Please accept this report to the end of week 22 [Sunday 1 June].
We are in the home straight! Our teams should finish harvesting tomorrow and packing on Sunday - all things being equal. The weather forecast looks to be cooperative so we should get a straight run to the finish. The late fruit quality and yields has been good and the brix levels manageable.
Our pack-houses have been running at full capacity. They have appreciated the better quality lines that have come through recently as they have still had to contend with some hail lines. Generally the sheds have been settled and well into their work looking for that elusive last bin.
On the safety front, there was a nasty incident at Transpack last week. A cleaner leaned in against a machine and got her hairnet caught in a drive shaft. She subsequently lost a proportion of her hair. Thankfully this accident will leave no lasting damage and she will fully recover from this painful event. We have reemphasized our safety advisories for cleaners, especially our protocol for cleaning under machines which requires the machine to be stopped with a hold in place.
The statistics as at End Wk 22
Hayward
Seeka Packed: 13,985,243 trays Industry 62,331,173 trays [Seeka = 24.0%]
Average reject rate: 17.24% Average size 33.01
In store 8,609,450 trays
On order week 23 819,572 trays
On order week 24 198,820 trays
We now have only 58k trays left to move by the end of week 24 – the next contractual hurdle. Nice and orderly. We are tidying up some packed hail lines to meet market spcifications.
Hayward Organic
Seeka packed : 854,003 trays Industry 3,140,706 trays [Seeka 27.2%]
Average reject rate: 25.29% Average size 35.25
In store: 399,135 trays
On order week 23 47,406 trays
On order week 24 12,631 trays
Hort16a
Seeka packed : 509,852 trays Industry 6,456,767trays [Seeka 7.5%]
Average reject rate: 17.39% Average size 32.85
In store: 235,695 trays
On order week 23 64,036 trays
On order week 24 4,148 trays
G3
Seeka packed : 1,111,810 trays Industry 10,732,064 trays [Seeka 10.4%]
Average reject rate: 15.38% Average size 31.93
In store: 511,618 trays
On order week 23 87,686 trays
On order week 24 52,000 trays
Orders remain slow.
G9
Seeka packed : 176,823 trays Industry 1,804,655 trays [Seeka 9.8%]
Average reject rate: 15.21% Average size 31.85
In store: 132,934 trays
On order week 23 18,148 trays
On order week 24 14,834 trays
Slow orders.
G14
Seeka packed : 116,410 trays Industry 936,622 trays [Seeka 12.4%]
Average reject rate 20.31% Average size 36.08
In store: 15,305 trays
On order week 23 517 trays
On order week 24 7,601 trays
Still in the home straight.
Some sad notices
Margaret Moses – I am saddened to advise of the passing of Margaret Moses on Tuesday. Margaret worked for Seeka at KKP as a Quality Controller and was feeling unwell. She went home and sadly passed away. Her husband Wayne works for us, and her close family, Brenda Gordon, Frances Moses and Yvonne Moses all work for Seeka and have been with us for a long time. My deepest condolences have been passed to the family on their sudden loss and our thoughts are with them at this time.
Cathy Smith - You may or may not be aware but Cathy Smith is desperately sick. She has been a fantastic friend, work colleague of Seeka and Eastpack and member of our community. She has given a lot to us all over the years. The people of Eastpack and Seeka have combined to create an appeal for Cathy to help relieve the financial pressure they are under and uncertainty they face. A specific bank account has been set up a courtesy of Westpac and Julene Rae of Seeka and Lindy Potter of Eastpack have agreed to be signatories to the Account. Jenny Lee of BDO has agreed to provide accounting review services. The money will be used to help Cathy and the family with any residual funds being for the benefit of her son Matt. We invite you to donate. Any donation will be appreciated.
In case you might know Cathy and want to support her then the account details are as follows:
Westpac Banking Corporation
Account Name: Potter Lyndell Margaret, Smith Catherine Ann, Rae Julene Ann
Account number: 03-0474-0737987-000
Rajwinder Puni and Harminder Bhaskar – similarly our thoughts are with the families of Rajwinder Puni who works as a Grader and Harminder Bhaskar who works as a Quality Controller at Main Road. Both had children and family caught up in the dreadful accident last Thursday in the Kaimai’s. Rajwinder lost her 8 year old daughter in the accident and her 12 year old son is in a critical condition at Starship Hospital. And Harminder‘s sister Rajbir and Harminder’s 5 year old son were seriously hurt in the accident likewise our thoughts are with her. We have offered our support to both families of this terrible accident.
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Thanks to everyone for your efforts – we are now on the push for home. Hopefully better next week.
Kind Regards
Michael
Seeka Key
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