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NAB holding $55m debt in struggling dairy firm Beston

NAB holding $55m debt in struggling dairy firm Beston

Beston Global Food Company’s debt has blown out to almost $70m, with the dairy company, which has never turned a profit, owing NAB alone more than $55m.

The South Australian dairy and meat producer – which is currently in talks to sell its loss-making meat division – said in its quarterly released late Tuesday that it had experienced the highest milk flows on record this financial year.

This poses a problem for the company, which has to pay its contracted farmers…

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