1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: You would have heard on the news with mel about 2 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Golden North. 3 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 2: Wonderful Brandon essay. 4 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: Didn't we all get behind it when the Adelaide Zoo 5 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: announced a few years ago they'd stop stocking Golden North 6 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: and went to a product that had palm oil instead. 7 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 1: But anyway, they're moving from Laura to murray Bridge. Why 8 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 1: let's find out. Director Demi giriatzis say is on the line. 9 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 1: Dem good evening to you, Thanks for coming on. 10 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, good evening. 11 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 2: Matthew, tell me about the move. Why is it necessary? 12 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,199 Speaker 3: Well, there's been a big decision that we've taken to 13 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 3: just well it's a big question to answer and I'll 14 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 3: can't start at the beginning. So definitely outgrown where we 15 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 3: are up at Laura and the area, the volumes of 16 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 3: ostream that we pump out of that so go all 17 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:52,919 Speaker 3: over Australian also to some international markets. And we're victims 18 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 3: of our own success, so it was necessary to move 19 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 3: to a site that could accommodate us but also try 20 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 3: and take some costs out of our supply chain as 21 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 3: well to remain competitive against all the big boys. And 22 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 3: then we've just moved to Burry Bridges and mentioned it 23 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 3: became available when the bestins could no longer make a 24 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 3: go of it, and then there was an opportunity and 25 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 3: we thought, well, this is the perfect opportunity for us 26 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 3: and our brand, and we work on that. 27 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 2: So their site allows room for growth obviously. 28 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of room for growth. 29 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: Yes, all right, I've heard reports of a change of ownership. 30 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 2: Is that correct? 31 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's been a slight change of ownership. So five 32 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 3: was where the shareholders of the business up until this week. 33 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 3: So and I was one of those five. I remain 34 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 3: one of those. And a good friend of mine, see 35 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 3: he's come into the business as well, and the two 36 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 3: of us are going to move forwards with it and 37 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 3: also invest some money in machinery, production lines, all of 38 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 3: the other stuff that will help us grow into a 39 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 3: factory that can accommodate lots of growth. 40 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 2: All right. 41 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: I saw one of the news services nine Channel nine 42 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: tonight had a crawler on the screen saying, you're abandoning 43 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: Laura got a response to that, are you abandoning the 44 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: town after so many years, so many decades? 45 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 3: It looks definitely not that sounds more like clickbait than 46 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 3: anything else. But we were here today talking through it. 47 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 3: With all the staff, and the staff were very understanding 48 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 3: of why it's necessary, and there's a lot that we're 49 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 3: going to do to assist with the staff at Laura, 50 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 3: a part of what we spoke to them about today. 51 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 3: If any of them would like to continue on their 52 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 3: journey with us in the new factory, we definitely want 53 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 3: to talk to them and work with them to get 54 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 3: them up there if that's what they chose to do, 55 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 3: and a lot of them are excited at opportunity. There's 56 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 3: also a fair bit of work that's gone into the 57 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 3: area on behalf of the essay to the things that 58 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 3: they've put together to assist staff, and also if the 59 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 3: businesses that relied on us being there, there's a fund 60 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:01,959 Speaker 3: there that they can tap into to help them transform 61 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 3: and continue on. But I definitely would not be using 62 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 3: the word of bandon it. All. 63 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,920 Speaker 1: Right, So you are leaving, I mean, wasn't a hard decision. 64 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: It must be wrenching, wouldn't it be to leave a 65 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: place that you've been in for more than ten decades? 66 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: Not you personally obviously, but more than ten decades. 67 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, it was a difficult day today. I still 68 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 3: feel quite emotional about it, but it's about protecting the 69 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 3: brand and making sure it can live for another one 70 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 3: hundred years, and it just gets it continued to be 71 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,239 Speaker 3: more difficult in the countryside up there. And what people 72 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 3: need to understand is every tube of the ice cream 73 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 3: that we make in Laura hasn't it has a six 74 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 3: hundred kilometer round trip add to it. So that's the 75 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 3: sort of things that you can't outpace. You need to 76 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 3: try and remove those expenses from your business to remain competitive. 