Petersville

Petersville Australia Limited was an Australian public company which specialized in dairy food product manufacture, distribution and marketing until its takeover by Adelaide Steamship Company in the 1980s.

This article is about the Australian food product company. For other uses, see Petersville (disambiguation).

Petersville
IndustryDairy Products
FateAcquired by H.C. Sleigh Co.
Defunct1981 (1981)
Headquarters
Australia
Abandoned Peters Ice Cream Factory Taree, New South Wales

Petersville was noted for establishing Peters Ice Cream in the 1929[1] by its American founder and businessman Fred Peters. It diversified into all areas of dairy food manufacture by the 1960s. It taken over by H.C. Sleigh Co. in 1981, and delisted in 1983.[2] After its takeover by Adelaide Steamship, Petersville's divisions were broken up, notably the ice cream division was sold to the Swiss international food giant Nestlé.

Some of the foods it produced or distributed were: ice cream, yogurt, cheese, butter and imported cheeses. Its head office (now Nestle Australia's) was in Wellington Road, Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia, which was itself known as Petersville.

Petersville had dairy production plants at Warragul, Trafalgar and Yarragon in Victoria and at Orange, Taree and Grafton in New South Wales.

References
  1. "HEALTHY OUTLOOK FOR PETERSVILLE". Australian Financial Review. 18 July 1991. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  2. "PETERSVILLE AUSTRALIA LIMITED". deListed AUSTRALIA. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
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