Please accept this update to the end of week 35 or Sunday 3 September. Fruit is travelling remarkably well and all sites are reporting low fruit loss and commenting on the fantastic crop delivered to us by growers in 2017. It is truly remarkable, we had a relatively rain interrupted harvest, patches of soft fruit throughout the harvest, some lines with high rejects, and a delay in some SunGold harvest as fruit met minimum thresholds resulting in fruit being harvested later than optimal and yet in both Hayward and SunGold our fruit loss is extremely low.
SunGold is nearly all fully shipped with only 62k trays in store and nearly all ordered. Offshore fruit quality remains excellent. No issues to report.
Hayward conventional continues to present well with low losses. There is just under 2.4m trays in store and 891k trays on order. Losses remain low and tracking below industry average, and offshore fruit quality continues to be excellent.
Hayward organic has been over ordered early and we are in discussions with Zespri about how to rectify this issue. Our fruit loss is extremely low but the time earnings impacted by having a percentage overshare drawn early.
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INVENTORY PERFORMANCE AS AT 31/7 |
HAYWARD CONVENTIONAL |
HAYWARD ORGANIC |
SWEETGREEN G14 |
SUNGOLD G3 |
SUNGOLD ORGANIC |
TOTAL |
|
Packed |
14,799,410 |
687,406 |
90,038 |
8,542,692 |
116,757 |
24,236,303 |
|
Shipped |
12,367,370 |
641,329 |
89,778 |
8,418,554 |
112,175 |
21,629,206 |
|
Instore |
2,393,636 |
45,045 |
- |
62,319 |
1,035 |
2,502,035 |
|
On Order |
891,609 |
31,623 |
|
43,436 |
|
966,668 |
|
Lost - TE |
38,404 |
1,032 |
260 |
61,819 |
3,547 |
|
|
Lost % |
0.26% |
0.15% |
0.29% |
0.72% |
3.04% |
|
|
Industry Lost % |
0.30% |
0.34% |
0.23% |
0.70% |
2.07% |
|
|
Estimate time $ |
$2,089,227 |
$102,735 |
-$3,905 |
$1,531,767 |
$20,935 |
|
|
per tray |
$ 0.141 |
$ 0.149 |
-$0.043 |
$0.179 |
$0.179 |
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Labour issues have been highlighted this week with KGI and Zespri announcing plans that all contractors and subcontractors will have to be listed on a public register and independently audited if the orchard is to be compliant with the new GRASP accreditations system [GRASP is the new streamlined GLOBALGAP]. The work that Seeka and its contractor community have and continue to do, to ensure legal compliance must be recognised by any industry solution. No doubt there is more to follow on this topic.
Regards,
Michael
Seeka Key
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