AAL is a large scale independent operator of orchard management, growing, harvesting and packing.
We supply a full range of services and equipment as well as a reliable team with exceptional customer service.
At AAL we:
- Guarantee our permanent machine operators are fully trained and compliant with health and safety requirements.
- Work with our customers to help their orchards succeed.
- Are determined to deliver on our commitments – we do what we promise.
- Promise to deliver high quality work, reliable staff and exceptional customer service.
- Provide our customers with intelligent solutions to release their orchards potential. We bring them the best people and technologies to deliver great results.
- Work with our customers in an open and collaborative way. We react flexibly to their changing needs.
- Understand the market in which our customers business operates.
- Work with a planned approach.
The Team:
Tony Bradley
Managing Director
Ben Gallogly
Operations Manager
Alana Reyland
Administration
Core Functions:
- Lease and manage orchards, and assist growers in producing Avocados for domestic and export markets.
- Provide contract pruning, injecting and harvesting services.
- Provide seasonal avocado packhouse services for domestic market fruit.
Our Values:
- Quality in everything we do
- Local – we operate in and support our local community
- People focused – we enjoy having happy staff and growers
- Consistency in our service provision
- Communication – open and honest
- Transparency
Our Objectives:
Ochard Management and Grower Assistance
- We aim to grow healthy crop bearing trees which consistently produce the best yield per hectare. Having good size fruit and even better quality.
- We aim to have all orchards producing the best they possibly can to provide the greatest return to the grower for fruit sold.
- We offer growers a tried and true management programme which improves and maintains the health of the orchard, and assists orchards to become resilient against deficiencies and diseases that challenge avocado trees.
We specialise in improving orchards that are struggling and making good orchards even better!
Contract Harvesting Objectives
To provide a timely and excellent standard of service to grow and harvest avocados by:
- Having a reliable fleet of hydraladas, trucks, and necessary machinery.
- Having fully trained operators that meet health and safety requirements.
- Having processes in place to meet required Food Safety and Global GAP Compliance.
We maintain close relationships with our NZ marketing partners who help us to read and understand the fluctuating market returns. We enjoy outstanding export returns and concessions through our export partners who ship to several international destinations.
Seasonal Packhouse Objectives
To provide a timely and excellent standard of service to process and pack avocados for the domestic market by:
- Distributing fruit through NZ marketers who use the NZ supermarket supply chain as their primary point of sale.
- Understanding the market in which our grower’s businesses operate to supply fruit to domestic market for best possible returns.