. General Manager Operations, Mr Peter Manning said it is their way of giving back to the community. “This is our way of giving back to the public to say thankyou for being our customers for the past 100 years.” Mr Manning started at Angas Park 10 years ago as the production manager, then went on to operations manager, then new business development manager and has filled his current role for seven years. “Angas Park has been operating for 100 years and a lot has changed in that time,” Mr Manning said. “A lot of small co-operatives have closed down and gone out of business.” He said Angas Park and their parent company, Sunbeam are the only significant dried fruit companies left in Australia, selling more than $160 million in sales as a group.
COVER CAPTION: Angas Park Fruit Company’s Mr Peter Manning (right), General Manager Operations and Mr David Wall, Manager Retail Shops.
“We supply all the major supermarkets with vine fruit, tree fruit and prunes.” The company, which has operations in most states in the country, has 131 weekly paid staff, including casual and 24 salaried staff. “As far as Angas Park goes, we’re still strong and active. “We have our own retail sales outlet and we’re a large employer in the Barossa. “Angas Park is the second largest individual brand in the division within the group. “My role is running South Australian operations so I have a site at Renmark where we pack all our nuts as an allergen controlled operation so we don’t mix them in the fruit. “We also have a drying yard at Loxton and the operation here.” Mr Manning said Angas Park prefers to use Australian product, but they do substitute with imported product because of unavailability. Manager Retail Shops, Mr David Wall said the company buys all the Australian product they can physically buy. “That’s just not enough to supply our customers so we simply have to import,” Mr Wall said. Mr Wall said Angas Park was a great place to work and has seen some interesting times over the years. “At the end of the day everyone has a choice and if you don’t want to be here, you can choose to leave and people are choosing to stay.” Mr Manning said local customers are an important part of the
business, with loyalty cards and pensioner discount days offered. “We do those things to encourage the local community to support us,” Mr Manning said. “There are local businesses that supply us with unique, boutique, handcrafted goods that we offer for sale through our retail shop.” Mr Manning said they plan to host an employee day later in the year to celebrate their milestone and intend on having about 350 people attend. “We look after the business and the business looks after us, it supports a lot of families and the community in general. “I’m very proud of the fact that we have employees here that have been here so long. “A very high percentage of our workforce has been here 10 years or greater; well over 70 per cent.” He said there is a lot of camaraderie between the workers, who are one big team. Angas Park employs an apprentice electrician and Mr Manning said they try to do as much as they can to educate and train the tradespeople of the future. “I look forward to when this apprentice finishes so we can put another one on at some stage.” A lot of change is happening within the company, including a logo adjustment. “Our business keeps evolving and we need to change with consumer habits. “Our innovation will hopefully result in Angas Park surviving another 100 years.”
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Celebrating 100 Years Fruitful history for Angas Park The history of Angas Park Fruit Company stretches over 100 years, and is filled with growth and change. The company began a century ago with J.W. Mattiske founding the business in 1911 and simply naming it Mattiske’s. J.0W. Mattiske’s son, Berni Henri Mattiske then took over the business changed the name to Angas Park in 1944. When Berni died in 1963, Robern Menz Friut Company bought the business, and later went into receivership in about 1968, before being taken over by American man, Paul Mariani II, who owned Mariani Packing Company. Paul Mariani’s son, Paul Mariani III later took over Angas Park in 1987 with his father-inlaw, Colin Hayes. They owned the business until 2000, when Chiquita Brands South Pacific Limited bought it and ran it until 2004 when Sunbeam Foods took over, where they remain today. One of the staff who has seen many changes over his time at Angas Park is Mr Graeme Strathearn, an employee at the business for 28 years. “From a community perspective, it’s a really interesting business,” Mr Strathearn said. “We employ a lot of people in the community and we’re well known throughout the community.” Mr Strathearn said Angas Park has changed significantly
