Dairy Company

Tatua Co-operative

TaTua Co-operaTive Dairy Company

New Zealand’s oldest independent dairy company building the future of specialised dairy

TaTua Co-operaTive Dairy Company

New Zealand’s oldest independent dairy company building the future of specialised dairy

At 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.

BRANDSTatua 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 NUTRIONALSTatua’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 INGREDIENTSIn 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.

100% NZ owned and operated.

TATUA NOW & IN THE FUTURELed 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 HEARTTatua 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

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