# SunRice

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**SunRice** is one of the largest rice food companies in the world and one of Australia's leading branded food exporters.[1]

The SunRice Group comprises multiple businesses, assets and operations across Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, the United States, the Pacific Islands and Asia.[1] It has around 35 major brands in approximately 50 global markets and employs over 2,000 people.[1]

Australian [rice](/source/Rice) production is based in regional southern [New South Wales](/source/New_South_Wales). The company's head office is located in [Leeton](/source/Leeton,_New_South_Wales) (with a corporate office also in [Sydney](/source/Sydney)), and it has rice mills in Leeton, [Deniliquin](/source/Deniliquin), and [Coleambally](/source/Coleambally). SunRice also operates stockfeed plants in Leeton, [Tongala](/source/Tongala) and [Cobden](/source/Cobden,_Victoria).[2]

In 2020, its CopRice business converted the Coleambally Mill into a ruminant feed mill, the largest of its kind in Australia.[3]

Today, the SunRice Group has operations across Australia, the United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Japan, Jordan, Vietnam and Papua New Guinea.[4]

## Products

SunRice manufactures more than 700 products - from table rice and rice flour, snacks and rice meals, to companion animal and livestock products.

Around 80% of the Australian crop is exported as branded product in an average year to key markets including [Asia](/source/Asia), the Pacific and the [Middle East](/source/Middle_East).[2]

During the 2017 financial year, the Company experienced significant market share growth in the domestic Australian snack foods sector due to increasing sales of microwave rice meals.[5]

To complement its Australian operations to ensure reliability of supply in low crop years, while enabling [Riverina](/source/Riverina) growers to focus on premium varieties that provide higher farm-gate returns, SunRice is establishing sustainable and secure global sourcing and supply chains. In 2016/17, SunRice sourced 320,000 paddy tonnes from [Vietnam](/source/Vietnam) and has opened a representative office in the country.[5]

## Business units and brands

### CopRice

CopRice has been supplying animal feed for over 30 years through its plants in [Leeton](/source/Leeton,_New_South_Wales), [Tongala](/source/Tongala) and [Cobden](/source/Cobden,_Victoria). The CopRice business was originally established in response to the availability of rice by-products, such as rice pollard: a feed which is high in energy and protein. Rice now represents only one of the many ingredients used by CopRice. CopRice also operates a pet food business.

### Riviana Foods

Riviana Foods is a gourmet food distribution, sales and marketing company owned by SunRice. It has the largest share of olives and pickled vegetables in the retail channel in Australia.[citation needed] In its grocery business, important brands include Always Fresh, Felhbergs, Admiral, Captain, Riviana and Mahatma. Riviana Foods also has a strong presence in the food service sector and an extensive portfolio of brands including Riviana, Menu Master, Garden Supreme and Ocean Supreme.

### Trukai Industries

Trukai is a rice product packaging, distribution, sales and marketing company that is two-thirds owned by SunRice, with the remaining interest held by the people of Papua New Guinea through the Pacific Balanced Fund.

Registered in 1970 by SunRice, Trukai has a number of well-established brands including Trukai and Roots Rice. Trukai's head office and processing base is located in [Lae](/source/Lae), with a marketing office in [Port Moresby](/source/Port_Moresby) and distribution facilities located throughout [Papua New Guinea](/source/Papua_New_Guinea). Trukai employs over 1,000 people throughout the country.

### SolRice

Solrice, located in the Solomon Islands, is a distribution, sales and marketing company wholly owned by SunRice.

### SunFoods

SunFoods is a rice milling, distribution and marketing company that was established in 2008 and now owned by SunRice. SunFoods is the owner of the Hinode brand, which was created by the [California](/source/California) based Rice Growers Association in the 1930s. The Hinode brand is very strong in medium-grain rice markets throughout the US, and is stocked in retail outlets including [Walmart](/source/Walmart), WinCo Foods Stores and Kruger. SunFoods’ head office and milling base is located in [Woodland, California](/source/Woodland,_California).

### AGS

SunRice's wholly owned subsidiary AGS owns and operates Riverina-based grain storage infrastructure with capacity exceeding one million tonnes.

### RRAPL

Rice Research Australia Pty Ltd (RRAPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of SunRice, undertakes rice varietal and agronomic research and development in partnership with the [NSW Department of Primary Industries](/source/Department_of_Primary_Industries_(New_South_Wales)) and the [Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation](/source/AgriFutures_Australia). RRAPL operates a leased farm in the [Riverina](/source/Riverina) for its activities.[6]

## References

1. SunRice Group (22 June 2023). [*Annual Report 2023*](https://web.archive.org/web/20231018001833/https://investors.sunrice.com.au/FormBuilder/_Resource/_module/2weQNICYSUy13FE_jxQXvg/file/financial-reports/FY23-Ricegrowers_Limited-Financial%20Results.pdf). pp. 1–11. Archived from [the original](https://investors.sunrice.com.au/FormBuilder/_Resource/_module/2weQNICYSUy13FE_jxQXvg/file/financial-reports/FY23-Ricegrowers_Limited-Financial%20Results.pdf) on 18 October 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023.

1. Coates, Jessica (2017-10-23). ["Local rice industry on the national stage"](https://www.irrigator.com.au/story/5004869/local-rice-industry-on-the-national-stage/). *The Irrigator*. Retrieved 2018-01-16.

1. ["Our 70th Anniversary"](https://sunrice.com.au/about-us/our-70th-anniversary/). *SunRice*. Retrieved 2023-01-20.

1. SunRice Group (26 July 2022). ["Investor Presentation"](https://investors.sunrice.com.au/DownloadFile.axd?file=/Report/ComNews/20220726/02545375.pdf). *SunRice*. Retrieved 2018-01-16.

1. [2017 Annual Report](https://web.archive.org/web/20180130145652/https://www.sunrice.com.au/media/602105/2017-sunrice-annual-report.pdf) SunRice

1. ["Corporate > Our Businesses"](https://www.sunrice.com.au/corporate/our-businesses). *SunRice*. Retrieved 2016-07-14.

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