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News @ Cedar Creek Company

It is with enthusiasm that we present our first newsletter since Cedar Creek Company acquired Sastek on the 1st of August 2008. Our expanded company is operating under the Cedar Creek Company banner and the Sastek name lives on through the delivery and development of our harsh environment hardware. The Sastek range has proven its reliability with decades of superior performance, and now forms the basis for our core product range.

Our shared history, and the recent merging of our proud teams have added to our collective strength and have truly established Cedar Creek Company as a pre-eminent supplier of technology to the perishable food industries in Australia and around the world.

This acquisition has enabled Cedar Creek Company to achieve economies of scale, and the consequential productivity gains we have made place us in an enviable position to deliver certainty for our clients in the face of the changing international economic environment.

Every year our clients grow, produce and trade literally millions of tonnes of perishable produce. Our process systems, logistics, and mobility solutions help distribute these products to leading food retailers both locally and internationally. Our clients place enormous demands everyday on their teams and our systems, therefore, our systems become a critical part of the process and must be highly functional and reliable.

Key solutions include:Sastek • harsh environment hardware solutionsVIAscan • vision systems for carcase yield managementFoodChain • software systemsMobility Solutions • wireless enterprise mobility Labelling Solutions • label consumables & application technologiesHookTrack • RFID hook tracking systems

Our research and development teams headed by Sean Clitheroe and Ian Carson are focused on anticipating our clients’ needs and creating solutions before being asked. We are nimble enough to respond to industry change and strong enough to lead innovative developments that provide measurable outcomes for our clients. The search for productivity gains is a continuous theme of our R&D programs.

Cedar Creek Company aims to be the first choice and preferred supplier to both our traditional perishable and new fresh supply markets.

For decades we have been providing systems which allow our clients to measure and determine production methodologies throughout their facilities. These end to end systems produce a database capable of delivering traceability from the farm through production to warehouse and from the warehouse to the plate. True traceability is an outcome of that data.

Today we are seeing consistent enquiry for the transfer of our knowledge and disciplines learnt in the meat industries to the fresh produce industries. Yesterday we purchased a lettuce; today a salad is delivered in a consumer ready bag. The time to market from harvest to consumption is shorter, more complex and the risks have expanded substantially.

Perishable logistics rely heavily on real time information about quality and availability. For example when product is rejected it has a major impact on deliverables. The technology we implement allows significant improvements in handing these variables through communication tools which talk to each other and report these changes and allow facilities to maintain high level product throughput. The capital invested is often returned with gains in productivity and quality that far outweigh the initial cost.

It is with pride that we offer to you the services of Cedar Creek Company. Our people are absolutely passionate about what they do and take great pride in the products and services we deliver. I give you my personal commitment that our team will deliver the right product and supply the right solution for your business.

Yours sincerely,

Tony Abbott - Director

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Tony Abbott – Director

our Comprehensive range of solutions

SASTEKhardware systems

The Sastek range of hardware has a proven reliability with more than 20 years of superior performance and forms the core product range for many Cedar Creek Company solutions. The range complements our other products with their distinct harsh environment stainless steel look, and rugged reliability. With products including Harsh Environment Computers, PrintTerms and Printer enclosures, the Sastek name is synonymous with high quality on floor processing and data capture equipment within the food industry.

VIAscan®

Improving bottom line performance relies on being able to better manage the key performance areas of your business. The objective on-line measurement of the quality and yield of product you process, and the provision of this information in a timely and value added manner is paramount to making the best possible business decisions.

The VIAscan® Technology is a world leading system providing accurate and objective on-line measurement of carcase yield and quality. Based on state of the art vision technology, VIAscan® measures and records beef and lamb carcase characteristics to determine carcase value.

Supported by advanced web-based information delivery solutions, VIAscan based objective measurement systems provide you with timely and accurate information. This allows you to make the best decisions for your business success.

Key benefits delivered by VIAscan® Technologies include:Maximised return by optimising the utilisation of products at a primal level to specific • orders.Timely management of operational performance through monitoring of boning and • procurement based on objective information.Minimal operator input required for slaughter-floor based systems.• Only pay for the real value of beef or lambs supplied.• Maximised returns by benchmarking beef and lamb suppliers based on yield and quality. • Seamless integration into web-based supply chain management information delivery.• Improved trust in trading relationships through objective measurement and audit systems.•

LABELsolutionsTotal Label Solutions

We provide comprehensive label solutions to enable your business to label your product no matter your production environment, shape of your product or speed of your production line. We specialise in harsh environments where moisture and extreme temperature are factors. We use only premium substrates that have excellent printing, scuff and scanability attributes.

We supply Carcase Tags, Tamper Evident Carton Labels, Port Marks, both blank and printed high temperature thermal inserts allowing you to label pre shrink, as well as prime cut scale labels.

We have labels specifically designed for high speed fully automated pack lines as well as manual carton weigh stations. We pride ourselves on our industry knowledge and experience and we work closely with our clients to provide a cost effective labelling solution which ticks all the boxes.

