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Balle Bros Group Ltd

Potato wedges
Company Description
Balle Bros Group Ltd is one of New Zealand’s foremost integrated agricultural businesses.

This family business specializes on vegetable crop production, mainly with onions, carrots, potatoes, and brassicas, and markets them locally and globally via its export network.

As of August 2013, Balle Bros also owns the Mr. Chips french fry operations.
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Samantha Baldwin headed up the team delivering Crop 78, the higher quality frying potato becoming popular with processors
October 07, 2025
New Zealand Plant and Food Research Introduces Crop 78 Potato Variety for Superior French Fry Quality
French fries are part of a booming USD 18 billion sector, projected to reach USD 24 billion by decade’s end. Plant & Food Research, part of the Bioeconomy Science Institute, has been recognised for creating a new potato variety tailored to this market.
New Zealand Potato Production 2014
September 14, 2014
New Zealand Potato Production 2014
New Zealand Potato production in 2013, at 525,000 metric tons, was marginally (5%) ahead of 2012 production. t is likely planted areas in 2014 will be similar to 2013, with production in the range of 500,000 to 550,000MT.
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New Zealand supplier buys Mr Chips
August 27, 2013
New Zealand supplier buys Mr Chips
More details have come out in the sale of Mr Chips by Simplot to New Zealand's Balle Bros, first reported by PotatoPro on August 18.
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Simplot for news
August 18, 2013
Simplot Australia sells stake in NZ potato processor Mr Chips
Simplot Australia has announced that it entered into a conditional agreement to sell its shareholding in its New Zealand-based potato manufacturing and distribution business, Simplot Mr Chips Limited, to the Auckland based Balle Bros Group Limited.
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