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Adding Value to RiceBurdekin Value-Adding Seminar
SunRice General ManagerGlobal Consumer Markets, David Keldie
15th May 2015
§ Began in 1950 as a grower cooperative
§ Now a $1billion global food business:
− One of the world’s largest rice food companies
− One of Australia’s largest branded processed food exporters
− Innovation is the key to our success
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SunRice Overview
Our Global Presence
§ Markets in approximately 60 countries
§ Feed more than 20 million people every day
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Health & Wellbeing
Gourmet
Everyday
Retail$3.80 / kg
Retail$6.00 / kg
Retail $10.00 / kg
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Innovation and the Value Chain
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North Queensland Provenance Positioning
SunRice harvests and packs rice grown in the lush, rich, abundant landscape of tropical North Queensland …..Nature’s Utopia.
A perfect combination of a delightful aroma, soft mouth feel and intensely delicious flavour, SunRice North Queensland rice is simply a taste of paradise.
Australian Rice Crop Size – recovered remarkably well post drought(2006-2015, ‘000 tonnes)
1,038
167
19 66
205
800
963
1,161
2013
Crop Size(‘000 tonnes)
829
2012201120102009200820072006 2014Drought period
2015
700
Demand
NorthQueensland
Imports
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North Queensland Tapping into the Demand Opportunity