Company Structure

Webster Limited is a diversified food and agribusiness with a strong reputation locally and internationally for the quality of its food produce.

Webster, in recent years has undergone significant change to position itself to meet emerging market opportunities and to become a much slimmer, more efficient and profitable operation.

The company now has a very much simplified structure with two core operating divisions namely:

  		• Field Fresh Tasmania (FFT)
    FFT is based at Forth on the northwest coast of Tasmania. Currently FFT is Australia's largest exporter of brown and red onions. Over 50,000 tonnes of brown and 2,500 tonnes of red onions are grown under contract with local farmers. The onion export industry has been a reliable contributor to the local economy for over 35 years with the main markets being Europe and Germany in particular. Approximately 100 growers are contracted to grow the 52,500 tonnes of onions annually using 900 hectares of rich basaltic soils in north and northwest Tasmania.

  		• Walnuts Australia (WA)
    WA is Australia's largest walnut grower, currently owning and/or managing over 2,200ha in Tasmania and the Riverina area of NSW as well as owning Australia's only commercial walnut nursery. Production from these orchards is set to rise rapidly over the next 4 to 5 years from an actual production of 1,400 tonnes of in-shell walnuts in 2010 to an estimated 11,000 tonnes in 2016. The now well accepted health benefits of consuming nuts, and walnuts in particular, is driving world demand faster than predicted world production. Also, the much improved socio-economic situation in Turkey, China and India is also opening up new markets.

    Both the FFT and WA businesses produce food in the counter season to the northern hemisphere, so for 6 months of the year Webster will have the freshest onions and walnuts in the world!