Meadow Lea
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Meadow Lea is one of Australia's
leading brands of polyunsaturated margarine
spreads, founded in Sydney
by 1932 and owned since 1986 by the Australasian food public company
Goodman Fielder
.
, Sydney, but had its origins about 4 years earlier in Richmond
, Melbourne
, where Triggs owned a small Grocery store
. In about 1934 Triggs hired James (Jim) Armstrong as a Sales Manager (on commission) for the N.S.W.
country regions. In 1941 Triggs and Armstrong reached an agreement whereby Armstrong would sell his approximate 25% sales commission share in the Meadow Lea Margarine Company to Triggs' son when he turned 21 in 1945. In 1945 Armstrong sold his commission interests in Meadow Lea to Triggs' son Kenneth (Ken), with Armstrong retiring from the company. In about 1956 Oliver and Ken Triggs sold the Meadow Lea Margarine Company to Vegetable Oils Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of the publicly listed company Allied Mills Ltd. On 30 April 1986 Allied Mills was taken over by Fielder Gillespie Davis Limited, part of the Goodman Group Ltd (New Zealand), to create Goodman Fielder Ltd. In 1987 Goodman Fielder Ltd purchased Wattie Industries Ltd (New Zealand)
, becoming Goodman Fielder Wattie Ltd, only to divest Wattie Foods Ltd to H. J. Heinz Company
in 1992 and return to being called Goodman Fielder Ltd. In 2003 Goodman Fielder Limited was acquired by Burns, Philp & Company Limited
, being relisted again in 2005.
, then trained as a talior, before opening a corner grocery shop and making copha butter, moving to Sydney in about 1931 when copha butter was banned in Victoria
(to support the butter industry and pure butter sales). He was married to Nita Alice Bek (1895-1974) and had four children, Kenneth, Audray and Marian (twins), and Jill. From about 1935 until 1975 the family home was Edgewater, 3 Sutherland Crescent, Darling Point
, bought from the Wirth Bros Circus family, with its water front gardens (including a tennis court and swimming pool) being sold to the neighbouring Carthona in about the 1950s when Edgewater was divided into three homes (one on each floor) with Triggs retaining the top floor. In about 1939-45 Triggs owned the 2,000-acre Kyalla Park sheep farm and horse stud near Orange
, which had the first electrified sheep shearing shed in Australia (built in about 1910 by the previous owners, the Stuart family), being slowly divided up and sold off by its subsequent owner, so that it is now around 150 acres and owned since about 1980 by the Napier family.
(1924 - ) the only son of Oliver Triggs, was a director and 25% shareholder in Meadow Lea from 1945 until the company's sale in about 1956. He subsequently became a farmer and Chairman of the NSW Egg Board, a manufacturer of polystyrene containers, Chairman of Mutual Home Loans Fund of Australia Limited and Information Electronics Limited, and from 2003 the Secretary of the Auburn RSL sub-Branch, for which he was made a Life Member of the RSL in 2008 and received the Order of Australia Medal in 2011. He was married in 1950 to Ruth Donnison (divorced c1976, with two sons, David and Andrew) and in c1985 to Anne-Lesley Woodward.
, In 1942 it had a machine gun mounted on it. After the War radio station 2GB bought her for the use of personality Jack Davey, Since this time she has had several owners and refits . The Munro Family who have owned her since 1982 commissioned a major rebuild and refit on her 60th birthday in 1999 and at the time of writing in August 2011 she is in pristine condition, moored at RQYS Manly
heritage listed residential home named Meadow Lea at 22 Sydney Road, East Lindfield
, Sydney, was built on 4 housing plots and completed in about 1941 for James Armstrong, at the time the Sales Manager of the Meadow Lea Margarine Company. It was sold in 1948 for £17,000 to Azzalin Romano, of the nightclub restaurant Romanos, who had sold his racehorse Bernborough
in 1946 to Louis B. Mayer
for £93,000. In 1955 the house was sold for £25,000. In 1996 it was purchased by Victoria's Basement co-founder Daniel Kalanderian, who added a new wing and placed it for sale in September 2010 for $7.5m with Belle Property.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
leading brands of polyunsaturated margarine
Margarine
Margarine , as a generic term, can indicate any of a wide range of butter substitutes, typically composed of vegetable oils. In many parts of the world, the market share of margarine and spreads has overtaken that of butter...
spreads, founded in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
by 1932 and owned since 1986 by the Australasian food public company
Public company
This is not the same as a Government-owned corporation.A public company or publicly traded company is a limited liability company that offers its securities for sale to the general public, typically through a stock exchange, or through market makers operating in over the counter markets...
