Scales Corporation Limited Companies

Cashreal Properties Limited

Cashreal Properties Limited owns Scales House which is situated in Christchurch and houses the Senior Management of the Scales Group.  This six storey building has a lettable area of 3,396 square metres and is fully tenanted with 16 tenants comprising various businesses. 

Geo. H. Scales Limited

Named after its founder, Geo. H. Scales has a long history of involvement in the shipping and cargo industry sectors and acts for many New Zealand and overseas principals. Over the years the company has acquired an indispensable knowledge of New Zealand's port operations, and its import and export trades.

Scales has also developed an intimate understanding of the requirements of international shipping companies and charterers and has offices and sub-agents in all major New Zealand ports thereby enabling nationwide port coverage. With over one hundred years experience in the shipping industry Geo. H. Scales is New Zealand's most reliable, experienced and trusted shipping company.

Liqueo Bulk Storage Limited

Liqueo Bulk Storage Limited operates sites in Hawke's Bay and Timaru. It has a total of 36 tanks with a total capacity of 10,500 tonnes able to store both edible and inedible tallow, oils and other liquid products. Liqueo also provides bleaching, refining and reprocessing services.

Meateor Foods Limited

Meateor Foods Limited has plants in Hawke's Bay and Dunedin and uses customised plant and technology to transform meat offcuts into ready-to-use ingredients for the local and international petfood industries. After processing, the product is plate frozen in flat block shapes, which allows for easy storage and handling. Consistently high yields and reliability has resulted in Meateor taking its place as the foremost petfood processing company in New Zealand.

Mr Apple New Zealand Limited

As the country's largest company involved in all stages of apple production, from growing through to marketing, Mr Apple New Zealand Limited is a major player in New Zealand's apple industry. The company has three packhouses and seventeen orchards in Hawke's Bay and grows in excess of two million cartons of apples each year. Contracted growers also supply apples for sale under Mr Apple's brand.

Polarcold Stores Limited

Operating in the South Island, the Polarcold Stores network operates cool and cold storage facilities strategically located in Christchurch, Timaru and Dunedin providing over 120,000 tonnes of storage space together with blast freezing capacity. The company provides a wide range of services to cater for frozen and chilled meat, dairy, fish and horticultural products.

Scales Logistics Limited

Scales Logistics Limited is an independent freight consolidator with close links to major global carriers. This enables the company to specialize in supplying tailored international freight and land side services to provide an all encompassing import and export transportation service.

Selacs Insurance Limited

Selacs Insurance Limited is a captive insurance company which allows the Scales Group to reduce its reliance on commercial insurance markets and the resultant exposure to the volatile insurance cycle.

Silverstream Industrial Park Limited

Silverstream Industrial Park Limited owns 12 hectares of industrial land and buildings at Mosgiel near Dunedin.  Originally the complex was built in 1993 as the Fortex Silverstream Plant.  Latterly, Silver Fern Farms Limited have owned it and Scales purchased the complex in August 2008.  This is a well located, modern facility with multi purpose use as a coldstorage, drystorage and food processing factory.

Whakatu Cold Stores Limited

With six separate cold stores situated in the Hawke's Bay area to service the region's prolific meat and fruit industries, Whakatu Coldstores offers a total storage capacity of over 64,000 tonnes consisting of dual purpose chillers/freezers, blast freezers and controlled atmosphere rooms. All stores are licensed to comply with MAF and EU requirements.

Whakatu Property Management Limited

Whakatu Property Management Limited owns 16 hectares of industrial land and buildings at Whakatu near Hastings in Hawke's Bay.  Originally the old Hawke's Bay Freezing Works, this property has been transformed into a multi tenancy industrial park.  Whakatu Property Management Limited also owns the building called Whakatu House - Mr Apple Head Office, and the Meateor pet food land and buildings in Dunedin