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Premier Fresh Australia

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Premier Fresh Australia
Company typePrivate
IndustryAgribusiness
Founded1946
HeadquartersMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
Area served
Global
Key people
Products
Websitepremierfresh.com.au

The Premier Fresh Australia is an Australia-based fresh fruits and vegetables supply chain company.[1]

Operations

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Premier Fresh grows & markets produce within Australia, and also export worldwide, with divisions including:

  • Australian Banana Company: Responsible for banana farming and logistics nationwide[2][3]
  • Darwin Fruit Farms: Responsible for banana farming and logistics nationwide[4][5]
  • Innisfail Banana Farming Company: Responsible for banana farming and logistics nationwide[6][7]
  • Lancaster Farms: Responsible for tomato, persimmon and pumpkin farming and logistics nationwide[8][9]
  • Premier Farms: apricots, avocadoes, bananas, beans, capsicums, cherries, chillis, cucumbers, eggplant, grapefruit, grapes, honeydews, kiwifruit, lemons, limes, lychees, mangoes, mandarins, nectarines, oranges, papaya, passionfruit, pawpaw, peaches, pineapples, plums, pumpkins, rockmelons, squash, tangelo, tomatoes, watermelon, zucchini[10][11][12][13][14]
  • Premier Farms International: Exports & markets multiple varieties of avocadoes, grapes, grapefruit, lemons, nectarines, oranges, peaches, pears[15]
  • Sellars Bananas: Responsible for banana farming and logistics nationwide[16][17]

History

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Name Period
TBC 1946–1970
Viva La Fruit 1970–1998
Premier Fruits Group 1998–2016
LaManna Premier Group 2016–2022
Premier Fresh Australia 2022–Present
Present Group CEO Anthony Di Pietro in 2007 at a farm in Bundaberg, Queensland.

Establishment and Victorian period 1946–1998

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Founded in 1946 as '?', Premier Fresh Australia began as a farming business in the Sunraysia region of northwestern Victoria and southwestern New South Wales. The business initially grew tomatoes for sale & distribution within the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne until the farm's newly built Greenhouse and the crops of the surrounding paddocks were destroyed by the 1956 Murray River flood. Following this loss, co-founder Joe Di Pietro relocated and recommenced operations to the Queen Victoria Market, distributing & merchandising various items of fresh produce from all over the eastern coast of Australia.

In 1970, Victoria's wholesaling division was relocated from the Queen Victoria Market to the newly purpose built West Melbourne site,[18] in which the business was renamed as 'Viva La Fruit'. It was from within the newly built market that the business began to distribute fresh produce to the supermarkets of Coles, Franklins and Safeway.

National expansion 1998–2024

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In 1998 the business merged with 'Premier Fruits' to become 'Premier Fruits Group', the name it would remain as until mid-2016. Within this eighteen year period, the company had established both distribution centers and wholesale marketing operations in Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth and Sydney. In 2003, son of co-founder Joe Di Pietro, Anthony, became Chief executive officer, with present Chief operating officer, Dean Gall joining the business as a director. In 2014 the business began expansion of it's tomato farming operations, in acquiring farming operations in Virginia,[19] and building Australia's first greenhouse with a retractable roof in Lancaster, Victoria.[20][21]

In June 2016, it was announced that Premier Fruits Group had agreed to a merger with LaManna Group, a subsidiary of New Zealand based Market Gardeners Marketing,[22] to form 'LaManna Premier Group'. The merged entity was later reported by the Australian Financial Review to become that 'second largest fresh fruit and vegetable supplier' in Australia, behind the formerly ASX listed Costa Group.[23] Whilst LaManna Group entity consisted of distribution centers and wholesale marketing operations in Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth and Sydney, as did the Premier Fruits Group entity, it also crucially had established banana farming operations in Darwin, Northern Territory, and Innisfail, Queensland, being Australian Banana Company, Darwin Fruit Farms and Innisfail Banana Farming Company respectively. In August 2022, the entity was rebranded as 'Premier Fresh Australia'.[24]

2024–Present

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In June 2024, the original owners of the Premier Fruits Group entity acquired the share of the business owned by New Zealand based Market Gardeners Marketing, to assume full ownership and control of Premier Fresh Australia, and becoming 100 per cent Australian-owned.[25][26][27][28] The following month in July, the revamped board appointed PFD Food Services CEO Kerry Smith[29] as a director and independent chair of the entity.[30][31] Later in the year, the business acquired Far North Queensland banana farming businesses Zahra Family Farms, and Sellars Bananas.[32][33]

In 2025, Chief operating officer Dean Gall became chairperson of the International Fresh Produce Association Australia and New Zealand (IFPA ANZ).[34][35][36][37][38][39]

Fantasy Kits

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The Bacalas
Football Club
Original Kit
Gino
Football Club
Original Kit
Gino
Football Club
Final Kit
Part Time
Football Club
Original Kit

East Carlton Soccer Club

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East Carlton
Full nameEast Carlton Soccer Club
Founded1969; 56 years ago (1969)
Dissolved1983; 42 years ago (1983)
LeagueFootball Victoria State Leagues

East Carlton Soccer Club was an Australian association football (soccer) club based in the inner-northern Melbourne suburb of Carlton. The club was founded in 1969 by the local Italian community and competed in the modern day Victorian state league system.[40]Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).

