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Golden North starts ice cream production at its new Murray Bridge factory
Golden North has started making ice cream at its new factory in Murray Bridge, South Australia.
The company bought the former Beston Global Food Company plant after it was liquidated in 2025.
The move shifts production from Laura, where Golden North had been based for 103 years.
The new site is closer to a major milk-producing region and can freeze ice cream faster.
Golden North expects to hire about 20 more people, bringing its workforce to around 100.
It will buy milk from another company in its first year while it assesses its needs before making direct contracts with farmers.
The larger factory is also intended to support more production and a move into cheese.
Golden North has begun making ice cream at its new processing plant in Murray Bridge, South Australia.
The company bought the former Beston Global Food Company plant after it was liquidated in 2025.
The new site is expected to need about 20 more workers than the Laura plant, bringing Golden North's total workforce to about 100.
Golden North plans to make cheese at the site and use its increased capacity to expand production.
- Who
- Golden North, a South Australian ice cream company.
- What
- It has started producing ice cream at its new processing plant.
- When
- The production start was reported on October 20, 2026.
- Where
- Murray Bridge, South Australia.
- Why
- The move brings the company closer to a central milk-producing region and gives it more capacity to expand production.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Golden North bought the former Beston Global Food Company plant after administrators failed to find a buyer when the company was liquidated.
Golden North's new Murray Bridge plant was reported to have begun producing ice cream.
- New site
- Murray Bridge, South Australia
- Former site
- Laura, where Golden North had been based for 103 years
- Additional workers
- About 20 more than at the Laura plant
- Overall employment
- About 100 people
- Milk supply
- Golden North will source milk from another company for the first year
What people are saying
Ice cream is the most important thing; that's what's going to pay the bills in the beginning of this story of Golden North here in Murray Bridge.
There are opportunities everywhere … we just could never take advantage of them before. Murray Bridge allows us to do it.
The recipes stay with the factory. They don't usually get sold off to someone else.