Green Farms Nut Company

Green Farms Nut Company (Pty) Ltd was established in 1991, as the first privately owned Macadamia processing factory in South Africa, as is now the largest processor of Macadamia kernel world-wide.

Our factories are situated near White River (Mpumalanga), Levubu (Limpopo Province) and Ramsgate (Kwa-Zulu Natal). We also have an association with a production facility in Malawi. Each year we carry out modifications to our factories to ensure that we keep pace with the increasing size of the macadamia crop, and new technical developments in macadamia processing and food safety. Our modern factories are HACCP, ISO 22000, and we are the fist Macadamia processor globally to be accredited with FSSC 22000.

In 2010 Green Farms (GFNC) started a marketing joint venture company with one of Australia’s largest macadamia processors Suncoast Gold. The marketing company is called Green and Gold Nuts (G&G) www.greenandgoldnuts. Green and Gold is the largest macadamia marketer in the world, where we are progressive and sophisticated in developing the world’s macadamia markets. Other nut producing and processing facilities have seen G&G’s value and joined the group. Stahmann Farms (Australia), Thyolo (Malawi) and Queen Nut (Brazil) are now onboard growing our nut basket even further, making us the preferred partner for all major macadamia customers globally.

In terms of our services to growers we offer a very unique business model. We act as a toll processor and marketing agent on behalf of the growers and pay a 100% profit share to growers should we sell over and above the indicative price or should there be any additional exchange rate benefit. G&G has provided our farmers with crop security and this has on average allowed Green Farms to pay the highest prices to farmers in South Africa industry by some margin.

GFNC in contrast to competitors does not force growers to sign supply agreements who get locked in with no other marketing option, our growers have tested the market and remain loyal to us because we continuously offer the best price and service in the industry.

In summary growers supply as because of the following:

- We don’t lock them in with supply agreements. They can leave at any time and keep their freedom of choice. They choose us because we do the best job.

- We have a unique business model that gives growers maximum return for their crop through our profit share.

- Our marketing arm Green & Gold Nuts is the most sophisticated and has a long-term strategy. We market in every major market in the world and are not exposed to any market more than 20%.