Goodman Fielder
Goodman Fielder
Goodman Fielder is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of bread, small goods, dairy products, margarine, oil, dressings and various food ingredients. Its main operations are in New Zealand and Australia...
.
History
The brand Meadow Lea was founded by Oliver Triggs by 1932 in EnmoreEnmore, New South Wales
Enmore is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Enmore is located 5 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of Marrickville Council.-History:...
, Sydney, but had its origins about 4 years earlier in Richmond
Richmond, Victoria
Richmond is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Yarra...
, Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, where Triggs owned a small Grocery store
Grocery store
A grocery store is a store that retails food. A grocer, the owner of a grocery store, stocks different kinds of foods from assorted places and cultures, and sells these "groceries" to customers. Large grocery stores that stock products other than food, such as clothing or household items, are...
. In about 1934 Triggs hired James (Jim) Armstrong as a Sales Manager (on commission) for the N.S.W.
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
country regions. In 1941 Triggs and Armstrong reached an agreement whereby Armstrong would sell his approximate 25% sales commission share in the Meadow Lea Margarine Company to Triggs' son when he turned 21 in 1945. In 1945 Armstrong sold his commission interests in Meadow Lea to Triggs' son Kenneth (Ken), with Armstrong retiring from the company. In about 1956 Oliver and Ken Triggs sold the Meadow Lea Margarine Company to Vegetable Oils Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of the publicly listed company Allied Mills Ltd. On 30 April 1986 Allied Mills was taken over by Fielder Gillespie Davis Limited, part of the Goodman Group Ltd (New Zealand), to create Goodman Fielder Ltd. In 1987 Goodman Fielder Ltd purchased Wattie Industries Ltd (New Zealand)
Wattie's
Wattie's or Heinz Wattie's Limited is a New Zealand-based food producer of frozen and packaged fruit, vegetables, sauces, baby food, cooking sauces, dressings and pet foods....
, becoming Goodman Fielder Wattie Ltd, only to divest Wattie Foods Ltd to H. J. Heinz Company
H. J. Heinz Company
The H. J. Heinz Company , commonly known as Heinz and famous for its "57 Varieties" slogan and its ketchup, is an American food company with world headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Perhaps best known for its ketchup, the H.J...
in 1992 and return to being called Goodman Fielder Ltd. In 2003 Goodman Fielder Limited was acquired by Burns, Philp & Company Limited
Burns Philp
Burns Philp was once a major player in the food manufacturing business. Since its delisting from the Australian Stock Exchange in December 2006 and the subsequent sale of its assets, the company has mainly become a cashed up shell company...
, being relisted again in 2005.
Products
In 2010 the MeadowLea® product range consisted of 6 varieties:- Original
- SaltSaltIn chemistry, salts are ionic compounds that result from the neutralization reaction of an acid and a base. They are composed of cations and anions so that the product is electrically neutral...
Reduced - CanolaCanolaCanola refers to a cultivar of either Rapeseed or Field Mustard . Its seeds are used to produce edible oil suitable for consumption by humans and livestock. The oil is also suitable for use as biodiesel.Originally, Canola was bred naturally from rapeseed in Canada by Keith Downey and Baldur R...
- Light
- Extra Light
- DairyDairy productDairy products are generally defined as foods produced from cow's or domestic buffalo's milk. They are usually high-energy-yielding food products. A production plant for such processing is called a dairy or a dairy factory. Raw milk for processing comes mainly from cows, and, to a lesser extent,...
