Historical document
Facilitating supply chain alliances with South American citrus industries (CT03034)
Publication date: June 30, 2005
Delivery Partner: Australian Citrus Growers
This is a final research report from Hort Innovation’s historical archives. Please note that as these reports may date back as far as the 1990s, the content and recommendations within them may be superseded by more recent research.
Alliances between southern hemisphere counties became more important as large retailers looked at category management for long lines of supply.
Australian Citrus Growers Inc (ACG) had a policy to forge alliances with southern hemisphere countries and had a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with South Africa for supplying the United States.
It was expected that Uruguay, Peru, Argentina and Chile would be allowed access to the US within the next two years after this report being published. ACG believed that Australia would benefit if an arrangement similar to that with South Africa existed with South American countries.
A delegation consisting of Peter Davidson, ACG president; Peter Walker, chairman Riversun; Steve Allen, general manager Riversun; Mike Arnold, chairman Auscitrus; Piet Smit chairman USA Citrus South Africa; Gerrit van der Merwe, chairman Western Cape Citrus Growers; and David Mixon, vice president DNE World Fruit Sales, visited Uruguay and Peru to gain an understanding of both countries’ citrus industries and their export strategies to the US market.
Key objectives of the visit were to gain an understanding of both countries’ Citrus Industries and their export strategies into the US market. Also, it was hoped that the exporters of Uruguay and Peru were able to gain knowledge on how cooperative marketing between Australia and South Africa was operating at the time.
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This historical project was a strategic levy investment in the Hort Innovation Citrus Fund
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