Mundella Foods
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Dairy company
Founded in 1974. Acquired by Chinese state-owned enterprise Bright Foods through its Australian subsidiary Manassen Foods in Jan 2014.
Company Ownership
Mundella Foods Pty Ltd | AUS | website | ||||
Manassen Foods Australia Pty Ltd ![]() owns 100% of Mundella Foods Pty Ltd |
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Food importer and marketer Manassen Foods markets many leading consumer brands including Trident. In April 2006 Manassen Foods acquired The Great Southern Foods group, King Oscar and Hutchinsons (NZ), and turned the business into a new company with CHAMP Pty Ltd having a 51 per cent stake. Bought Sunbeam Foods in 2007. China's Bright Food bought 75% of the company in late 2011. | ||||||
Bright Food (Group) Co Ltd ![]() owns 75% of Manassen Foods Australia Pty Ltd |
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Large food conglomerate State-owned Bright Food was established in 2006 amid a series of mergers and consolidations of Chinese state-owned assets, and today is China's largest food company. Shanghai's municipal government is the company's controlling stakeholder. Acquired 75% of Manassen Foods in Nov 2011. | ||||||
» Government of the People's Republic of China ![]() owns 100% of Bright Food (Group) Co Ltd |
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Communist government All power within the government of the People's Republic of China is divided among three bodies: the Chinese Communist Party, State Council, and the People's Liberation Army. In recent years China has been consolidating it's state-owned assets and inviting private investors to invest (often family members of high ranking government officials), however in most cases the government retains control and majority ownership. We have listed State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) simply as subsidiaries of China's government, although in reality company ownership is often more complex. |
Company Assessment
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Mundella Foods Pty Ltd | ||||
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Manassen Foods Australia Pty Ltd | ||||
Signatory to the Australian Packaging Covenant, a voluntary agreement to encourage waste minimisation.
Source: Australian Packaging Covenant (2020) |
Some, but not necessarily all, of this company's products are palm oil free. For more details, follow the link to see Borneo Orangutan Survival Australia's list of products which manufacturers have told them are palm oil free or contain segregated certified sustainable palm oil.
Source: BOS Australia (2020)
Monkeys in Thailand are kept chained, trained using abusive methods, and forced to climb trees to pick coconuts used for coconut milk, oil, and other products. This company has policies of sourcing from farms where no monkey labour is used.
Source: PETA Asia (2020) |
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Bright Food (Group) Co Ltd | ||||
This company received a score of 6.1/100 (retrieved 10-Oct-2020) in the Corporate Information Transparency Index (CITI), a system for evaluating supply chain practices in China, particularly in regards to environmental management and water pollution. Scores are calculated using government compliance data, online monitoring data, and third-party environmental audits, as well as trends in the environmental performance of factories in the company's supply chains.
Source: IPE (2020)
The Forest 500 identifies, ranks, and tracks the governments, companies and financial institutions worldwide that together could virtually eradicate tropical deforestation. Rankings are based on their public policies and commitments and potential impacts on tropical forests in the context of forest risk commodities (palm oil, soy, beef, leather, timber and paper). This company received a score of 0%.
Source: Forest 500 (2019) |
The registered capital of Bright Group is 3.43 billion RMB, in which State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Shanghai Municipal Government (Shanghai SASAC) accounts for 50.43%, Shanghai DaSheng Holdings Co., Ltd. invests 20.41%, and each of Shanghai State-owned Assets Operation Co., Ltd., SHENERGY Group, Shanghai International Group, Shanghai industrial Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. and Shanghai JiuShi holds 5.832% respectively.
Source: company website (2012) |
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Government of the People's Republic of China | ||||
Amnesty International has documented widespread human rights violations in China during 2011. An estimated 500,000 people are currently enduring punitive detention without charge or trial, and millions are unable to access the legal system to seek redress for their grievances. Harassment, surveillance, house arrest, and imprisonment of human rights defenders are on the rise, and censorship of the Internet and other media has grown. Repression of minority groups, including Tibetans, Uighurs and Mongolians, and of Falun Gong practitioners and Christians who practice their religion outside state-sanctioned churches continues. While the recent reinstatement of Supreme People's Court review of death penalty cases may result in lower numbers of executions, China remains the leading executioner in the world.
Source: Amnesty International (2012)
This 2012 report by Human Rights Watch documents a wide-range of criticisms of the Chinese government's human rights record from events of 2011.
Source: Human Rights Watch (2012) |
Source: Wikipedia with links (2011)
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Company Details
Type | Wholly-owned subsidiary |
Employees | 40 in 2014 |
Aus Manufacturing | Yes |
Contact Details
Address | 46 Randell Rd, Mundijong, WA, 6123, Australia |
Phone | 08 9525 5754 |
Fax | 08 9525 5764 |
Website | www.mundellafoods.com.au |