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Welcome to this special 60th anniversary celebration of thee iconic Western Australian food brand D’Orsogna.

As managing director, I invite you to share the a corporate entity with the hiighest great family story that is the 60 year history of standards of governance and a strategic D’Orsogna in WA. vision for the future. I deliberately here refer to the brand D’Orsogna, The D’Orsogna name, when heard rather than the company or corporate entity, or seen, is automatically associated because I believe the brand is what you, as West with fi ne food. Australians, have grown to enjoy and have willingly The family flavour continues to permeate welcomed into your homes since 1949. the company today, with the presence on Whether it’s a succulent D’Orsogna leg ham on the D’Orsogna Board of Directors of Marco your Christmas lunch table, to be carefully carved (son of Giovanni) and Tina and Eugene and shared among family and friends, or some (daughter and son of Tom). D’Orsogna continental style sliced meats lovingly The D’Orsogna executive management team prepared by mum for the kids’ school lunch, it’s still is a well-versed, highly experienced and all about the great brand that is D’Orsogna. committed group of people, all focused Our brand stands for quality, in terms of taste, on ensuring the business grows product integrity, health and safety. sustainably and profifi tably. As 91 year old co-founder, Tom D’Orsogna, come a market leader said recently during one of his weekly visits Foror more than half a century DD’Orsogna Ors g has steadilyy g grown to be to the Palmyra factory, there are many more ice and satisfaction second to none. wonderful chapters of the D’Orsogna story to in WA’s food industry, while providing a level of customer serv be written. At ththe same titime, D’OD’Orsognaa recognisesi ththe need d D’Orsogna and its story will continue to put something back into the WA community and to grow, along with its ‘readers takes its role as a responsible corporate citizen very and contributors’, the people of seriously, regularly supporting community events, Western Australia. charities and worthy causes. While our landmark Palmyra premises, on the To all our customers and suppliers and all corner of Stock Road and Leach Highway, has D’Orsogna staffff and associates, past and present, a been our ‘home’ since 1973, D’Orsogna started sincere thank you for helping us build a business in 1949 as a one-man butcher shop in Stone and a brand which is highly respected, trusted Street, West Perth. and valued. For more than half a century D’Orsogna has steadily On behalf of D’Orsogna’s management and grown to become a market leader in WA’s food staffff, I invite you, our ‘extendded family’, to industry, while providing a level of customer service celebrate our 60th anniversary by enjoying and satisfaction second to none. ourour fi ne food productsproducts. D’Orsogna in 2009 is a long way from a one-man operation, now employing almost 500 people at Palmyra and our recently opened Melbourne facility, making us a true national supplier. While the company retains the original D’Orsogna BRAD THOMASON family values and business ethics, it operates as Managing Director, D’Orsogna Ltd.

EDITOR Alecia Myers I WRITER Chiara Dichiera I DESIGNER Jo Jamieson I ADVERTISING Silvio De Guara 9482 9706 Saturday October 31, 2009 On behalf of my fellow D’Orsogna board pork farmers through to our domestic and export D’ORSOGNA BOARD MEMBERS (L-R) Foreground: TINA D’ORSOGNA 3 members, Marco D’Orsogna, Eugene D’Orsogna, customers and consumers. We ensure we keep in Tina D’Orsogna, Michael Brown, Reg Webb, touch by regularly surveying the marketplace to Daughter of Tommaso D’Orsogna TRACEY HORTON Chair welcome Brad Thomason and Roseanne Thomas, ensure satisfaction is guaranteed. We listen and Background: REG WEBBB Independent Director respond to our customers’ needs. board of directors please join me in paying tribute to a Western BRAD THOMASON Company Managing Director Australian food brand that has a past worth ‘Qualita’ is more than just a corporate catchphrase ROSEANNE THOMAS Company Secretary celebrating and a future worth sharing. at D’Orsogna. Rather, it’s the company’s MARCO D’ORSOGNA Son of Giovanni D’Orsogna EUGENE D’ORSOGNA Son of Tommaso D’Orsogna Our future is bright, as we’re investing to ensure unwavering promise to consumers and the minimum standard achieved by all employees. MICHAEL BROWN (Accountant representing the that we’re not simply part of a changing industry, Giovanni D’Orsogna Family) but an industry leader. With vision and direction from a highly committed While we are tremendously proud of our WA roots, Board and the excellent day-to-day management D’Orsogna is branching out with the establishment of an experienced executive team and a loyal workforce, D’Orsogna has all of new production facilities on the east coast. the ingredients required for a In adding this extra arm to the business, we’ve future of ‘qualita’ in Australian injected considerable capital, with approximately homes and workplaces. $20 million invested on works upgrades and technology to more effiffi ciently produce superior, safer products. D’Orsogna’s attention to detail goes beyond simply producing top quality processed meat products. The company plays a role in every element of the PROFESSOR TRACEY supply chain, from paddock to plate. HORTON, We believe in maintaining good lines of Chair, Board of Directors, communication from our quality assured contract D’Orsogna Ltd.

