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T&G Global Limited is engaged in distributing, marketing and exporting fresh produce. The business was started as a fruit and flower shop by Edward Turner in 1897. He was later joined by nine sons and the business grew to became E Turner & Sons Ltd. This amalgamated with a grower co-operative in 1921 to form Turners & Growers Ltd. In December 2002 the group acquired 100% of pipfruit exporter ENZA Ltd, owned by Guinness Peat Group, in return for 44.2m of Turners shares worth $101.9m. This transaction resulted in GPG gaining control of the merged entity. In 2004 TUR separated the ENZA Foods manufacturing operations into a stand-alone company, owned independently by TUR shareholders. In September 2004 it made a compliance listing on the NZX, with no new shares being issued. Major divisions are: Turners and Growers Fresh Ltd - fruit & produce & flower wholesalers, auctioneers and distributors, importers, exporters, transport operators, prepackers and produce container hirers; Status Produce Ltd - glasshouse tomato production and other covered crops; packhouse operators; ENZA Ltd - world-wide pipfruit exporters and coolstore operators. In February 2008 the company declared its takeover bid for Kerifresh Ltd unconditional. Kerifresh is a major lemon, mandarin and kiwifruit grower/packer in Kerikeri. TUR said the purchase will strengthen its standing in the citrus fruit category. In 2012 BayWa, a German investment company purchased 72.5 percent of Turners & Growers. The company launched its current corporate brand in 2014. T&G is listed on NZX in May 2015 under the name of Turners & Growers Limited ("TUR"). It changed its current name and code in May 2015.

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