Wild About Fruit Company

Infobox_Company
company_name = Wild about fruit
company_
company_type = Private Company
company_slogan = None
foundation = Wandin, Victoria, Australia (1930)
location = Wandin, Victoria, Australia
key_people = Ben Mould, Owner and Managing Director
num_employees = 100+
industry = Food (grows, processes, stores and delivers)
products = Fruit juice, gourmet fruit vinegars and More...
revenue = Not disclosed
homepage = [http://www.wildaboutfruit.com.au/ www.wildaboutfruit.com.au] The Wild About Fruit Company is an Australian fruit company, located in Victoria's prime produce area, the Yarra Valley. The company is owned and operated by a third generation of the Mould family. Its main operations take place in Wandin with other properties located at Coldstream, Bacchus Marsh, Gundagai, New South Walescite news | url = http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/29/1030508098553.html | title = Building on the core business | author = Philip Hopkins | date = August 30, 2002 | work = The Age | accessdate = 2007-06-06 ] and Kerang [cite web | url = http://www.gannawarra.vic.gov.au/Page/page.asp?Page_Id=269 | title = New cherry orchard development | date = November 28, 2005 | author = Gannawarra Shire Council | accessdate = 2007-06-06 ] As of 2002, it was growing 40 different of cherries for the domestic and export fresh cherry market. [cite news | author = Miranda Sharp | title = Cherries ripe | url = http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/12/17/1039656382549.html| work = The Age | date = December 17, 2002 | accessdate = 2007-06-06 ] [cite news | title = They're wild about cherries | work = Weekly Times | author = Katie Fisher | date = June 12, 2006| accessdate = 2007-06-06 ]

Wild About Fruit has worked closely with the CSIRO in crating painted juice production, developing juice extraction techniques that allowed a greater percentage of the fruit to be utilised, and deactivating enzymes that would result in a longer shelf-life for the product without the use of preservatives. [cite news | title = Orchard extracts a premium | work = Weekly Times | author = Paul Sellars | date = July 12, 2000| accessdate = 2007-06-07 ] [cite web | url = http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/02/wild_child_the.php | title = Wild Child — The Whole Juice, Nothing But .... | work = treehugger.com | author = Warren McLaren | February 20, 2006 | accessdate = 2007-06-06 ]

In 2004, Wild About Fruit products were endorsed by Planet Ark. [cite web | url = http://www.hopeaustralia.org.au/docs/hope_newsletter_edition_12_october_2004.doc | title = Newsletter | work = HOPE Australia : Householders' Options to Protect the Environment | year = 2004 | month = October | accessdate - 2007-06-06 ]

In September 2005, EPA Victoria fined Wild Juice Pty Ltd $5113 for contravening the requirements of a pollution abatement notice. In May, an EPA inspection had identified an incomplete connection of the site’s new waste treatment plant. [cite web | url = http://epanote2.epa.vic.gov.au/EPA/media.nsf/0/75bee7b37950d803ca25709f00045235?OpenDocument&ExpandSection=1 | work = EPA Victoria | title = Wastewater worry for Wild Juice | date = September 19, 2005 | accessdate = 2007-06-06 ]

Brands

* Wild About Fruit
* Wild Child

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