Congratulations to the D’Orsogna family 60th anniversary

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Minter Ellison 152 -158 St Georges Terrace Perth T+61 8 9429 7444 www.minterellison.com CCelebrating gyg 60 y years D’ORSOGNA 4 time line 1927 1933 1938 1941- 1949 1950s 1960s 1973 1973- Luigi D’Orsogna Luigi’s sons, Cesare Giovanni arrives to 1945 March 7 – Cesare joins the The business grows The opening of 1983 arrives in Western and Tommaso, leave join his father and During the war D’Orsogna business. with increased sales state-of-the-art Major growth into Australia from Italy their hometown, two brothers. years the brothers commences trading The arrival of a and distribution premises in Stock the supermara ket to seek opportunities Lanciano, to join are interned. as a butcher shop large number of networks. Road, Palmyra. sector in WA and during the gold rush. their father in Stone Street, migrants allows the Appointment of an appointing agents iin Austtralliia. West Perth, trading bbusiiness to prodduce agent in Bunbury into Adelaide as T. D’Orsogna a continental range to cater for the and Melbourne Family Butcher. of smallgoods. south-west and for the continental The expansion of the subsequently into range. Period West Perth premises other regional areas of major product commences with the in WAA. innovation, acquisition of four establishing adjacent properties. D’Orsogna as a leader in the fi eld.

THE D’ORSOGNA STORY The 60 year old D’Orsogna business began as a family story more than 80 years ago when Luigi D’Orsogna travelled to the United States in 1926 to visit two of his brothers who’d migrated there Tom D’Orsogna four years earlier. Italian-born Luigi and Concetta D’Orsogna or the new America, as Australia was During the 1930s, Wiluna, in central Western had eight children: Antonietta (1914), Cesare colloquially nicknamed and all the money Australia, was a thriving mining community (1917), Tommaso (1918), Giovanni (1920), that was to be made there. with a population of more than 8000, of Mario (1922), Pierino (1923), Rosa (1925) which 200-to-250 people were Italian. Determined to migrate to Australia, Luigi did and Esterina (1926). Hearing about Wiluna’s prosperity, Luigi just that in October 1927, departing Italy for Luigi returned to Italy shortly after, Australia aboard the ship Caprera and arriving travelled there in 1931, fi nding work at understanding his small herd of 12 dairy in Fremantle on November 29. With the Great Wiluna Gold Mines Limited. cows could sustain him and his extended family Depression starting to bite, he travelled from After two years he had enough money to buy Marco, Tina, Eugene and Brad: the new better than working in the US. He heard from town to town looking for work, before starting passage for two of his sons, Cesare aged 16 generation with MD Brad Thomason relatives in his village of “la nuova America”, in a granite quarry in Roleystone in 1929. and Tommaso (Tom) aged 14, who arrived in

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1977- 1983 1985 1990 1993 2002- 2009 1984 Integration into The company A major fi re destroys The D’Orsogna 2008 The company acquires a production The second farming. pursues diversifi ca- half of the Palmyra second generation Focus on the facility in Melbourne. generation of tion by acquiring an factory, causing implements the national market D’Orsogna continues to actively the D’Orsogna 1984 ice cream and frozen serious disruption corporate plan leads to an support charitable works and family enters Cesare, who had desserts facility. to operations. Due and formalises the unprecedented community activities throughout the business. returned to Italy to an overwhelm- structure of the growth. Western Australia. in 1960, exits the ing support by the company. Family D’Orsogna also regularly engages company to pursue employees and members move to with schools to educate young other interests. community, the non-executive people about traditional and modern company returns to positions on the smallgoods manufacturing systems. full operation within Board and external The D’D Orsogna Cup was established 12 months. board members in 1960 and remained Western and a managing Australia’s premier soccer event director are for more than 30 years. The introduced. D’Orsogna 25 year club was inaugurated at the 40th Anniversary celebration on November 11, 1989.