We also provide label application solutions across a variety of production areas. At Cedar Creek Company, we have the entire labelling solution for your business.

A Recent “Feedback Report” from the MLA1 highlighted the top 25 Red Meat Processors from around Australia along with other key information about the industry. Out of these 25, Cedar Creek Company have infrastructure and traceability solutions in 18 of these key Australian meat processors.

We also have a key presence in 2 of the top 3 meat processors in New Zealand.

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Busy.... Busy.... Busy

The past few months have been a very busy period for us. We have had staff move offices, implemented renovations to our existing head office in Kelvin Grove in order to accommodate the increased numbers now within our business, and have all gotten acquainted with all of the fantastic new faces now working together in this great team.

The positive attitude and feeling now flowing within the office can only mean great things are afoot and we strive to take this positive feeling into the marketplace and to our customers.

By no means is this busy time over as we begin new plans for increased customer visits, improving our software and hardware solutions and taking the Cedar Creek Company offering to more industries and more areas in the world.

18 of top 25 meat proCessors Choose Cedar Creek Company

FOOD chain™software systems

The Foodchain™ modular software system fully integrates the whole supply chain, from sales orders received via the Web to production control on the shop floor through to placing orders via e-commerce with suppliers utilising EDI or XML standards.

All aspects of a company’s activities can be controlled and monitored via the system. All inventory owned by a company can be traced within the system including perishable food products, ingredients, packaging, engineering spares, consumables and office supplies. All items can be tracked using their standard or actual cost.

By providing total integration, all costs and revenues can be recorded allowing for profit analysis as the goods leave the store. All financial information is passed through to the sophisticated financial and executive reporting systems or through an interface routine to existing financials.

The Foodchain™ software system provides back office and on floor harsh environment solutions across many industries, including:

Meat & Livestock Processing• Fresh Produce & Processing• Food Service • Seafood Processing•

MOBILITY solutionsEnterprise Wireless Mobility

The technology that has evolved around wireless devices today has increasingly allowed for greater mobility of the workforce to take place. Increased mobility and the use of wireless devices address a number of issues that exist in business today. The greatest benefit that can be derived across all industries is the availability of information at the point of process.

This seamless mobility of information access for the workforce, provides for real time data access, allowing for offsite access to inventory, sales, customer and service data. The end result is a greater flow of information throughout the organisation. Benefits can be seen from the perspective of all departments within an organisation, in particular operations, dispatch and customer service.

We provide customised mobility solutions and devices across many industries, including:

HOOK trackRFID solutions

Our RFID Hook Tracking solutions are successfully installed throughout many leading processing facilities, providing complete data integrity from the kill floor, through the boning room and to the quarter load-out.

Each hook contains an embedded RFID tag onto which a unique identity is assigned. When a carcase is attached to it, both hook and meat travel through the production facility together

Scanners in key locations throughout the abattoir keep a track of the tag’s movement as it is passes through various processes, allowing the collation of key data for each specific animal.

We look forward to hearing from you throughout 2009 and thank you for your continued support.

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General Manager

Group Sales ManagerSales Administrator

Product Manager - VIAscanNational Manager - Labelling Solutions

National Business Development ManagerNational Business Development Manager

Business Development Manager - W.A.Technical Relations ManagerTechnical Relations Manager

National Business Development ManagerNational Business Development Manager

Marketing Manager

Group Operations ManagerSoftware Delivery ManagerSoftware Product Manager

Administration Manager

Senior Management

Sales Team

Australia

New Zealand

Marketing

Software and Hardware Delivery

Accounts

Tony AbbottLynne LambertKeith RoskamSean Clitheroe

Peter DewarLorraine Wing

Daniel MeehanMark TownsendNeil PittPhillip AdamsPierre JoubertGeneroso DeMarteGeorge Ciecko

John LawrenceTony Hurley

Simon Ritchie

Sean ClitheroeJoel IrelandIan Carson

Cath Tester

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Cedar Creek Company Pty Ltd11 / 62 Bishop St, Kelvin Grove, Queensland 4059, Australia // phone: +61 (0) 7 3356 0999 // fax: +61 (0) 7 3356 2366

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VIAscan® shows strong international growth

VIAscan continues to broaden value to meat processors by underpinning yield and quality based carcase payment systems around the world.

Success in France

The VIAscan® Sheep Carcase System has successfully completed a series of trials conducted by the French Lamb Industry for the on-line objective assessment of EUROP Conformation and Fat Score, and yield. Cedar Creek’s VIAscan Technology has been localised to meet the language and specific needs of lamb processors in France and has been installed across a range of major processing regions.

The French Lamb Industry currently utilises the subjective value grading system commonly used through northern Europe. However, the challenges presented by inconsistent grading across various processing plants and the relatively poor correlation of manual grading to actual carcase value has prompted the industry to consider more accurate objective technologies.

Cedar Creek is partnering with French company Normaclass to provide local support and market knowledge. Normaclass has a strong foundation in the on-line objective measurement of beef carcases in France and broader European markets.

Cedar Creek Company would like to wish you all the very best for the festive season and the coming year ahead.

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