Private Bag 6012, Napier 4020

Ravensdown Fertiliser Co-operative Limited was established after a series of takeovers during 1977/78 by the amalgamation of the five fertiliser works formerly owned by Kempthorne Prosser & Co Ltd and Dominion Fertiliser Company.  Sixty per cent of its shares were held by Ravensdown Corporation Ltd, a farmer-owned co-operative whose members were farmers in the regions supplied by our three works. In 1987 Ravensdown merged with East Coast Fertiliser Co., a co-operative that owned and operated a single fertiliser works at Napier.  In July 1997 the New Plymouth operation of Farmers Fertiliser was purchased by Ravensdown.