Fremantle on September 12, 1933 Cesare fi nding work at the Italian owned Wiluna Meat Supply, about possible work Effffectively, this was the beginninginning of aboard the ship Romolo. and operated Rome Bakery where he spent for Tom. Mr Clarke said there was work at D’Orsogna Limited as it is known today. the abattoir 10km out of Wiluna for a man, The pair were greeted by Mr Casotti, 15 months before joining his father at the Cesare, due for a holiday after three years but not for a boy of 15 years. owner of an Italian restaurant in James mines at the age of 18. mining at Wiluna, headed for Fremantle Street, Perth, as Luigi could not be at Luigi, keen to find work for Tom, Luigi’s persistence, however, convinced to greet another brother, Giovanni (John), the port to welcome his sons and had purchased a fruit and vegetable door to Mr Clarke to give Tom a chance to prove who’d arrived in Fremantle on January 9, made arrangements with Mr Casotti to door business from a Greek friend and himself. Tom constantly asked Mr Clarke 1938, aboard the ship Remo. They both accommodate the boys while they waited Tom worked this business for a while, but if there were any jobs at the butcher shop returned to Wiluna to join their father. for a train to Wiluna. After a couple of days in town and eventually started in the was inexperienced at the tender age of 15 Cesare, with four other Italian men, thought stay with Mr Casotti, the brothers started smallgoods manufacturing factory adjacent and didn’t understand the business, so it they’d try their hand at gold prospecting at their journey to Wiluna. to the Wiluna Meat Supply’s Butcher eventually went broke. Mt Vernon (120km east of Wiluna), after When the brothers arrived in Wiluna, Luigi Shop, where he spent four years making hearing of a great gold find. enrolled them at the local Catholic school, Luigi, with Tom by his side, then Australian style sausages, frankfurts, polony, but they didn’t remain there too long, with approached Jim Clarke, who managed corned beef, pickled pork and dripping. Q continued page 6

Like Steggles the D’Orsogna name is a long established and proud Steggles would business having serviced the West Australian public for many years. Steggles has been supplying the WA market for many years with quality fresh and frozen chicken and turkey products. Steggles also sells a range of fully cooked chicken and turkey lines, available in all like to congratulate major supermarkets and leading food outlets. Now is the time to start talking turkey with Christmas fast approaching. For all chicken and turkey enquiries speak to your D’Orsogna for their local supermarket or food outlet or speak to our WA customer service team on (08) 9444 7055. Steggles would like to thank D’Orsogna for 60th anniversary using Steggles quality products for many years - congratulations again.

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Due to the shortage of work in 1939 at Wiluna continental and Italian-style smallgoods and opened Luigi returned permanently to Italy in 1951, after Meat Supply, Tom finished there and joined his his own smallgoods business, T. D’Orsogna Family an absence of 24 years. On September 5 the same 6 brother Cesare prospecting at Mt Vernon. Shortly Butcher in Stone Street, West Perth in March 1949, year, another D’Orsogna brother, Pierino, migrated THE after, Australia offiffi cially entered into World War II marrying Maria Carrello the same year. to Australia aboard the ship Neptunia. and during the next few years the D’Orsogna As their business prospered, Tom and John D’ORSOGNA brothers were captured and interned, despite involved themselves in many pursuits, the fact that Tom, Cesare and John were sponsoring many cultural activities important STORY Australian citizens at the time of their capture to Italians. They established the D’Orsogna Cup and subsequent internment. in 1960, a soccer competition which helped After all three were released in August 1944, establish and promote soccer in WA at a time Cesare joined the merchant navy, John when Australian Rules was the dominant moved to Kalgoorlie to work at the Main football code. It was the state’s premier soccer Reef Hotel as a barman and Tom began work competition for more than 30 years. at Robbs Jetty, South of Fremantle, where John D’Orsogna developed the Italian Choir in he spent three years in the boning room, Perth and later became a patron of the Western slaughtering area and cool rooms. Australia Opera Company. While holidaying in From there, Tom left for Melbourne in 1947 Italy John met his future wife Diva. They married and found day time employment at Otto Workers outside the D’Orsogna factory at Palmyra after the fi re in 1990. there and returned to Perth together in 1955. Wurth Pty Ltd, a continental smallgoods Tom and John have each been awarded an manufacturer in North Melbourne. In the John returned to Perth in May 1949, in partnership Italian Cavalierato for their services to the Italian evenings, he was employed at Cafe Latin, 206 community in WA; Tom in 1967 and John in 1972. Exhibition Street and Mario’s Restaurant, 198 with Tom. Cesare, meanwhile, had left the merchant Exhibition Street Melbourne. His brother John also navy and made his way back to Australia in 1948, D’Orsogna Smallgoods moved from West Perth moved to Melbourne in 1947 to work at Cafe Latin. working as a waiter on the Orient Line of passenger to the corner of Leach Highway and Stock Roads, ships. In 1951 Cesare became a partner as well and Palmyra in 1973. D’Orsogna products are now After two productive years in Melbourne, Tom the name of the business was changed to D’Orsogna sold Australia wide. returned to Perth, having learnt enough about Brothers Pty Ltd.

