March 19, 2012

PCA was again proud to be a major sponsor of the annual Wine and Food in the Park Festival, held in Kingaroy on March 10.

The PCA marquee hosted food demonstrations throughout the day as well as the "Sample the South Burnett" dinner with Master of Wine Peter Scudamore-Smith in the evening.

December 22, 2011

Kingaroy's iconic peanut silos have been featured in the latest edition of the Queensland Heritage Council's "Time and Place" magazine.

The silos were entered into the Heritage Register last year - and as the magazine notes, they are one of Queensland's more unusual listings.

December 21, 2011

Well-known Aussie businessman Dick Smith visited Kingaroy last Friday to push a "Buy Australian" message in support of local peanut growers.

Dick, who was accompanied on his whistlestop visit by a planeload of reporters and photographers, has convinced Coles supermarkets to leave an empty space on their shelves until he can source enough Australian peanuts to resume supplying them with full stocks of his Dick Smith Peanut Butter brand.

December 20, 2011

"It's been a very tough year, but we're hoping for a better 2012" ... this was the message PCA Managing Director Craig Mills had for employees at the company's annual Christmas Lunch held in Kingaroy last week.

December 2, 2012

North Queensland canegrower Andrew Greenwood has become a big fan of peanuts over the past four years.

He grows them as a break crop on his family property Thalaba, about 8km east of Gordonvale.

November 10, 2011

PCA has been named as a finalist in the 2011 NAB Agribusiness Awards for Excellence.

October 31, 2011

The organisers of the Kingaroy Peanut Festival sponsored a new-look town festival in Kingaroy on Saturday .... a motoring spectacular dubbed "South Burnett Motors In Motion" at Kingaroy Airport.

July 25, 2011

The Peanut Company of Australia has been recognised among Australia's most progressive organisations, winning a 2011 Australian Business Award for Innovation for its launch of the new peanut variety "Tingoora".

The Australian Business Award for Innovation, which was announced on last Friday, recognises organisations that have made significant contributions to their industry through the introduction or improvement of an idea, method, technology, process or application resulting in an economic, environmental, educational and/or social benefit.

June 28, 2011

A promised six weeks' work has turned into a 40-year career for PCA's Raw Plant manager Chris Seng who was honoured at the company's annual Long-Serving Employees Dinner held in Kingaroy last week.

Chris was presented with a certificate and gift to mark his 40 years of service to the company

Managing Director Craig Mills described Chris as an "icon" at PCA and a "quiet achiever".

March 15, 2011

Twelve-year-old Lachlan White's "finger lickin'" chicken wraps wowed the judges at the PCA Junior Cook-Off, held as part of the 2011 Wine and Food in the Park Festival this month in Kingaroy.

Lachlan, from Kingaroy, was accompanied on stage by his mum Simone and prepared two servings of the dish in front of a large audience in the PCA marquee.