Sustainability Report 2022
Costa Group Holdings Limited, Australia’s leading grower, packer and marketer of fresh fruit and vegetables, has released its 2022 Sustainability Report. Our Report provides key data on our actions across our 10 Sustainable Commercial Farming principles and includes metrics relating to water use and water efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption and production. For […]
Costa supports Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation
Costa has teamed up with Coles for the third year in a row to support the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Foundation. To launch the program, Costa hosted Sunrise weather presenter Sam Mac, Coles Ambassador Courtney Roulston and Natasha Grogan from the Foundation at our Tomato glasshouses in Guyra on February 1. We also had a wonderful […]
Community grants on offer for Guyra and Armidale
Costa Tomato Exchange has initiated a Well Grown Community Grants Program to provide support for community organisations within the Guyra and Armidale regions. We are inviting not-for-profit community organisations, sporting associations and schools to register their interest for support through our 2023 Grants Program. Organisations seeking funding for 2023 will need to complete our Expression […]
Love of learning drives success
Cathy Chambers’ love of learning and willingness to take on new opportunities have helped drive her career success. Cathy is the first female general manager to be appointed within the Costa operations. The Costa China farms grow blueberries, raspberries and blackberries in the Yunnan Province in southern China, and employ more than 200 permanent local […]
Statement – Cyber attack
Costa has been subjected to a malicious and sophisticated IT phishing attack. The attack occurred on 21st August 2022 and an intensive recovery and detailed review in conjunction with external IT security consultants of the incident commenced from this date. As a result of this we have now established that access to data was confined […]
Tree planting in memory of Frank Costa AO
A project to commemorate Frank Costa AO and contribute to biodiversity across Costa farms has started, with trees planted at our farms in the Sunraysia region. The project grew out of Costa’s inaugural Sustainability Prize and the Well Grown Seed Fund, which encourages people across the business to submit their ideas for sustainability projects. Chris […]
Costa calls for urgent action from Albanese government on avocado exports
Costa Group, Australia’s leading grower, marketing and producer of fresh fruit and vegetables, has issued an urgent plea for the Albanese Government to prioritise export market access for horticultural products into key markets. Sean Hallahan, Costa CEO and Managing Director, said lack of access to key markets, especially Japan for Australia’s avocados was affecting the […]
Celebrating 50 years of Vitor
From its roots in the Riverland region of Australia, the Vitor brand is known around the globe for its quality premium fresh produce. Vitor originated 50 years ago as a marketing company for growers in the Renmark region, in South Australia. Today, Vitor is one of Costa Group’s premium brands, with exports of citrus and […]
World first robotic pollination
In a world first, Costa is working with Israeli company Arugga AI Farming to deploy robotic pollination for truss tomato plants at its tomato glasshouse operation in Guyra, NSW. Pollination in glasshouses around the world is generally done using bumblebees, however their use is banned in Australia. That means the pollination process is done by hand. […]
New blueberry variety a ‘Delight’
Costa operates a globally recognised Variety Improvement Program, developing new blueberry varieties which are licensed in regions including the Americas, Morocco, China, and South Africa. Headquartered at Corindi on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, the program uses Costa’s extensive network of farms in mid latitude, low latitude, and low chill to […]