since he began nearly three decades ago. “When I was starting out a long time ago, we were just beginning a new development of the whole business. “We were really expanding from a fruit intake and production perspective.” He said the size of the building and the company have changed dramatically. “It’s just amazing from where we were when I started to where we ended up at our peak.” One of the things that many employees have noted throughout their time is the abundance of long-serving employees. Dried Fruit Procurement Manager, Mr Colin Farey has been at Angas Park for 41 years and said when he started, everything was manual without the help of forklifts. “Everything was delivered in what they called sweats or lug boxes. They took two people to lift.” The longest serving current employee, Mr Stuart Farey has been at the company for 46 years and remembers unloading all of the apricots at the Angaston site, then loading them onto trucks to be taken to the cool stores at Nuriootpa, near the old cannery. “When I first started, we used to unload semi-loads of sugar all by hand, there were no forklifts. “There have been so many changes; people don’t realise how hard we had to work. “All the sweats were stacked up to the roof. You had to fly up
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Celebrating 100 Years Office boy to Managing Director Mr Robert Blenkiron from Angaston remembers his first days at Angas Park Fruit Company clearly, even though they happened almost 55 years ago. Mr Blenkiron, later known to his colleagues as Mr B, began working at the dried fruit company on December 26, 1956. “It was the day after Christmas and it was the year of the big flood so it’s not hard to remember. It’s a very defined time,” Mr Blenkiron said. He was left to take care of the office as a 16-year-old out of high school while the rest of the staff went to sandbag a station near Blanchetown about two days after he started at the company. Mr Blenkiron was employed by his neighbours, the Mattiske family after four years of high school. “My background was ideal for going to work in a dried fruit operation as an office boy.” He said Angas Park was small back then, with the frontage on Schilling Street taking up about half as much room compared to today. Another difference was the tough regulations the industry faced. “We had a state dried fruits board, which controlled licence and quality; a federal board, which controlled export marketing and the Australian Dried Fruit Association, which controlled the industry as a whole.” The regulations meant Angas
Park were not able to supply their products to Coles or Woolworths. This control was later lifted and the company was then allowed to do a lot more work in the retail industry. “It was hard work initially because there were so many rules out there to try to stop you from doing what you wanted to do, but we got by,” Mr Blenkiron said. “We prided ourselves on our quality and that’s what helped immensely.” Mr Blenkiron said a low point in his working life was when the company went into receivership in about 1968. Things were looking up when a receiver manager was appointed. “It was hard work, but going broke really did change everything.” The company was to close if it did not get a buyer at the end of the year, which it did. “That was the most life changing thing, it was the big change in the company.” Mr Blenkiron said the advantage of Angas Park was the control they had over all facets of their workplace. “We did the whole thing ourselves, there was nobody in the middle to tell us what to do or how to do it.” “I built a team of people around us who were very keen and in the late 1960s and early 1970s we started to grow.” Mr Blenkiron lived by the principle of doing everything by hand until they proved they could make money.
“We’d create a product and we would do it by hand until we could justify spending money on machinery.” Mr Blenkiron moved fairly quickly from the office boy, to office manager and later the General Manager. He even had time to stop by the lab and blow things up. He did this by teaching himself all facets of the business, spending his time between the office and the factory working hard. “I worked hard because I came from a family of seven where we had very little and if you want to get somewhere in life, you work.” Mr Blenkiron said the things he is most proud of achieving at Angas Park are creating the fruit medley to use the standard grade fruit, changing the packaging to allow more moisture, creating bulk bins for fruit storage and bringing the first of the machines to Australia for pitted prunes. He was on the International Dried Fruits Board for 10 years, was on the State Dried Fruits Board, was the inaugural president of the South Australian Dried Tree Fruit Association and was on the Research and Development Council. Mr Blenkiron said he enjoyed his time at Angas Park and is still known to purchase the products. “I don’t believe I had too many enemies or people who disliked me in the company. “I think I was respected as one of the senior people within the industry.”
