date:Jun 14, 2012
ness and reducing its costs.
The project will also secure the future of SPC Ardmona's 275 contract growers and suppliers of semi-processed fruit products such as fruit juice and pulp, Ryan added.
Project works are slated to start October 2012 and completed by March 2015.
SPC Ardmona, which is currently owned by Coca-Cola Amatil, purchases 150,000t of fruit valued at A$32m ($31.69m) annually from contract growers, and injects about A$63m ($62.39m) into the local economy.
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