Current Operation
- Closed
Location
Owner
- Thiess Bros (maybe early 60’s)2
Operation
History
1949
- ‘Airbeef’ Cattle slaughtered on Glenroy station, meat flown to Wyndham and Derby for exports and freezing
1959
- Improved to meet stringent USDA (USA Dept of agriculture) hygiene regulation
1960’s
- Theiss Bros, negotiated with Emanuel Exports – to drive the best price foe cattlemen by collective bargaining with the meatworks2
1970
- Couldn’t meet USDA standards – lost export licence, so did Broome, Wyndham, Darwin and Katherine1
1980
- Export beef plant closed 19801
- Domestic Meat supply closed November 19801
Sources
- ‘Sailing ahead’ Annabelle Coppin 2009
- ‘The Australian Livestock export trade’ Nigel Austin 2011
Tagged: Derby abattoir, Derby meatprocessors
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