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Bounding ahead with environmental changes Angas Park Fruit Company have been bounding ahead with their environmental and technological changes, cutting their water usage by 40 per cent over the past five years. In the past, being environmentally aware hadn’t always payed off economically for Angas Park and Engineering Manager, Mr Stephen Ellis said the company was just beginning to obtain the benefits. “There hasn’t always been a payback in the past and that is mainly because the inputs of electricity and water has been relatively cheap, however, as those costs have come up, the decisions we have previously undertaken are gaining a pay back.” Mr Ellis said the looming potential carbon tax could place a further significant economic value on these inputs. He said the dried fruit industry was quite intense in its water use and Angas Park had made their biggest gain by reducing processing water usage. Beginning at the growers orchard, the fruit has had a relatively high water input. “We’re very much aware of this by the time it gets to us, so what we’ve tried to do is minimise the water we use to process and package it.” Mr Ellis said they used a rotational scrubber to mechanically brush wash the fruit, which used minimal water in comparison to previous methods. He said the company monitored their water and waste usage on a daily basis and held meetings with relevant staff when consumption is considered out of the ordinary. Mr Ellis said the company had also improved in the areas of electricity usage and waste generation. “The more we recycle, the more we save. In the past, we were disposing of cardboard
and plastic and it was costing us a lot to take it off site where it was ultimately becoming landfill. “We now recycle all of it and it is a lot better for us economically as well as a win for the environment.” Mr Ellis said among other initiatives, they were installing a new air compressor that would help minimise electricity and waste heat emissions. “We’re looking at systems that allows us to recover heat from machine processes. The recovered heat will run into the production area during winter enabling us to cut down on heating costs.” He said with improvements in technology, they would also be looking at more efficient industrial scale LED lighting to reduce electricity usage. With more awareness from the customer’s perspective about carbon footprints, Mr Ellis said becoming environmentally aware was essential for their business. He said supernmarkets were also becoming more interested in environmental and ethical perspectives rather than just the economic costs, so it was very important to be aware of these issues. “We operate on our site under a Environmental Protection Authority licence and requirement of that licence is to maintain an environmental improvement plan. “I guess part of the change is regulatory pressure, but basically that pressure started the ball rolling and has increased the company’s awareness of environmental issues.” The company has also made significant improvements in the area of product inspection by using X-ray, infrared lasers and camera sorting systems to sort the fruit. “In the past, inspection was a very
of providing a quality defect free product.” Mr Ellis said they have had to keep moving with the times to stay competitive and the technological changes have enabled them to do this, where many other dried fruit industries were unable.
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Dudley recorded 36 years’ service A strong camaraderie has formed between employees at Angas Park Fruit Company, with many reaching a 30+ year career at the Angaston-based company. Former Angas Park employee, Mr Dudley Graetz, of Penrice, served 36 years in the production area and is well known by many people still in the industry. “There are people here that worked together for a very long time. I was here since school and I like to think I’ve been looked after well by the bosses and staff,” Mr Graetz said. “It was sad to leave here but my back was playing up a bit. I miss the people I had around me all day; we were close and I got along with most people here.” Mr Graetz, 67, has seen many changes in the running of the company during his working life, including improvements in technology and changing job roles. “From what we used to have, there have been major changes at Angas Park. The old machines were very basic and we got a lot of headaches from them, whereas the new machines are very high tech.” He started with loading work, which then moved into work on the packaging machine and eventually a nine year span as a production planner in the office. “It was alright until the computers came in. I could do the basic things but when all this high tech stuff came in, I went back out into the factory and stayed there until I retired.” Improvements in the work equipment through Mr Graetz’s working career meant he had less strain on his back, as he grew older. “Before the forklifts came in, it was very hard manual work. We used to stack heavy boxes manually, and they would be stacked so high I couldn’t reach the top ones. “I am glad to see the changes, because it is now a lot easier on everyone’s back.” The products have moved from heavy tin packaging to a lighter plastic material, which has also benefitted employees in the production area. “It was much better moving from tin packaging to plastic, because with the tins, you would have to stack them onto a pallet outside and let them cool for about three days. “They also used to be about 20kg into a box, whereas now you don’t have anywhere near that weight - especially with the retail packets because you might only have 10 packets
in a box now.” Mr Graetz has been retired for 13 months, and although he keeps busy, has found himself returning for visits to his old work-site.
“I come into Angas Park every now and again. I even used to come in every Thursday to put in my footy tips,” he said. “I left on a good note, and am still very happy with the company.”
