Deals

Global food and agriculture sector lead Taryn Goodman said the fund’s portfolio companies are well placed to support local income and benefit from increasing affluence.

One Tree Agriculture lists properties after completing sale of another Queensland aggregation earlier this year to Canadian pension PSP.

Co-founder and co-chief executive Dustin Beck says Butterfly worked with OTPP’s direct investing unit on the acquisition of a majority stake in Orgain earlier this month.

The Chinese firm sold one of the smaller properties in its portfolio due to a restructure, with the sale value understood to be north of A$13.2 million.

Undertakings by ANZ Terminals to divest a facility in South Australia and to exclude a facility at Port Kembla from the deal alleviates competition concerns, the competition watchdog said.

Ascendant Partners’ Mark Warren says growing consumer demand and product innovation helped bring strategic and financial investor interest in the Organic Ventures’ unit offering grains like quinoa, durum and spelt.

The listed asset manager, which has been under fire from short-sellers in recent months, has sold the assets in NSW and Victoria because they are ‘better suited to business with greater economies of scale’ like ProTen.

The competition watchdog has pushed back a decision for a second time. The review was triggered by concerns that the purchase by ANZ Terminals would ‘remove a significant competitor’ from the market.

Hancock chair Gina Rinehart said Warrabah would allow ‘increased scale’ and ‘greater operational flexibility’ for its 23,000 head Wagyu herd.

The publicly traded REIT said the acquisition is in line with its strategy of buying or converting farmland from conventional to organic farms