Key Facts

Fonterra is the world's largest diversified milk processing company and one of the world's top producers of dairy nutrition for export, including milk powders, cheese and butter.

We have substantial interests in consumer branded businesses across Asia, Latin America, Australia and our home market of New Zealand.

Fonterra has built strong partnerships with other leading global dairy companies through supply chain integration and innovation. We sell our products globally in more than 100 countries with sales and marketing being managed through our principal hubs in Auckland, Singapore, Tokyo, Santiago, Shanghai, Melbourne, Dubai, Mexico City, Chicago and Amsterdam.

All our operations are aligned either with the processing of dairy nutrition or sales of branded products to consumers.

Company Overview
Total Assets EmployedNZ$15,1 billion*
Total EquityNZ$6.7 billion*
Annual TurnoverNZ$19.8 billion
Dairy Ingredients Manufactured New Zealand2.4 million metric tonnes*
Total Ingredients Sales Volumes2.7 million metric tonnes*
Employees17,300*
Shareholders10,578*

*Data correct as at 31 July 2012  Source: - Fonterra's annual report 2012



                            FY2012 Normalised EBIT by Segment1,2 



  1. FY2012 normalised EBIT before net finance costs and tax, and includes share of profit from equity accounted investments. 
  2. Includes intersegment eliminations of ($14m), which is represented by 'Other'.


                                        Revenue by geography