The opportunity exists for wholesale investors to express an interest to invest in Appleby Farms. Founders Julian Raine and Murray King are both passionate dairy farmers who care intensely for their farms and animals and have been good mates for a long time. They had been searching for a way to value add their milk and get a decent return without having to rely on the vagaries of commodities markets. So with co-founder and food technologist Kristy Giles, their solution was to go into the ice cream business. From cow to cone, Appleby Farms takes the whole process and turns it into a labour of love. Appleby Farms owns the paddocks, grows the grass, nurtures the cows and churns the milk into the best premium ice cream.

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Appleby Farms is unique among ice cream companies with its farmer and A2 milk protein value propositions:

• All ice cream is made with milk from their own A2 cows
• The strategy is to build a long-term sustainable business of which current and future generations can be proud
• It is a Top-of-the-South business with a strong provenance story
• It is past the pre-revenue / early stage – a lower risk proposition with a business already underway
• It has a strong management team with deep export experience
• They wish to be good corporate citizens for the community and the environment
• Strong values alignment among their investors is important to them
• In the long term they expect to generate strong cashflow with an EBITDA of 20+% from which dividends are expected to be paid annually

The A2 Value proposition

Depending on a cow’s genetics, they’ll produce milk that contains either the A1 or A2 proteins, or a combination of both. Most of the milk you see in the supermarkets today consists of a mix of A1 and A2 proteins. For people who have trouble drinking regular cow’s milk, it might be because of the A1 protein. So choosing products made with only A2 protein milk could make all the difference.

Appleby Farms has grown strongly in New Zealand, with presence in over 130 outlets and it is the no.1 selling ice cream brand in Farro Fresh stores. The company has appointed an agent in Australia, who now have distribution to over 170 stores, and they are targeting five South East Asian countries for export.

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