About Us

Formed in 1973, Amalgamated Marketing Ltd is part of the Amalgamated Dairies Group which has been trading in New Zealand’s primary products for nearly 80 years.

In 1983, Amalgamated together with Talley's Fisheries Ltd of Motueka formed Amaltal Fishing Co Ltd as a 50/50 partnership. Amaltal grew to be New Zealand's third largest fishing company with a fleet of fillet trawlers and fresh fishers. Amalgamated sold their 50 percent share to Talleys as of February 2005 to give Talleys full ownership of the company.

Amalgamated's marketing team continue to source fish from a large number of other fish producers ensuring that a diverse range of fish and fish products are available to the market from the clear, unpolluted waters of New Zealand.

Notable successes have been:
1920/50’s Selling 60% of New Zealand dairy products to Britain.
1934 First shipment of dairy product to Japan.
1953 First sale of New Zealand lamb to West Indies.
1955 First sale of New Zealand lamb to Canada.
1958 First sale of New Zealand beef to USA.
1965 First import of potash to New Zealand from the Soviet Union (USSR).
1969 First sale of New Zealand meat (beef and mutton) to the Soviet Union (USSR).
1970’s Sold large quantities of mutton to Russia, sometimes in excess of 100,000 tonnes per year.
1975 Opened office in Bahrain to open up the sale of NZ primary produce to the Middle East.
1978 Commenced imports of ‘Lada’ cars from Russia.
1979 Entered the New Zealand Fishing Industry with chartered trawlers from the Soviet Union.
1980/90’s Continues to charter Russian trawlers in order to market fish to its customers around the world.
1983 Formed Amaltal Fishing Company, a 50/50 partnership between Amalgamated Marketing Ltd and Talleys Fisheries Ltd of Motueka.

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