History

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Venue Suburb Period
Princes Park Carlton North 1969, 1980–1981, 1983
Royal Park Parkville 2022–present
Unknown Unknown 1979 & 1982

1969 [41] 1970 [42] 1971 [43] 1972 [44] 1973 [45] 1974 [46] 1975 [47] 1976 [48] 1977 [49] 1978 [50] 1980 [51] 1981 [52] 1983 [53]

Red shirt, white shorts, red socks, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978 (away)

Blue shirt, white shorts, blue socks, 1977, 1980, 1981

Navy Blue shirt, navy blue shorts, navy blue socks, 1978

Green shirt, white shorts, green socks, 1980 (away)

Green shirt, white shorts, white socks, 1981 (away), 1983 (away)

Unknown for 1979 kit and home ground Unknown for 1982 kit and home ground

Princes Park 1969, 1980, 1981, 1983 Royal Park 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978

Kit Evolution

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Kit evolution

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  • Home
1969–1976
1977, 1980–1981, 1983
1978
1979 & 1982
2016–2017
2018–2020
2021–2022
2022–2023
  • Away
1978
2011–2013
2015–2016
2016–2017
2018–2020
2021–2022
2022–2023

Honours

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Runner's Up (1): 1971
  • District League Division Four (state eleventh division)
Runner's Up (1): 1977

Riverside Estate

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Riverside Estate
Melbourne, Victoria
Riverside Estate is located in Melbourne
Riverside Estate
Riverside Estate
Coordinates37°47′37″S 145°5′11″E / 37.79361°S 145.08639°E / -37.79361; 145.08639
Established1938; 87 years ago (1938)
Postcode(s)3104
Location11 km (7 mi) from Melbourne
LGA(s)City of Boroondara
Leafy green trees provide a canopy over Bulleen Road, with Bellevue Kindergarten in the background. October 2008.
Aerial panorama of the Eastern Freeway section in Balwyn North facing the city skyline, with the Riverside Estate on the left. September 2023.

Riverside Estate is a residential area of Melbourne located in the north western corner of Balwyn North, 11km north-east of the Melbourne CBD. Established in 1938, the area is bordered by Burke Road to the west, the Eastern Freeway to the north, Doncaster Road to the south, and Bulleen Road to the east.[54]

Famed for its leafy green streets and for it's interwar art deco architecture, the estate is one of the most well known neighbourhoods within the City of Boroondara,[55] with it's entirety being recognized by the Victorian Heritage Register [56]

History

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The estate comes into note in early 1938, when an advertisement of an auction for 41 lots of subdivided blocks of land appeared in an unstated newspaper. The suburb of the estate was then 'Camberwell North', which fell under the local government area of City of Camberwell. The first lots to be sold within the subdivision were auctioned on February 12th.[57] Later that year in December, the neighbourhood was connected by tram with the still operating 48 route being established, and commencing operations from Doncaster road.[1]

Today, following the amalgamation of the Cities of Kew, Camberwell and Hawthorn, the neighbourhood is within the administration of the local government of Boroondara,[58] falling under the council ward of 'Bellevue'. Following multiple seat changes over decades, the neighbourhood's state electorate now falls under the seat Kew, with the federal electorate seat being Kooyong.

Parks

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The neighbourhood has three parks & reserves, being Cascade Park, Corona Reserve, and the largest, Musca Street Reserve. The Musca Street Reserve parkland is shared with the neighbouring suburb of Kew East, with the Burke Road bridge above the Eastern freeway being situated over the reserve. The reserve is most known for being the western end of the Koonung Creek Trail commences, connecting to the neighbouring linear park of Koonung Creek Reserve, which is also in Balwyn North, but in the bordering Panoramic estate. The parkland was used as an administrative site during the construction of the North East Link.[59]

Public transport

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The area is serviced by both a tram line and three bus routes, along with being a regularly mentioned suitable location for a train station to be built along the long-proposed proposed Doncaster railway line.[60][61][62][63]

The neighbourhood's tram line is the 48 route, being stops 45 & 46 along Doncaster Road.[64] This section of the line was part of the original section that was built when the line commenced service on 11 December 1938, shortly after the estate's establishment.[1] Along the tram on Doncaster road, the area is serviced by the 200 & 207 bus routes, and also has the 548 route operating via Burke road.[65]

References

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