Pure Dairy welcomes Wellington as CCO
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Pure Dairy has appointed Andrew Wellington as chief commercial officer. With over 20 years’ experience in the dairy and food-processing industries, he brings expertise in operational leadership, market expansion and supply chain optimisation, the Australian dairy says.
Serving partners in 72 countries with end-to-end custom solutions, Pure Dairy will be pouring its intellectual capital into its production facility as of 2025. Pure Dairy’s new, A$100 million Victorian plant will provide Australian businesses with a competitive edge in the rapidly changing international market, the firm says.
Adrian Josephson, executive chairman of Pure Dairy, said: “Andrew has the breadth of experience and insights to consolidate the work of our multidisciplinary teams. Through our international offices and network of partners, we have real-time data on everything, and this requires a leader who can immediately see the big picture. It’s key to being able to pivot – and we’re dealing with a very dynamic international market. For example, EU exports are currently hampered by the Red Sea shipping crisis and US-China tariff hikes are on the horizon. There are some major opportunities coming up for quality Australian dairy, and I can’t wait to see where Andrew takes Pure Dairy.”
Wellington has been immersed in the dairy industry ever since his early childhood. Having grown up on a dairy farm in northern Victoria, he started his career driving milk tankers and then completed a cadetship with Murray Goulburn and studied food technology at Melbourne University.
Over the following years, he has held positions across the dairy sector in both Australia and New Zealand. At Open Country Cheese, he served as general manager of operations before it rebranded as Open Country Dairy and assumed the role of group projects manager, heading national plant integration and capital projects. At Thermaflo NZ, he served as technical director, specialising in plant design. Most recently, he was chief operating officer at Union Dairy Company.
The new facility, located in Dandenong South (Melbourne, Australia), will feature state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment, an R&D kitchen, logistics operations and the company’s corporate offices.
