A late rescue deal and sale is set to keep two landmark West Australian dairy brands on supermarket shelves.
Mundella Foods and the Margaret River Dairy Company went liquidation-investigation/105507238″ data-component=”Link” data-uri=”coremedia://article/105507238″>into liquidation in August, with creditors owed millions of dollars.
Local processor Artisanal Market has bought the brands and assets, including processing facilities in perth and Margaret River, for an undisclosed sum.
Mundella Foods’ operations near Mundigjong will not be used for processing by the new owners. (ABC South West WA: Jon Daly)
Artisanal Market managing director Kevin Sorgiovanni founded another well-known WA dairy and juice brand, Harvey Fresh.
He said he had been interested in buying the companies back in 2023, when they were sold by Chinese-owned Manassen Foods to The Cheeky Cow, which has since collapsed.
“It hasn’t been an easy road,”
Mr Sorgiovanni said.
“We saw the Mundella and Margaret River business as a great opportunity for the South West and also to add some value back to the WA dairy market.”
Mr Sorgiovanni said both brands of yoghurt would be manufactured at the export-approved Metricup processing facility near Margaret River.
Artisanal Markets will mothball Mundella’s original manufacturing facility at Mundijong, near Perth, because of its…