Western Australian Meat Marketing Co-operative
Brands: Fine Brand, Southern Meats
Record as at 2 June 2026
Western Australian Meat Marketing Co-operative Limited, trading as WAMMCO International, is a producer-owned co-operative with origins in the Western Australian Lamb Marketing Board established by the WA Government in 1971. Incorporated as a co-operative in 1999, it is owned by more than 800 farmer-members across Western Australia. It operates two slaughterhouses: Katanning in Western Australia's Great Southern region, and Goulburn in New South Wales, the latter acquired from Southern Meats Pty Ltd in June 2012. Revenue was approximately A$500 million in 2025.
Animals: WAMMCO slaughters sheep and lambs across its two facilities, killing up to 50,000 animals per week combined.
Operations: WAMMCO sources, slaughters and exports lamb and mutton to international markets including supermarkets and restaurants globally. By-products from slaughter are processed for animal feed and biofuel. Product is marketed under the WAMMCO International and Fine Brand labels.
Workforce: In December 2022 a foreign worker at the Katanning abattoir was killed after being drawn into the unguarded opening of a machine known as a cake press while carrying out a daily shutdown procedure, suffering fatal crush injuries. WAMMCO pleaded guilty in the Albany Magistrates Court in August 2025 to failing to provide and maintain a safe work environment and causing the death of the worker. WAMMCO was fined $785,000 and ordered to pay more than $5,700 in costs. WorkSafe WA subsequently inspected 19 abattoirs across Western Australia and issued compliance notices at multiple facilities for inadequate machine guarding and other safety failures.
Sources: ABN Lookup (abr.business.gov.au); WAMMCO website (wammco.com.au/about-us), accessed 2 June 2026; WorkSafe WA media release (28 August 2025); Farm Weekly (August 2025); IBISWorld company profile; Goulburn Post (November 2012).
ABN Lookup
| ABN | 54 048 449 698 (open lookup) |
| Entity name |
WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MEAT MARKETING CO-OPERATIVE LIMITED (from 01 April 2020) WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MEAT MARKETING CO-OPERATIVE from 05 November 2015 to 01 April 2020 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MEAT MARKETING CO-OPERATIVE LIMITED from 16 February 2000 to 05 November 2015 |
| ABN status | Active from 16 February 2000 |
| Entity type | Co-operative |
| Goods & Services Tax (GST) | Registered from 01 July 2000 |
| Main business location |
WA 6004 from 05 November 2015 WA 6100 from 22 September 2014 to 05 November 2015 WA 6100 from 14 January 2014 to 22 September 2014 WA 6100 from 05 June 2004 to 14 January 2014 WA 6100 from 27 September 2001 to 05 June 2004 |
| ABN last updated | 04 April 2020 |
| Extracted from ABR | 16 June 2026 |
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Holiday workers propping up key sectors exposed to serious workplace injuries - ABC News
Wednesday 6 May 2026 by
Read the story in Bahasa Indonesia Jaya Daud Munthe had only just returned to work in a NSW abattoir after fracturing his hand when he had another accident that left him with a broken leg. A heavy box of lamb meat fell on the Indonesian working holiday visa holder as he was shifting a storage unit. "I wanted to run, but it was too late," he said. "I tried holding it [the box] with my hands ... my left leg got twisted and I could hear the sound of it breaking." Jaya Daud Munthe was injured twice at a job he... Read more >
