Fruit and vegetable wholesale businesses

Shifting to Epping had been done for these fruit and vegetable traders. Now they are trying to make some teething issues and that 10 years of bad luck settle there after their shifting to Melbourne Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable and flower Market.

This market was finally opened on 31st August and this date was finalized after almost one month of postponement.

Political run-In

This shift basically followed a political dispute between market traders including growers and wholesalers, the Melbourne Market Authority and Victorian Government which lasts for more than 10 years. Additionally, this shifting cost about $300 million to $670 million.

Businesses in the market

This market included about 3000 small businesses, 600 growers, traders, transport, rational companies and about 1800 fruit and vegetable wholesale.

Main reason behind all the clashes is that the Melbourne and Sydney fruit and vegetable wholesale markets are one of the biggest markets in Australia along with the biggest Flower whole sale market.

Transport

The authorities stated that there were still some problems with the shifting due to some transport issues as indicated by anecdotal feedback. Buyers and sellers were still working and investigating about possible smooth businesses.

AUSVEG Victoria state manager Kurt Hermann stated that location of market was still a fiddling issue for some of the growers due to curfews on heavy vehicles through north-eastern Melbourne suburbs of Watsonia and Hiedelberg which were causing difficulties.

Finance

Most of the traders had the problem with the uncertainty caused by the shifting for past 10 years. Grant Nichol, wholesale business manager of hydroponic tomato grower and wholesaler Flavorite, stated that there were specifically some factors unknown to the traders concerning relocation of the market. When Flavorite who had more than 380 employees was ready for the shifting, the problem with small traders was not understandable. May be for them the major struggle was with finance. Transport and financial issues were subject of discussion and they could not be ignored, obviously. But Epping works quite well as a location” Mr. Nichol said.

Possessive claims

Relocation of the market was a tender point for labors and Victorian government since it was first announced by Labor premier Steve Bracks in 2005. In 2011 some wholesaler representatives called the Epping relocation as “White Elephant”. They were not happy with that.

Clenching change

Mr. Schnitzler claimed that it was a big and grasping change when market was shifted from an old market covering the area of 35 hectares to a glamorous new one covering the area of 60 hectares with about 120,000 square meters of storage house. Isn’t it amazing?