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t 101 years old, The Tatua Co-operative Dairy Company is the oldest independent dairy company in New Zealand. From its humble beginnings in 1914, now Tatua exports more than 94% of its products to more than 60 countries worldwide each year with sales offices in three countries, Japan, USA and China. Its specialised high-quality dairy ingredients and food products are popular with customers all of the globe. The company is dedicated to collaborative product development and customised solutions, pairing commitment, innovation, agility and product quality which has led to enduring long term customer partnerships. Tatua’s business focuses on six key areas: Dairy Ingredients, Specialty Nutritionals, Flavour Ingredients, Bionutrients, Foodservice, and Consumer Products.
CO-OPERATIVE STRUCTURE Tatua Co-operative is run by a Board of Directors which comprises of six elected shareholder Directors and two appointed independent Directors. Milk is at the centre of everything Tatua produces, so quality and freshness are two must-have qualities for any Tatua partner. To ensure this, shareholder farmers are located close to manufacturing facilities. There are 119 shareholder farms which supply milk to Tatua, all of which located 12 kilometres of the manufacturing facilities, these consist of 87 farming families and 330 employees and their respective families. This close supply network means the company is able to closely monitor produce, despite a total of more than 200 million litres of milk being processed at Tatua per year. This milk is turned into dairy ingredients, dairy flavour ingredients, specialty nutritional products, bionutrients, and foodservice and consumer products. BRANDS Tatua Consumer Products provide innovative, convenient dairy products, with the convenience of long shelf life, helping to reduce wastage and offering versatility for the consumer. These ready-to-use dairy products are available in supermarkets and convenience stores throughout Australasia, and parts of South East Asia. The retail range includes Dairy Whip Whipped Cream, Chef de Can and Tatua creams including Creme Fraiche, Mascarpone and Sour Cream, and Tatua Cheese Sauce. Tatua retails its products for catering use as well as home use. They are used extensively in bakery, airline catering, hotel, restaurant chains and food manufacturing applications in Australasia, Latin America and the Asia Pacific region.
BIONUTRIENTS & SPECIAL NUTRIONALS Tatua’s work goes further than off the shelf dairy products. Its Bionutrients business is able to offer confidential customised product development solutions thanks to its fully dedicated microbiological laboratory on site. The company’s experienced Bionutrients team manufactures and supplies peptones and purified proteins required for microbial diagnostic media, cell culture media, microbiological fermentation media and dairy starter culture media. Tata offers dairy peptones and non-animal peptones. Tatua’s modern facility allows its Specialty Nutritionals division to develop and manufacture a broad range of dairy protein hydrolysates, bioactive proteins like Lactoferrin and phospholipid fat products for the specialised food and
functional supplement markets around the world, and at an affordable price. These have very useful applications in sport and enteral nutrition, infant formula, meal replacement and the functional supplement markets. Tatua’s cows are pasture-fed all-year round, and New Zealand’s location is fortunate in that it is free from pests and diseases that hamper the agricultural industry in other countries, such as BSE and foot and mouth disease. FLAVOUR INGREDIENTS In today’s health conscious market, there are more reasons than ever to utilise flavoured ingredients that are naturally made and not artificially manufactured.
Together with its partners worldwide, Tatua has developed a wide range of flavour ingredients to enhance the flavour and mouthfeel, and reduce costs in a wide range of food formulations. Its core range of flavour ingredients includes butter, cream & milk, cheese and custom designed flavours, which can be enhanced and adapted to meet specific needs. Tatua also specialises in technology that allows dairy products to be replaced with natural dairy flavour ingredients and vegetable based ingredients for cost reduction purposes.
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TATUA NOW & IN THE FUTURE Led by Chairman Stephen Allen and CEO Paul McGilvary, Tatua recently announced its results for 2014/15, in what was a tumultuous year for the industry which saw a global milk surplus and declining international prices. Despite this, Tatua set the 2015 payout for its farmer suppliers at $7.10 per kilogram of milk solids, the highest of any New Zealand processor, while the company produced a total of 36,582 tonnes of specialised product. “For Tatua, the concept of continually evolving our business to meet new challenges and capture new opportunities is fundamental,” commented Allen and McGilvary. Continuing to implement the company’s 2013-18 strategic plan at pace is a key objective which has four strategic themes; to grow Tatua’s earnings premium
over the New Zealand milk price, to make the business more sustainable. work as ‘One Team’ through a common purpose, vision and values and to attract, develop and retain great people. Also in 2015, Tatua set up two new offshore subsidiary offices in China and the USA, alongside the already established Tatua Japan. These new sales and marketing offices mean the company can provide better technical support to customers, better control the supply chain for its products, and obtain better market intelligence. Tatua’s 3rd dryer was completed on time and under budget this year as part of its long-term strategy: the largest single investment in Tatua’s history at $64.5 million. The specialty products dryer (Dryer 3) increased capacity to make specialised powders by 6,000 metric tonnes per year and enable Tatua to take a leading position in the world for specialised powders, with increased capacity and compliance. It has also allowed Tatua to reach much higher regulatory and customer standards. PEOPLE AT ITS HEART Tatua hasn’t survived 101 years without recognising that people its most precious resource. The farmers, families and stakeholders at the core of the co-operative, the Tatua staff and of course its valued customers. Putting people first will always remain Tatua’s first priority.
Oliver Moy Publisher For enquiries email okm@aubusinesscoverage.com