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WP261010W6A Celebratinggy 60 years 8 D’ORSOGNA From humble beginnings in 1949, D’Orsogna has established itself projects as a leading manufacturer and supplier of quality meat products, not and future only to its ‘home’ state of Western Australia, but now interstate with the opening of its new Melbourne plant in October 2009.

D’Orsogna managing director, development of the business, we’re into Victoria, we’re demonstrating Brad Thomason, says expansion moving forward and into the next we’re national,” he says. “With an to eastern Australia and national consolidation and development offiffi ce, premises and a manufacturing development of the business was phase,” Brad says. business in Melbourne, we’re identififi ed and recommended in As part of its ongoing strategic now national in the true sense and a comprehensive review several planning, the next question this will create more opportunities years ago by a leading management D’Orsogna will address is how for growth. consultancy, in conjunction with and where to continue to grow “Our recent growth in turnover the D’Orsogna Board and Executive the business. and market share has largely been Management team. Brad believes this growth will be on generated interstate through the Opening in Melbourne was one of the east coast, while still ensuring major supermarket groups and key the key performance indicators the ‘home’ state is serviced as national food service accounts. of that strategic planning process. impeccably as ever, with product “Hence we intend further increasing “Now that we’ve reached that mixes matched to specifific markets. our brand profifile and market important milestone in the “With us stepping outside WA and penetration in that direction. e’ Growth will be on the east coast, while still ensuring the ‘hom

state is serviced as impeccably as ever, with product mixes matched to specifi c markets.

“While D’Orsogna has always procurement needs at the same enjoyed a very signifi cant market- time as the Australian pigmeat share in our home state of WA, built production sector has reduced. since the business started 60 years “This has necessitated a slight ago as a humble one man butcher shift in focus to where we now shop in West Perth, the time was allocate management resources to right to adjust our focus.” building and retaining relationships Going forward, the changing face with overseas suppliers, in North of raw material procurement is America and Europe.” infl uencing how D’Orsogna With D’Orsogna now operating manages its business. and trading locally and interstate “With meat procurement our major the needs and aspirations of cost and with pig numbers here management and staff have and interstate declining in recent also changed. years due to a range of factors, This has meant an increased we now operate in a global meat commitment to professional trading environment, selectively training and development, plus importing pigmeat to complement succession planning. supplies from our local and At the opening of Brad says it’s now all about interstate farmers,” Brad says. D’Orsogna’s new maintaining D’Orsogna’s growth Melbourne factory. “While we support Australian by improving market share and (L-R) Tina, Tom producers where we can, we’ve penetration in growth markets and (co-founder), Marco had to satisfy our expanding meat growth product categories. and Eugene D’Orsogna.

