Mothballed meat works up for sale

25th November 2020 By Staff Reporter | news@foodticker.co.nz | @foodtickernz

A former Wilson Hellaby meat processing plant in Thames is up for sale, after the company mothballed it a few months ago to move to a new business model. 

The firm had been operating the Ngati Maru Highway, Coromandel Peninsula site as an abattoir since the 1960s but the property was not being offered as a functioning meat works operation. 

It included over 3000 square metres worth of buildings, 1.64 hectares of land and was used as a back-up butchery facility to provide additional capacity for Wilson Hellaby’s Auckland and Hamilton meat killing and processing plants.