Mark Irwin became\u00a0the new CEO of Consolidated Pastoral Company on 1st August, replacing\u00a0 long-term CPC CEO Ken Warriner.\u00a0 However Ken will stay on as CPC Chairman, and still presumably owns a 10% stake in the company.<\/p>\n
Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC) is Australia’s second largest beef producing company, after the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo).\u00a0 In\u00a01983\u00a0Kerry Packer purchased\u00a0Ashburton Pastoral Company and with the acquisition of other cattle stations, Ashburton Pastoral morphed into CPC in 1992.\u00a0 UK-based investment companyTerra Firma bought CPC from the\u00a0Packer family in April 2009,\u00a0 several years after the death of Kerry Packer\u00a0(December 2005).<\/p>\n
Ashburton Pastoral Company was jointly owned by Ken Warriner and the late Peter Baillieu and Tony Chisholm.\u00a0 Ashburton\u00a0Pastoral Company owned three NT cattle stations – Newcastle Waters station (Elliott), Humbert River (Victoria River District) and Henbury (now RMWAH owned, near Alice Springs).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Prior to that, Ken Warriner had worked\u00a0for Hugh McLachlan on \u00a0Kenmore Park (Alice Springs), for\u00a0Tom Quilty on Springvale (East Kimberley, WA)\u00a0and then as General Manager for Texas-based King Ranch, owner of Brunette Downs (NT), Mt House\u00a0and Glenroy (West Kimberley, WA).<\/p>\n
What Ken Warriner doesn’t know about cattle and the northern cattle industry, isn’t worth knowing.\u00a0 And he has always been a busy bloke.\u00a0 Roles have included Chairman of Consolidated Meat Group, GRM International (resource management), Chairman of Austrex (Australian Rural Exports Pty Ltd), Chairman of RTA (Road Trains of Australia) and Chairman of AFD (Australian Fuel Distributors).\u00a0 Plus President of the NTCA (Northern Territory Cattleman’s Association) and the ACA (Asian Cattleman’s Association), as well as serving on the NFF (National Farmers Federation) National Executive.\u00a0 Last year an old health issue resurfaced that took some beating off, however it appears Ken has only taken the foot off the pedal slightly.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mark Irwin comes from a Darling Downs farming family and is a qualified lawyer with a background in business management, and has previously worked for Graincorp,\u00a0BHP and Asciano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mark Irwin became\u00a0the new CEO of Consolidated Pastoral Company on 1st August, replacing\u00a0 long-term CPC CEO Ken Warriner.\u00a0 However Ken will stay on as CPC Chairman, and still presumably owns a 10% stake in the company. Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC) is Australia’s second largest beef producing company, after the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo).\u00a0 In\u00a01983\u00a0Kerry Packer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,10,165],"tags":[100,158,161,166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}