The Rise of the Rural Entrepreneur
Jim Riordan
RIORDAN GROUP PTY LTD T/A
RIORDAN GRAINS SERVICES
1996 TO 2016
CONTENTS OF TALK
 Personal Background
 How did RGS Establish?
 How have RGS grown the business?
 Today at RGS
 Future training needs for RGS
• 1987Finish Boarding School in Hamilton
Victoria
• 3 Years Woolclassing and Jackarooing
• 1991/93 - Jim finished Marcus Oldham Ag
College
• 1994-96 - Est a free range piggery at
Murdeduke West of Geelong
• Feed Grain industry understanding and contacts
• 1996 (October) - Winchelsea West of Geelong
1 truck from home
• 1997 - Lara management for fertiliser in the
shed 5000t
• Distribution of fertiliser to Wagga NSW and
central NSW
• Started carting grain back from these regions
and marketing it to contacts
• 1998 - Lara Silos came up for sale - purchased
• 1999 - IMCA approached us to store 2500t of
malt barley at Lara
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• Supply a plan to purchase more grain in a
geographical spread for IMCA
BY 2004 Storing 50,000t for IMCA in 18 locations
This opened up opportunity for other grains and
other business
More customers has lead to more freight, more
storage and a larger business
• IN 2016
130 Employees from truck driver,loader drivers to
accountants and managers.
2016 MAIN
CUSTOMERS
for grain sales
MALT HOUSES
100,000
DOMESTIC MARKET (inc to Exporter)
280,000
CONTAINER MARKET (DCT)
100,000
(Barley/Wheat/Canola/Faba beans/Cottonseed)
SUPPLIERS OF GRAIN
2015
Riordan Group Pty Ltd
• GRAIN SERVICES (Grower, Customers)
3,500 farmers
• ADMIN DIVISION
• They produce weekly reports for all divisions and
monthly board reports with Managers.
LARA SITE (10KM FROM GEELONG)
• STORAGE DIVISION
• 250,000T Owned, Leased & JV’s
• 35,000sq metres of shed floor space for import
products of meals and fertilisers
• Container Packing 100,000t per year over 2 sites
Lara, Balliang
TRANSPORT DIVISION
24/7 operation
Grain, Fertiliser, Lime, Gypsum, 600,000t
Ship to Shore work – 600,000t per year
35 Truck fleet
PLUS up to 70 sub contractors
OVER 3 Million kilometres travelled per year.
FUTURE DIRECTION
SOLD LARA GRAIN SITE TO RIDLEY FOR NEW
FEEDMILL UP TO 500K CAPACITY
BUILDING and in Geelong sheds with 120,000t of
bulk capacity, more imports with long term leases
and handling agreements
Develop a new transport depot for growth of new mill
RIORDAN GROUP EMPLOYMENT/TRAINING
PLAN
• We need more highly trained and skilled
employees required to undertake
specialised tasks
• We will provide the old style training ground
with Cadetships/traineeships going forward
with 3 per year training programs.
• Start at the ground and come through
system.
QUESTIONS PLEASE