77 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: So basically trucking the milk from the Flurryo Peninsula where 78 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: all the dairy cows are primarily to Laura, and then 79 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: the product back to Adelaide, that's what you're talking about 80 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: exactly right, Yeah. 81 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 3: And I think it also needs to be said that 82 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 3: our staff at Laura, and you made the point like 83 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 3: they've been working there for a hundred years, that you know, 84 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 3: these people one hundred and two have been dedicated and 85 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 3: have loved that factory and they are the fabric and 86 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 3: the heart and soul of our product that we make. 87 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 3: And you know, we acknowledge their contribution over the last 88 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 3: other years is absolutely outstanding. 89 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: All right, So what's planned for murray Bridge? Well, how 90 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: are you going to take the company further. What new lines? 91 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: You're investigating different products? Is that what it's all about. 92 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, there will be different products and new lines and 93 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 3: all those sorts of things. We've constantly been getting asked 94 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 3: by our customers to make more and more ice cream 95 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 3: from them because we do a great job and you know, 96 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 3: in the last years you constantly have to tell them, sorry, guys, 97 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 3: we can't fit it in. And that's what originally started 98 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 3: this conversation a couple of years ago, what do we 99 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 3: do and then this opportunit obviously came up. So there's 100 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 3: other categories get in two within food, but ice cream 101 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 3: is primarily who we want to be. We want to 102 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 3: maintain the Golden North brand and ice cream. We will 103 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 3: still make it using the same recipes. Some of the 104 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 3: machinery might change and be a bit quicker and handle 105 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 3: bigger volumes, but we still want to be making with 106 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 3: fresh milk, fresh cream and still be one of the 107 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 3: only ice cream companies in Australia to keep it as 108 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,919 Speaker 3: as close to the milk and prem type recipes that 109 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 3: you can have. 110 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: Well, you know, you look at the Royal Show as 111 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 1: an example of your product and in the dairy pavilion 112 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: there where everyone's selling ice cream and different products, so 113 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: yours would have to have the longest cues. I reckon 114 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: in that main part of the hall of people waiting 115 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: to get an ice cream, and I'm usually one of them. 116 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 3: At some point you aree hundred percent correct. It's a 117 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 3: little fun fact for your mess I think we went 118 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 3: through about nineteen thousand tones of ice cream during the 119 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 3: last role show, which is amazing. 120 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, that is amazing, all right, So you want to 121 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: try and and get as many of your staff over 122 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: and from what you say, a lot of very keen 123 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,039 Speaker 1: to do that. Toe that's a big move though. I 124 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: mean they're moving halfway, well not halfway, but a fair 125 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:11,479 Speaker 1: way across the state. 126 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 3: It's a great opportunity in particular, and I don't exclude 127 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 3: the older in particular, for the younger staff, it's a 128 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 3: great opportunity for them to be a part of something 129 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,840 Speaker 3: like this. This is an opportunity that money can't buy, 130 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 3: to be a part of a new factory, help build it, 131 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 3: help grow it all from the ground routs upwards. It's 132 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 3: a great opportunity for those young ones to learn and develop, 133 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 3: including myself. I like to think of myself as young. 134 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:40,119 Speaker 3: Probably not really, but I'm personally and really excited about 135 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,280 Speaker 3: this opportunity and because and yes, at the same time, 136 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 3: today was a hard day talking to all the stuff 137 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 3: about it's a bit emotional as well. But we now 138 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 3: need to look to the future and what we can 139 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 3: do to continue to innovate, continue to grow, and continue 140 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 3: to make the Goldlock brand live for another hundred years. 