Company: COOT
Filing Date: 2025-06-23
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001641172-25-016159
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Company: Australian Oilseeds Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-06-23
Form: S-1/A
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 alternative products, some of which are made from different raw materials than those utilized by the Company. Given the commodity-based nature of its businesses, the Company, on an ongoing basis, focuses on managing unit costs and improving efficiency through technological improvements, productivity enhancements, and regular evaluation of the Company’s asset portfolio. The Company’s business is a vertically integrated business that provides ingredients and food products for food-grade consumption in a highly competitive environment with a variety of companies offering the same products and services. The industry includes ingredient suppliers, contract manufacturers, global fast moving consumer goods companies, and private label brands, as well as smaller companies that specialize in specific niche markets.

The Company focuses on staying ahead of the curve in terms of innovation and production solutions, focusing on consumer needs, expanding into new markets, building strategic partnerships, and building a strong distribution network. The Company will need to extend extra efforts to create awareness in the market through promotional activities to achieve market acceptance for its high-quality non-GMO food-grade oils and protein meals.

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Employees

The Company has 21 full-time employees and 7 full-time equivalent contractors working at the factory and 8 full-time equivalent contractors working for the management team. The Company believes its relationship with its employees and contractors is cooperative and its employees and contractors share the same goals as management to industrialize oilseeds, making the products available worldwide.

As the Company expands, it believes it will be able to source personnel that can contribute to the technical, marketing and business development aspects of the company.

Facilities and Expansion

The Company leases a 6.02-hectare property in Cootamundra, Australia, where the oilseed processing plant and ancillary buildings accommodating the equipment, and facilities are located. The Company obtained an AUD$14 million bank facility to fund the expansion of the Cootamundra facility. The Company has deployed the AUD$14 million bank facility as follows: (i) AUD$4 million was allocated for equipment finance, (ii) AUD$8 million for construction costs to expand the facility, and (iii) AUD$2 million for business growth and working capital related to the crushing plant’s expansion.

The Company has expanded its existing oil processing plant and is building a multi-oilseed crushing plant near Emerald in the Central Queensland region that is expected to deliver a crucial expansion of the Company’s operational footprint. This facility will produce edible oil feedstocks to meet the growing Asia-Pacific market, and bio-diesel feedstock to fuel the renewable energy revolution, to eventually reach a total