News VanLeeuwen Group
New Zealand group puts 6 dairies up for sale
The New Zealand-based dairy company Van Leeuwen Group has put 9 companies up for sale. This concerns 6 dairy farms and 3 supporting farms.
The purchase includes owned 3.509 hectares of land, extensive infrastructure, irrigation shares and a supply contract with Oceania Dairy, New Zealand media reported. According to Aad and Wilma van Leeuwen, who emigrated from the Netherlands to New Zealand decades ago, it was time to focus on business operations after years of investing and expanding.
Reason for sale
The entrepreneurs have recently developed a new vision for the company, which is primarily aimed at optimizing and expanding their activities in robotic systems for dairy farms. “Our goal is to become the market leader in robotic systems that comply with the latest environmental regulations.”
The animal disease Mycoplasma Bovis was discovered almost 3 years ago on a number of farms of the Van Leeuwen Group. In July 2017, Van Leeuwen was the first entrepreneur to report this animal disease. At the time, there were several dairy farms with infected animals, which subsequently had to be culled. The companies were subsequently restarted and all dairy farms have now been free from the animal disease for more than 1,5 years.
New Zealand itself is not yet completely free of M. Bovis, although the number of infected farms has been greatly reduced. According to the last known figures there are still 26 companies that are struggling with an active infection.
Chanti Oussoren
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