Free
Oliver Triggs
Oliver Francis Triggs (1895-1962) founded the Meadow Lea table margarine brand by 1932 and was the first person in Australia to manufacture table margarine, finally selling Meadow Lea to Allied Mills in about 1956. Triggs was born in Melbourne on a small farm, fought with the Light Horse in WWIWorld War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
, then trained as a talior, before opening a corner grocery shop and making copha butter, moving to Sydney in about 1931 when copha butter was banned in Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
(to support the butter industry and pure butter sales). He was married to Nita Alice Bek (1895-1974) and had four children, Kenneth, Audray and Marian (twins), and Jill. From about 1935 until 1975 the family home was Edgewater, 3 Sutherland Crescent, Darling Point
Darling Point, New South Wales
Darling Point is a harbourside, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Darling Point is located 4 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of Woollahra Council....
, bought from the Wirth Bros Circus family, with its water front gardens (including a tennis court and swimming pool) being sold to the neighbouring Carthona in about the 1950s when Edgewater was divided into three homes (one on each floor) with Triggs retaining the top floor. In about 1939-45 Triggs owned the 2,000-acre Kyalla Park sheep farm and horse stud near Orange
Orange, New South Wales
Orange is a city in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. It is west of the state capital, Sydney, at an altitude of . Orange has an estimated population of 39,329 and the city is a major provincial centre....
, which had the first electrified sheep shearing shed in Australia (built in about 1910 by the previous owners, the Stuart family), being slowly divided up and sold off by its subsequent owner, so that it is now around 150 acres and owned since about 1980 by the Napier family.
Ken Triggs
Kenneth Oliver Triggs OAMOrder of Australia
The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...
(1924 - ) the only son of Oliver Triggs, was a director and 25% shareholder in Meadow Lea from 1945 until the company's sale in about 1956. He subsequently became a farmer and Chairman of the NSW Egg Board, a manufacturer of polystyrene containers, Chairman of Mutual Home Loans Fund of Australia Limited and Information Electronics Limited, and from 2003 the Secretary of the Auburn RSL sub-Branch, for which he was made a Life Member of the RSL in 2008 and received the Order of Australia Medal in 2011. He was married in 1950 to Ruth Donnison (divorced c1976, with two sons, David and Andrew) and in c1985 to Anne-Lesley Woodward.
HMAS Sea Mist
HMAS Sea Mist was a Halvorsen Cruiser built by Lars Halverson in 1939 for motor racing identy Hope Bartlett. It was commandeared by the navy when war broke out and after much haggling Hope Bartlet was paid 4000 pounds notwithstanding a loyds valuation of 5,500 pounds. Having been commandeered by the Australian Navy in 1942 when Japan entered WWII she was credited with the sinking of the Japanese midget submarine during its attack on Sydney Harbour on 30 May 1942. Sea Mist was built in 1939 by Lars Halvorsen of Neutral BayNeutral Bay, New South Wales
Neutral Bay is a harbourside suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Neutral Bay is located 5 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of North Sydney Council....
, In 1942 it had a machine gun mounted on it. After the War radio station 2GB bought her for the use of personality Jack Davey, Since this time she has had several owners and refits . The Munro Family who have owned her since 1982 commissioned a major rebuild and refit on her 60th birthday in 1999 and at the time of writing in August 2011 she is in pristine condition, moored at RQYS Manly
Meadow Lea house
The Art DecoArt Deco
Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...
heritage listed residential home named Meadow Lea at 22 Sydney Road, East Lindfield
East Lindfield, New South Wales
East Lindfield is a locality on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. East Lindfield is located 13 kilometres north-west of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council....
, Sydney, was built on 4 housing plots and completed in about 1941 for James Armstrong, at the time the Sales Manager of the Meadow Lea Margarine Company. It was sold in 1948 for £17,000 to Azzalin Romano, of the nightclub restaurant Romanos, who had sold his racehorse Bernborough
Bernborough
Bernborough was an outstanding Australian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who competed from 1941 to 1946. He carried heavy weights to victory in a sequence of 15 consecutive wins that included the Doomben 10,000 carrying 10 stone 5 pounds....
in 1946 to Louis B. Mayer
Louis B. Mayer
Louis Burt Mayer born Lazar Meir was an American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in its golden years. Known always as Louis B...
for £93,000. In 1955 the house was sold for £25,000. In 1996 it was purchased by Victoria's Basement co-founder Daniel Kalanderian, who added a new wing and placed it for sale in September 2010 for $7.5m with Belle Property.