Major Investors in Regional Victoria ...
|
| | | | MasterFoods Australia New Zealand produce global brands like Mars, Snickers, M&Ms and high-quality pet food. They have three Victoria factories located in Ballarat, Albury/Wodonga and Melbourne.
|
| Australian company Pacific Hydro is scheduled to complete its A$330m Portland Wind Project by 2008. The wind farm is one of the largest developments in the Southern Hemisphere.
|
| IBM's Regional Software Solutions Centre is located in Ballarat, Victoria, employing around 400 staff.
|
| Kraft Foods Australia is a leader in the packaged food industry, producing food for the local and overseas markets. In the last decade Kraft has invested over A$350m in new technology and plants.
|
|
|
|
Major Investors in Melbourne ...
|
| | | | | Based in Melbourne, CSL is one of Australia's largest listed pharmaceutical companies. In a World-first CSL has recently released Gardasil, a vaccine that prevents the human papillomavirus, the main cause of cervical cancer. |
| | GE Consumer Finance Australasia is headquartered in Melbourne. This facility covers data processing and IT support for all GE Money's credit card and financial operations in Asia, Latin America and Europe. |
| Computershare is the world's only global share registry company and now manages in excess of 90 million shareholder accounts for over 14,000 corporations across 12 countries. The global operations are headquartered in Melbourne, employing around 12,000 staff.
|
| Satyam, an Indian computer services company, has set up its largest global development outside of India, in Melbourne.
|
|  | | | | | | | | NEC chose Melbourne for its next generation broadband research and development centre: a A$70 million investment, creating 300 new jobs. This investment represents NEC's largest R&D centre outside of Japan.
|
| CA (Computer Associates) is one of the world’s largest enterprise management software companies. It has two security R&D labs in located in Melbourne.
|
| Exinda Networks supplies network management and monitoring systems around the world. Headquartered in Melbourne, 70% of the company's revenues come from outside Australia.
|
| | Singapore-based Tiger Airways, a low-cost airline, has established its headquarters in Melbourne creating over 1,000 jobs. |
| | | | | | | | | Toyota Motor Corporation Australia is one of Toyota Japan's global manufacturing centres and is headquartered in Melbourne. Toyota Australia exports more than 60% of its production to the Middle East, South Africa and New Zealand.
|
| | GM Holden is one of the largest automotive manufacturers in Australia with vehicle design, engineering and testing facilities based in Port Melbourne. |
| Automotive components manufacturer Siemens VDO Automotive employs around 350 staff to engineer and manufacture sophisticated automotive products for vehicle manufactures in Australia and customers overseas, including BMW in Germany.
|
| Aldi, the European supermarket chain, has established a distribution centre and several retail outlets across Melbourne, investing A$108 million in the project.
|
| | | | | | | | | Hyatt International’s reservations and shared services centre in Melbourne oversees its nine Pacific region hotels.
|
| | | |
|
