Headquartered in Melbourne, Pure Dairy are international thought leaders and facilitators of global end-to-end dairy trade, foodservices, manufacturing and branding. Now Pure Dairy is partnering with USA’s leading natural and processed cheese packager, Great Lakes Cheese.
Over the past decade, Pure Dairy has gone from being a local business to building a vast trading network across 72 countries and opening four international offices. The investment from Great Lakes Cheese will provide further impetus to this exponential growth, starting with Pure Dairy’s brand-new Victorian production facility – set to open in 2025. Pure Dairy’s day-to-day operations will remain under Australian management.
Adrian Josephson, Executive Chairman of Pure Dairy, said: “The investment from Great Lakes Cheese accelerates our plans to acquire further assets and consolidate Australia’s position as one of the world’s top dairy producers.”
Great Lakes Cheese’s Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Mark Anderson, said: “We were impressed by Pure Dairy’s existing global footprint and are excited to be part of their expansion. Their strong relationships and deep understanding of individual markets assured us that Pure Dairy are the right partner for us as we now make our very first investment outside of America.”
With easy access to dairy producers and the booming export hub of Port Melbourne, Pure Dairy’s new plant will encompass an R&D kitchen, manufacturing, warehousing and logistics as well as the Pure Dairy corporate office. Featuring innovative state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment, this facility will guarantee lean manufacturing and environmental sustainability to the highest accreditable global standards.
“The new facility will be a great asset to everyone in Australian dairy. Because although we’ll now have our own production lines, the plant will also be open to collaborative as well as white-label manufacture – and we’ll continue to serve our customers with data-driven, unbiased advice,” Mr. Josephson added.
“Great Lakes Cheese is well positioned to support sales of Australian Dairy products to American retailers and food service businesses through their strong network. The synergies that our partnership creates are endless.
“Today’s dairy industry is about constantly looking for new opportunities, always employing the most powerful way to think about dairy. For this, there’s no stronger partner than Pure Dairy. We go beyond transactional business to form strategic relationships, and we have the global insights required to succeed,” Mr. Josephson concluded.
