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SPC Ardmona (SPCA) is last remaining major  fruit and vegetable processor  company in Australia  .SPC Ardmona manages brands that include SPC, Ardmona, Goulburn Valley, IXL, Southern Cross and Taylor’s. SPCA owns a canning factory in Shepparton  and another one Kyabram , Victoria. SPCA closed its Mooroopna processing plant in 2011, which impacted local economy as it was the main source of income of that area.

SPC Ardmona was formed in 2002 through union of Shepparton Preserving Company and Ardmona.On 25 February 2005, Coca-Cola Amatil took over SPCA.

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During the year 2009 Australia’s leading soft drink company Coca-Cola Amatil, recorded profit of $189.8 million. Amatil’s Food & Services division, which struggled due to the recent droughts in the country, made a significant improvement. Their foundation food business – SPC Ardmona also made progress in all major categories – fruit, fruit snacks, baked beans & spaghetti, and after the completion and re-structuring of SPCA’s operations in the Goulburn Valley $3 million  of profit was recorded by the company

However significant rise in imported private label products started negative impact on the Australian food manufacturing sector. Later during mid-2010 SPC Ardmona cut down canning quotas and informed their supplier that they will not be able to deal with all the peaches and pear produced in the coming season. It was reduced by 25%.

Then started to develop concerns for SPC Ardmona brand which resulted in large job cuts and closure of their Mooroopna plant in 2011 which use to produce canned tomatoes, bulk-packed tomato pastes and crushed tomato products. In 2012 Victorian Government gave 3.9 million to the company to help save some jobs that were lost due to reorganization of SPC Ardmona which was in crisis due to high increase of imported food.

Rising costs and the considerable strengthening of the Australian dollar tainted the trading business significantly for Australian manufacturers and SPC Ardmona cut-back affected Australian farmers. SPC started effecting Coca-Cola Amatil results. There was 22% drop in CCA revenue. Overall, there was 2 per cent rise in alcohol, food & services due to a good amount of revenue from spirits and alcoholic beverages but there was a decline in SPC Ardmona earnings

To save the local food industry SPC Ardmona requested the Australian government to place emergency tariffs on cheap imported products as the market share of imported processed fruits and tomatoes had grown to 58%.  Labels on the products were pretty confusing for the local people. Woolworths had products labelled from South Africa whereas Coles had products labelled as made from local and imported ingredients

SPC Ardmona requested to Productivity Commission to run safeguard inquiries on the foreign import fruits and tomatoes which are impacting the Australian local market. The World trade Organization members   investigated under the Safeguards Agreement whether tariffs on imported processed fruits and tomatoes are suitable to apply SPC Ardmona appreciated the announcement that new Anti-Dumping Commission has started a investigation into peaches being imported from South Africa and tomatoes imported from Italy.

But SPC Ardmona was disappointment in the Productivity Commission’s final report, which declined to put provisional safeguard tariffs on imported processed tomato and fruit products. In October 2013 the company asked financial help from the Federal and Victorian governments. SPCA asked for total $50 million which included 25$ million from state and 25$ million from federal

The Australian Government’s decided not to invest $25 million in SPC Ardmona raised more concerns for the local company. Mr Tony Abbott spoke against SPCA agreement with AMNU (Australian Manufacturing Workers Union). Mr Abbott said it be  ‘‘pretty extraordinary’’, with worker still  getting wet allowances, overtime, ability to cash out sick pay, and redundancy payouts of up to two years. Later SPC Ardmona responded to government claim about workers’ “over generous” allowances by showing facts and figures which was totally opposite to what Mr Tony Abbot claimed.

Recently however, the Victorian Government announced that to provide $22 million to SPCA. Government said it will give $22 million with a future $100 million investment in the company (which included $78 million from its parent CCA company) to re construct the Shepparton plant.SPC Ardmona promised to have assured full-time employment for at least 500 employees as per the agreement. Recently SPCA signed a deal with Woolworths to supply 24,000 tonnes of extra local product which is worth $70 million over the next 5 years. It includes beans, canned tomato soups and all its home brand fruit.

SPCA managing director, Peter Kelly said that Australian local customers are supporting their products in spite of the entire recent crisis due to which sales in the first 2 months of 2014 increased by 60% at Woolworths alone.

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