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35407ϖRSSD311009 Celebratinggy 60 years 10 meet the people BRAD THOMASON – Managing Director D’ORSOGNA managing director Brad developments and strategies built on “I’ve worked in all facets of the Thomason is the driving force behind a foundation of a team approach. production process and along the D’Orsogna’s substantial growth and “We have a strong, very professional way enjoyed the benefifi t of some very development during the last 10 years. management team who interact well good mentors,” he says. with each other and as individuals, Since joining as managing director in Brad describes the D’Orsogna bring good ideas to the table,” he says. 2000, he’s trebled turnover, enhanced business as having the best of both the company’s iconic brand, regularly Prior to D’Orsogna, Brad spent 30 worlds: it still has the flavour of the years in management positions Coast Eagles and takes a keen introduced new products that meet D’Orsogna families and now with the in the smallgoods and meat way the business is operated, it enjoys interest in several other sports, both and match the requirements and processing industry across Australia, the benefifi ts of being more corporate as a spectator and supporter. Brad is aspirations of today’s consumers and commencing as a trainee manager and better able to compete at all President of the Carbine Club in WA, helped put the D’Orsogna name on with JC Huttons. levels of a very competitive sector which contributes to the development the national map. His appointment as CEO, Meat and of the food industry. of young sports people in WA. Dairy Division, with George Weston Having steadily improved market The company’s 60th birthday is a While the Carbine Club is named Foods in 1986, brought him to WA, share statewide in its home state memorable experience for Brad. after one of Australia’s bravest where his headquarters were initially of WA, D’Orsogna now also supplies Brad and his team wish to and greatest racehorses, it extends at Watsons Foods/Watsonia. the likes of all major and independent congratulate and thank the D’Orsogna beyond the turf, celebrating sporting supermarkets and key food He spent 15 years managing family, customers and suppliers endeavour and recognising that while GWF’s Meat and Dairy Division’s service customers with quality who have assisted in making this winning is important, grace and Australia-wide operations meat products. milestone possible. courage also matter. spending much of his time away Further growth nationally will hinge from WA, interstate and overseas, Away from work, Brad enjoys time “Perhaps that story is a bit like the on an open door approach to ideas, before joining D’Orsogna. with his family, supports the West story of D’Orsogna,” Brad suggests.

SI LVAN O PERSICHILLO – Business Manager ORIGINALLY a crayfifisherman, Silvano Persichillo manager, looking after the route trade, independent quickly something could destroy something people was ‘pushed’ into a job at D’Orsogna 35 years ago supermarkets, deli’s and lunchbars, Foodworks, had worked so hard to build as a business.” by his mother, although he was enjoying crayfifishing Farmer Jacks and IGA, as well as local and interstate As a business manager, Silvano has had the privilege at the time. agents,” he says. of travelling on business to various parts of the “I applied for a job here after mum’s friend told her Silvano organises promotional programs, liaises with world and networking with potential and current there was a position and I should apply,” he says. buyers and marketing departments and has a team customers at trade shows and conferences. “I was given a job as a despatch hand, which I was of fi eld staffff, including six representatives in the Silvano has appreciated he has been able to retain hoping I wouldn’t get and I started a couple of weeks metro area and five in Bunbury. his Italian culture through his dealings with the later after my crayfifi shing contract finished.” Silvano says his saddest memory at D’Orsogna was D’Orsogna families and other Italian workmates. Silvano worked brieflfl y despatching orders, before the 1990 fi re, which burnt half the plant. “I was “One of the unique characteristics of D’Orsogna is progressing to van salesman and then sales inside the offiffi ce when the fi re started and when I got that while it’s a traditional family owned smallgoods representative. “In 1987 I accepted the position of outside the whole place was engulfed,” he remembers. manufacturer, it’s always been a progressive sales manager and in 2000 D’Orsogna restructured “Thankfully, everyone made it out safely. That day company for product development and has never and since then I’ve held the position of business has stuck in my mind and I just couldn’t believe how neglected its suppliers and customers,” he says.

