Delta successful in exporting

Press, 15 June 1979, Page 6

Delta successful in exporting

Delta Plastics, Ltd, Palmerston North plastic animal ear-tag manufacturer, aiming for sales of about $3.4M for the last financial year, exceeded the target by 40 per cent.

Sales rose to more than S4M. Of that, $750,000 came in March, the last month of the financial year, and $673,000 of that was from exports.

Exports now make up about 89 per cent of all eartag sales by the company. In 1975, Delta’s export income was $360,000. It more than trebled to SI.IM in the following year, and is now almost four times that figure.

The largest proportion of the 220 tons of ear-tags exported last year went to the United States, and were freighted through Palmerston North airport. Delta began manufacturplastic ear-tags in 1965, and sent its first export order to Australia in 1967.

The biggest break for the company came when the decision was made to establish a marketing subsidiary in the United States in 1976. Exports to that country continue to grow year by year and there appears to be no end in sight. A major development for Delta Plastics last year was the establishment of a jointly owned manufacturing company in France. Production in France last year was between three and four million tags.