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Chicken producer Ingham doubles size of SA operations

Monday, 16 May 2016 10:34:51 | Nick Harmsen

Chicken producer Ingham will spend $275 million doubling the size of its South Australian operations, creating an additional 850 jobs in the process, the company says.

Key points:

  • Taxpayers will fund $3.7 million of Ingham's $275 million expansion
  • 15 sites throughout SA will be upgraded
  • 385 direct jobs will be created at the company, plus 465 contractor positions

The money will be spent throughout Ingham's production chain, including breeding, hatching, processing, feed production and product distribution at 15 sites.

Sites included in the expansion are Bolivar, Edinburgh Parks and Dry Creek as well as Monarto, Yumali, Murray Bridge and other sites in the Murraylands.

The company expects to directly employ an additional 385 employees, and support 465 new positions with contractor firms.

State taxpayers will help pay for the expansion with a $3.7 million investment — $2.8 million from the Regional Development Fund and $900,000 from Investment Attraction South Australia.

Premier Jay Weatherill said the expansion positioned South Australia as a "strategic national centre" for Ingham.

"Food production is a growing sector of our state's economy and we are supplying the business conditions that make investing here a wise choice," he said.

"This expansion will create hundreds of new direct and indirect jobs for South Australians with a focus on two key areas — northern Adelaide and the Murraylands."

Ingham executive chairman Mick McMahon said the company would look to target workers set to lose their jobs in car manufacturing.

"We have started discussions on how we can tap into the skilled workforce in northern Adelaide and provide new opportunities to those displaced by the closure of car manufacturing," he said.

"We have already employed some people from this industry in leading positions."

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