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Bruce Doecke, Angaston Transport, is proud of his long association with Angas Park Fruit Company. T r u c k d r i v e r, M r B r u c e Doecke of Angaston has been associated with Angas Park Fruit Company for about 50 years, with his family supplying fruit in the early years. Mr Doecke began driving trucks for Angas Park in 1974 and still supplies fruit for them to this day and has clocked up millions of kilometres over the years. One of his trucks has done 1.3 million kilometres for Angas Park alone. He got the job from his first boss, Mr Robert Blenkiron, who Mr
Doecke said he always has a lot of time for. “I wouldn’t be where I am now if it wasn’t for Angas Park and Robert Blenkiron and Colin Farey,” Mr Doecke said. Mr Doecke is thankful for the support from all of his bosses and said Chris Brooke, Theresa Frick, Tracy Sonntag and Julie Heintze have also been good to him over the years. He said he has enjoyed his time working for Angas Park, remarking he would not still be doing it if he didn’t like it.
Mr Doecke’s hard work at Angas Park included unloading by hand by Schilling Street, when forklifts weren’t used. “We unloaded in a dirt yard; you’ve got to start from somewhere.” Mr Doecke’s business, B.G&L.I. Doecke – which he runs with his wife, Lorna – grew with Angas Park when he bought a new prime mover and trailer in 1975 to keep up with the demand. He said he would deliver all over the country before he lost the contract for this when the
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Although they offered many quirky products over the years, Mr Wall said they were best known for their apricots and it was still their number one selling product. “Peaches, pears and nectarines have also been something that has always been popular to our customers,” he said. “Prunes have recently gone through the roof as well. Pitted prunes especially have become a big seller for us.” He said a lot of the changes made had been in the packaging, design of the label and quantities available to customers. “The dried fruit product range over the years has remained the same with just a few minor changes, because at the end of the day, dried fruit is still dried fruit.” Mr Wall said changes had been made from
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Celebrating 100 Years The process l The unprocessed fruit is delivered from our growers to Angas Park. l The cut fruit e.g. apricots, peaches, pears etc is then put through our rotational scrubber and washer for cleaning.
Ashleigh Walton and Lyn Patterson sorting fruit on the cut fruit line.
l The fruit then goes through our photographic colour sorter (Tegra) to pick out blemishes and defects. l From there the fruit is either accepted and sent straight to retail for packing, or if rejected sent to the cutt fruit line for further visual inspection. l Once the product is packed it is then transported to our finished goods warehouse.
Joanne Tapp on the prune line.
Matthew Claridge packing boxes at Angas Park Fruit Company. Gill O’Riley at the value adder, where fruit medley and fruit salad is made.
Angas Park Fruit Company shop assistant, Erin Schneider is one of the friendly team that will greet customers who visit the Angaston based store.
Prune line operatior, Neil Robinson cleaning the prune chucks in the state of the art equipment at Angas Park Fruit Company.
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Angas Park 100th Anniversary, “The Leader”, August 17, 2011 - 11
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Celebrating 100 Years Angas Park Fruit Company would like to thank our valued customers for your patronage over the years. To help us celebrate we will be holding a Free Street Party in Murray Street, Angaston on Friday, October 7. The street will be closed between North Street and Schilling Street where we will have a number of events including a sausage sizzle, clowns, face painting, giveaways, and a history walk just to name a few. The history walk will include photos and memorabilia from our history over the last 100 years. If anyone has any memorabilia that we can borrow to use in our display, could they please contact David Wall on 8561 0816 or 0408 381 927.
Angas Park Fruit Company Celebrating 100 years
PRESENT THIS VOUCHER AND RECEIVE 20% DISCOUNT STOREWIDE Inlcuding already reduced stock. Sale from Monday, August 22 to Friday, August 26. * Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. DR3309-V2
Treat yourself, you deserve it! 3 MURRAY ST., ANGASTON PH: (08) 8561 0830 Email: shop@angaspark.com.au 12 - Angas Park 100th Anniversary, “The Leader”, August 17, 2011
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