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Mildura Fruit Company (MFC) is one of Australia's leading citrus packers and exporters, marketing a full range of citrus fruits around the world. MFC sources quality citrus from approximately 150 growers around our horticultural region.
This large grower base, producing a broad range of varieties, allows MFC to extend supply of fresh citrus to meet our customers requirements. Our largest twenty suppliers deliver greater than 50% of our intake. MFC packs out of a single, very large packing-house, located in Mildura in North West Victoria and employs 40 permanent staff and 150 casual staff to meet seasonal and shift requirements. MFC uses technologically advanced citrus packers, making extensive use of bar code scanning and computerised fruit sizing and sorting equipment.
In recent years, MFC has completed major plant upgrades and shed expansion, to cope with a steady growth in packing and marketing demand. At its peak MFC can pack greater than 3 thousand cartons per hour. MFC’s operation consists of 2 large capacity packing lines that enable the full range of citrus products to be sorted and packed with little interruption throughout the busy harvest season. MFC is well supported by an established, worldwide customer base and in 2010 greater than 70% of MFC's carton production was shipped to overseas destinations. MFC also has significant market share in Australian wholesale markets and supermarkets. |