Our Story

Nolan Meats is a 100% Australian, family-owned company founded as a small retail butchery business in Gympie in 1958. Today, Nolan Meats focuses on producing quality grainfed beef for the delivery to retailers, further processors, wholesalers and international markets.

The business is vertically integrated throughout the beef chain from breeding to feed lotting, processing, distribution and wholesaling. This allows the business to focus on ‘whole of chain’ value adding and maximising the information flow from consumer to the producer.

The processing plant is export accredited and has the capabilities to process over 1,100 cattle per day. Beef products from the abattoir are distributed around Australia and exports overseas to Brunei, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Middle East, Taiwan, USA and other eligible markets

The feedlot operation turnoff over 100,000 head per year and supplies over 80% of cattle processed through the abattoir. This includes a company owned feedlot and three custom feeding sites.