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Company Secretary Appointment/Resignation

Company Secretary Appointment/Resignation

  • Jan 30, 2025
  • 1 page

Application for quotation of securities - ELD

Appendix 2A (Application for Quotation of Securities)

  • Jan 28, 2025
  • 6 pages

Update - Dividend/Distribution - ELD

Dividend Record Date, Dividend Pay Date, Dividend Rate, Dividend Reinvestment Plan

  • Jan 21, 2025
  • 5 pages

Change of Director's Interest Notice

Change of Director’s Interest Notice

  • Jan 20, 2025
  • 2 pages

Change of Director's Interest Notice - I Wilton

Change of Director’s Interest Notice

  • Jan 13, 2025
  • 3 pages

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December 2024

Elders chief executive Mark Allison was rehired in the top job in June 2023 after starting as CEO in 2014. The Elders board received a heavy protest vote for a second year running at the agm on December 19 for its botched handling of succession at the company.

Succession drama at Elders triggers huge protest vote again

A botched succession planning process where CEO Mark Allison was re-hired after the company signalled that he would be stepping down has enraged shareholders.

  • Simon Evans

November 2024

Doug Rathbone is a small shareholder and chairman of Delta Ag, which has been bought out by Elders Ltd in a $475m deal. He also owns luxury wine brands Yering Station, Mount Langi Ghiran and Xanadu.

Nufarm entrepreneur Doug Rathbone a winner in $475m Elders buyout

The 79-year-old, who made his fortune via the crop chemicals business, will pocket a small windfall from the buyout of Delta Agribusiness by its larger rival.

  • Simon Evans
Every few years, we get bankers picking over Australia’s rural services groups. This time it is Elders buying Delta Ag.

Monday’s big deal shows domestic M&A is definitely not dead

For all the bluster we hear from bankers and lawyers about the ACCC, companies are still willing to take on the competition regulator.

  • Anthony Macdonald
A tractor pulls a seeder and plow over a wheat field near Gunnedah, NSW. Elders is the largest seller of farming supplies in the country.

Elders supercharges agribusiness consolidation with $475m Delta buy

One of the country’s largest farm services groups is buying its private equity-backed rival in a deal expected to be scrutinised by the competition regulator.

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  • Simon Evans

August 2024

Elders is using robots to lift and stack wool bales at it new handling centre at Ravenhall in Melbourne.

Elders makes biggest wool investment in 20 years with robot handlers

Boss Mark Allison is rolling out the robots as the agribusiness makes a high-tech return to wool handling 185 years after its founders started out in the game.

  • Brad Thompson
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May 2024

Elders CEO Mark Allison has plenty to smile over.

Elders chair overrules shareholders

When 63.6 per cent of shareholders indicate they don’t want to grant a CEO some 180,000 free shares, most chairmen would listen. Not Ian Wilton.

  • Myriam Robin
Farmers sold off livestock in a rush on the BOM forecast of an El Nino event.

Elders plunges to worst result in 10 years on wayward BOM forecast

Farmers sold livestock and cut orders for farm chemicals based on the weather bureau’s prediction of an El Nino hot and dry period, which did not eventuate.

  • Simon Evans

April 2024

Elders has warned that first-half trading was “significantly below expectations” as farmer sentiment soured after an El Niño call. Instead, it was one of the wettest summers on record.

Bureau of Meteorology’s botched weather call crushes Elders’ earnings

Shares in the agribusiness major slumped some 24 per cent after it said it would miss forecasts. Farmers culled their herds ahead of a heatwave that never came.

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  • Elouise Fowler

December 2023

Greenhill Energy managing director Nicholas Mumford

Ex-Santos exec fires up $425m waste-to-hydrogen plan

Greenhill Energy is preparing to raise capital for a multistage plant to turn waste into fertiliser, hydrogen and synthetic fuels.

  • Simon Evans
Elders chief executive Mark Allison was rehired in the top job in June.

Agribusiness group Elders lashed over botched CEO succession

Elders had a big 63 per cent protest vote against its pay practices, after Mark Allison stayed on as CEO with higher pay seven months after signalling an exit.

  • Simon Evans

November 2023

Elders CEO Mark Allison says the agribusiness group runs a resilient business.

Elders shares jump as CEO says it is no ‘one-trick pony’

The agribusiness group was still able to deliver its second-highest profit in 10 years despite slowing fertiliser sales and interest rate rises.

  • Simon Evans

August 2023

Costa Groups says it expects an earnings hit from a lower quality citrus crop.

Costa profit warning casts doubt over takeover deal

Shares in Australia’s biggest horticultural company plunged almost 12 per cent in early trading after it released unaudited financial results.

  • Brad Thompson
While investing in agriculture can offer diversification and potential rewards, it is essential for investors to understand the risks.

How to invest in agriculture without buying a farm

The portfolio thesis for investing in agriculture is compelling – this is how to gain exposure.

  • James Wright

July 2023

FarmGate’s Chanel Gallen, with (from left) Fame’s Peter Kennedy, FarmGate’s Richard Norton and Fame’s Peter Godbolt.

Digital currency used in landmark cattle sale for rural economy

FarmGate and Fame Capital have used the eAUD to auction 18 Angus-cross cows for $18,900 in a deal set to turn heads at livestock agents like Elders and Nutrien.

  • James Eyers

June 2023

Jeanne Johns is departing as chief executive of Incitec Pivot.

Incitec boss pushed out amid Northern Territory gas shock

The company’s plan to split in two looks shaky after the exit of chief executive Jeanne Johns, a gas supply shock and as investors focus on board renewal.

  • Simon Evans and Peter Ker
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In a surprise move, Mark Allison will stay on as CEO of Elders.

Elders U-turn as CEO stays on with pay rise, free shares

Chairman Ian Wilton says “what happens in the boardroom stays in the boardroom”, as Mark Allison wins a 27 per cent pay bump to remain CEO.

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  • Simon Evans

May 2023

Bubs Australia boardroom ructions have taken another turn.

Bubs investors seek to install Peter Nathan as CEO in board spill

The push to remove the company’s current directors is being led by departed chief executive Kristy Carr and executive chairman Dennis Lin.

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  • Carrie LaFrenz
Demand for new varieties of canola seeds is rising fast and helping to underpin a powerful growth engine for Nufarm.

Sowing the seeds of rising dividends at Nufarm

Canola, sorghum and sunflower seeds are in huge demand around the world and ASX-listed Nufarm is making big money from it.

  • Simon Evans
Elders chief executive Mark Allison says the sentiment towards agricultural stocks has turned negative.

$940m of pain in six months as Elders profit slides

Departing CEO Mark Allison says his mantra of making good money even in bad seasons still applies in the cyclical agribusiness industry.

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  • Simon Evans

March 2023

Agribusiness Australia president Mark Allison.

Agribusiness boss says farmers making hay on ESG

Departing Elders boss Mark Allison says agribusinesses can now boost productivity and profitability while making food and fibre production more sustainable.

  • Brad Thompson

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