Bega Cheese is closing its Kingaroy and Tolga peanut processing operations in QLD after failing to find a buyer for the failing business. The planned shutdown will cause the loss of 150 jobs across the two facilities. The peanut processing business has been incurring losses of between $5 and $10 million per annum, and Bega…
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Dairy maker Bega Group will close its Strathmerton cheese factory in Victoria by mid-2026, cutting 300 jobs, as it transfers operations to its existing NSW facilities in Bega.
The NSW government has launched a pilot program budgeted at $800,000, providing lean manufacturing audits to regional SME (between 20 and 200 full-time employees) companies. The Lean Manufacturing Pilot Program opened on Thursday and will accept applications until March 31 at 4 pm. According to the program info on the NSW government’s website the pilot…
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Bega Group has sold the historic factory in Port Melbourne that has manufactured Vegemite for more than 75 years. As part of company rationalisation and reducing debt, the company has sold the factory at 1 Vegemite Way for $114.6 million. The company will lease back the factory from new owner Charter Hall for an initial…