141 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:00,839 Speaker 3: And I'm hoping that a lot of them from the 142 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 3: conversations that we had today, I'm hoping a lot of 143 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 3: them come on that journey with us. 144 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: There'll be the opportunity for others, I suppose. I mean, 145 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: it'll be a terrible shame for those that do end 146 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: up and stay in the Mid North, but for those 147 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: around murray Bridge and surrounding areas a new opportunity there. 148 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: And if you're going to grow, well, that means more 149 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: jobs down there too, doesn't it. 150 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, And we don't intend to just grow, really want 151 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 3: to turn Golden North into one of the bigger players, 152 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 3: so there will be plenty of opportunities for jobs right 153 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 3: across the whole factory. So it's just not making ice cream, 154 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 3: it's electricians, it's fabricators, it's finner and turners, it's production 155 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 3: staffs office, it goes right across the whole business. 156 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 2: Yeah. 157 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: I see the Dairy Farmers Association, the chief there, the president, 158 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: Robert Brockenshire, has made some comments saying it's an opportunity 159 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: for that will help the entire dairy industry. In essay, 160 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: I suppose if you need if you're going to make 161 00:07:58,360 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 1: more products, you need more milk. 162 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 2: Yeah. 163 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 3: Look when with the exit of Beston, there's a lot 164 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 3: of milk that used to go into those silos there 165 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 3: at murray Bridge, you know, get farms in South Australia 166 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 3: and then process in South Australia. There's a lot of 167 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 3: milk now that those farmers got picked up by you know, 168 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 3: Victorian and multinational companies, which is fine, but it'll be 169 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 3: good for us to be their South Australian on their 170 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 3: back door steps, to collect milk from them, help process 171 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 3: it and then distribute it to other companies that make 172 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 3: other dairy goods as well, because right now they'll be 173 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 3: dragging it from quite a few kilometers away. Yeah. 174 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 2: Absolutely, So what's going to happen to the LAWA facility. 175 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 3: Not surely. I've got a few romantic ideas about that. 176 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 3: I don't want to rush into that decision with Steve, 177 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,439 Speaker 3: the other owner of the company now too quickly. So 178 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 3: I think there could be opportunities for that site, but 179 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 3: I don't know what that means yet. But I was 180 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:02,439 Speaker 3: standing in the car park today looking at the building 181 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 3: and the factory building is it just looks like it's 182 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 3: full of history and things that should be celebrated. We've 183 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:14,200 Speaker 3: invested in other buildings there as well that could be 184 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 3: used for other purposes, for storage for farmers or anything 185 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:20,959 Speaker 3: like that. So we definitely don't want to rush into 186 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:22,839 Speaker 3: any decisions on that one. We're just going to sit 187 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 3: on it for a bit and have a think about it. 188 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 3: But it could produce opportunities for others in the town 189 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 3: that we could collaborate to get something out of that site. 190 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 1: Again, Okay, so you're not thinking like everyone seems to 191 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: in these situations. Gee, we could put a couple of 192 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: townhouses or whatever on this site. Not going down that path, No, 193 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: not that part interesting, DEMI, thank you, good luck with 194 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: the future. I mean, look, what do you say to 195 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 1: people who are terribly disappointed by there? So it sounds 196 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: to me while it's you know, sad on one side, 197 00:09:57,640 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: and you talk about the emotional day you had. It's 198 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,559 Speaker 1: an op ortunity for growth on the other which is good. 199 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:06,199 Speaker 1: Everything stays in South Australia, which is excellent. But for 200 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: people who were disappointed overall, what's your message? 201 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 3: I think the message is just they just need to 202 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 3: please understand that when you make ice cream, you need 203 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 3: milk and there is no milk in the Mid North. 204 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 3: So that's one of the things that drove the decision. 205 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 3: Like I said at the beginning of the interview, everything 206 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 3: that we produced in that factory has a six hundred 207 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 3: kilometer round trip and you need to remain competitive to 208 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:31,120 Speaker 3: stand those grocery shells. So these are the sorts of 209 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 3: decisions we have to make. And I'm sure people would 210 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 3: love to see the Gold North brand live for another 211 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 3: one hundred years. 