Milk masters

A LONGWARRY business has been named as a finalist in the 2010 Telstra Victorian Business Awards, joining other leading firms who are targeting international expansion as part of their growth plans.
Founded in 2001, Longwarry Food Park will compete for the Sensis Social Responsibility Award.
Located in one of Australia’s leading milk producing regions, Longwarry Food Park makes full cream milk powder, fat filled and instant milk powders and is expanding into long-life packaged milk.
In 2005, it opened a recommissioned, energy-efficient, computer-controlled milk processing plant which has created jobs in regional Victoria and exports 90 per cent of its production to 20 countries.
Longwarry Food Park has reduced its water usage by 32 per cent and increased plant capacity from 2.3 to 4 tonnes an hour, using in-house technology.
The business is on a shortlist of 24 small and medium businesses chosen as finalists for this year’s awards which, for the first time in their 18-year-history, offered entrants the chance to get a free Business Health Check.
The Telstra Victorian Business Awards will be announced on 2 July and winners will receive a share of the $400,000 in cash and prizes, become part of an exclusive national business alumni and proceed to the national awards in Sydney on 20 August.