212 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:38,559 Speaker 1: How did they do it in the old days? You know, 213 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 1: one hundred years ago, what did they get milk from? 214 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 2: Then? 215 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 3: There used to be quite a lot of dairy farmers 216 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 3: in the Mid North and over time, and we're talking 217 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 3: about this today, I think it was around the ninety mark. 218 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 3: If you go back forty years ago, now there's thirteen 219 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 3: really and it's just the way that the weather change 220 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 3: and demographic change up there has driven that. And as 221 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 3: the southeastern corner of of Australia remains good pastoral land, 222 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 3: that the dairying areas tend to gravitate towards that part 223 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 3: of South Australia. So our new plant and factory is 224 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 3: certainly a lot closer to those dairy farms, and also 225 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,439 Speaker 3: on the Sierra Fininciua and through them in India, we're 226 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 3: a lot closer to the where the milk gets milk, 227 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 3: and we can take all those costs out and continue 228 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 3: to be competitive. 229 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the important thing to keep jobs going in 230 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 1: the company, local and all the rest of it. 231 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 3: And I think the most important message is, like you said, 232 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 3: it's still in South Australia being made and it's still 233 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:35,959 Speaker 3: owned by South Australians. It would have been very easy 234 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 3: to sell the company to a Victorian, but we did 235 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 3: not want to do that. We wanted to make sure 236 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 3: it remained here. 237 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. 238 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: Good, all right, de me appreciate your time tonight, Thank you, 239 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: and best wish us moving forward. 240 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 2: So when is this going to happen by Well, look. 241 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 3: We'll still be operating in Laura for another year or so. 242 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 3: There's a lot of work that has to be done 243 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:58,959 Speaker 3: at murray Bridge and we're hoping to be fully fledged 244 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,719 Speaker 3: and manufacturing by the next financial years. There are still 245 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 3: another twelve months away to work with. 246 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 2: Everyone on that terrific appreciate your time. 247 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 3: I appreciate you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 248 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 1: Dimi Kiriasis, who is director and co owner of Golden North, 249 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: which is moving over the next year, as he said, 250 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: from the Mid North to the near southeast of murray Bridge, 251 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: and I mean he's right. You look at the banks 252 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:27,960 Speaker 1: of the Murray along there, it's all dairy farms all 253 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 1: the way down the Fluryo Peninsula. Rob Brogenshier mentioned him 254 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: as president of the Dairy Farmers. His farm is just 255 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: out of Mount Comforts. It's all local, essentially an hour's 256 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: drive as opposed to a three hour drive the other 257 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 1: way for a milk tanker to go. So you know, commercially, 258 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: if you're running the business, you'd say, well, this makes 259 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 1: sense and obviously that's what they're looking at. And given 260 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: as he said, thirteen dairy farmers in the Mid North 261 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: now compared to what was there, it's certainly changed. But look, 262 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: the main thing is they're staying, which is I'm sure 263 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: what we'd all appreciate, and still by South, i e. 264 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: Milk from Golden North and an ice cream as well, 265 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:17,480 Speaker 1: and whatever else comes on supermarket shelves soon by the 266 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: sounds of it, or in the next year or two, 267 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 1: relatively soon. So look positive all all up, I suppose, 268 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 1: apart from the people in Laura and the state government 269 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 1: stepping up with a million dollar community infrastructure program to 270 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: support the township in the transition following Golden North's relocation. 271 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,680 Speaker 1: So they're doing that through the council. There'll be a 272 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 1: number of guess announcements made in due course, but the 273 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 1: council putting out a statement today saying it's a broad 274 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: support package including career transition services for impacted employees and 275 00:13:55,440 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 1: a million dollars initially for community infrastructure improvements. So it's 276 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:04,079 Speaker 1: positive all round, and it's still going to be local 277 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: and south as it, so that's that's the important bit.