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NEPHEW of D’Orsogna co-founder the year D’Orsogna was founded. “We started travelling up north by Tom D’Orsogna, John Di Vincenzo is a Originally, there were two sisters car once a year for two weeks and NATALIE CORREIAA – Packing Room Leading Hand despatch co-ordinator at D’Orsogna, and four brothers here after Nonno we’d carry samples, picking up where he’s worked for 45 years. (grandfather) Luigi D’Orsogna more customers every year. We’d AS IS so often the case at D’Orsogna, it’s a family affffair for packing room leading hand Natalie Correia, who started at In his earlier days he was a sales arrived and invited his children over drive all over the state, from Perth D’Orsogna in 1978. Her two sons, sister and sister-in-law also representative, but now his main to join him for a new life. to Carnarvon, Wyndham, Derby, work there in difffferent departments. responsibility is servicing the “In 1960 uncle Cesare and uncle Kununurra and even to Darwin,” he requirements of major clients. Peter went back to Italy, so there says. “It’s exciting to reflflect now on “My sister-in-law was working at D’Orsogna at the time and how the company has grown in the asked me to join her, so I applied for a job and With his parents Rosa and Camillo, were only two brothers and two last 10 years and the D’Orsogna started work here a few weeks after John arrived in Australia from sisters left here, and the remaining brand name continues to grow so applying,” Natalie says. Italy as a two year old in 1949, two brothers Tom and John carried on with the business,” John says. well right across Australia.” Natalie has been in D’Orsogna’s “I’ve always had a good relationship During his time at D’Orsogna, John packing room for more than 30 with my uncles and aunties and has spent 20 years on the Social years, starting as a packer like fondly recall many family parties, but Club Committee, responsible for everyone else and learning from her sadly that doesn’t happen so much organising many social events. seniors. Now she organises more than 60 staffff each day. anymore because the families of my “Being a member of the D’Orsogna aunties and uncles have progressed family and growing with the The people are the motivation with children and grandchildren of company, with all its ups and downs behind why Natalie loves her job their own.” over the years, has been a wonderful so much. “It’s very multicultural John’s proudest achievement is experience, one that I would not here, so you meet difffferent people working for his uncles and always change at all,” he says. from diffff erent countries and it makes the work environment so doing the best job he could. “I thank the D’Orsogna family for much richer and more rewarding,” “I was always proud to work for my the loyalty and work ethic they have she says. “I enjoy the friendships.” uncles and proud of the sacrififices instilled in me. I always will be very they made to achieve so much. But proud of what the D’Orsogna family Natalie describes her proudest for myself, I’ve worked here, I met has achieved over the years and the achievements as being continually my wife here, have had two children fact that they still move forward as involved with the people around her and life rolls on,” John says. “I feel a private company is perhaps the and knowing her job well. happy to come to work, do my job biggest achievement of all.” “Although I’ve been at D’Orsogna and respect the people I work for and a long time, I still love the family After hours John’s favourite hobby is work with here at D’Orsogna. environment here.” his Bonsai, a Japanese art of trees. “I “I enjoy coming to work each day, had never planted or grown a plant Balancing work and family, Natalie says it was diffifficult when mainly because what I do has a lot in the early years of my life, but I her children were younger. “I’d drop them offff at mum’s in the of variety, which brings with it a lot had lessons to learn about Bonsai morning, come to work and then pick them up from after school of job satisfaction.” and now after 20 years, I teach and care. It’s become a lot easier as they grew older.” One of John’s favourite memories demonstrate Bonsai,” he says. “When Natalie enjoys reading and travelling, particularly to Portugal was travelling all over WA as a I arrive home from work I like to where she was born. “I went to Portugal for three months D’Orsogna representative with the spend an hour or so watering and with my daughters fi ve years ago. I’ll go back again with my sales manager, beginning in 1973. tending to my 150 trees.” family and this time include Italy and South America in my travel schedule.” Celebratingyg 60 years

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GAETANO ARMENTI – Kitchen Hand AFTER 51 years service at D’Orsogna, Palmyra, Gaetano explains how Gaetano Armenti was to retire at the end his job is now easier. “The job is of June 2008, but asked if he could work a busier, yet easier through the use few days a week. of modern machines, rather than So, after about one month away, Gaetano manual handling.” returned part-time, Monday to Wednesday, D’Orsogna threw Gaetano a party back in the kitchen at D’Orsogna. after he’d served 51 years with the company. It was one of his proudest Gaetano came to Perth from Italy on a 29 achievements when he was given a trip day journey as a 17 year old. His father, after for two to Toronto, Canada, where his meeting him at the ship when he arrived in parents lived. Fremantle, went back to the country where he was working, leaving Gaetano to fend “I took my holiday to Toronto to see my for himself. mum and dad and then I came back to work. I missed my job and the people. Gaetano registered at the local employment I still enjoy seeing my old boss Tom offiffi ce and because he couldn’t speak a word D’Orsogna and each time he comes of English, they thought the D’Orsogna around, we have a good chat,” he says. business in West Perth would suit him, so In his spare time, Gaetano likes gardening, they sent him there. watching TV and watching a game of soccer “I found one of the bosses and in Italian I told or football on the weekend. He supports him I was looking for a job. He said yes, but Perth Glory, the West Perth Falcons and the we’re looking for a man. I said I’m small, but West Coast Eagles. I can do the job. Then he said okay you can D’Orsogna managing director, Brad start tomorrow,” Gaetano recalls. Thomason said it was a reflflection of the Gaetano started at D’Orsogna in March, 1957 working environment at D’Orsogna that a RON ALLEN – Dry Room Leading Hand and is now the longest serving employee. family environment was still maintained “Over the years I’ve done a bit of work in among the staffff. smallgoods, the kitchen and some cooking. In “Gaetano has become one of the family. His THREE years in retirement the kitchen we have about eight people and hard work and dedication to the D’Orsogna was enough to make Ron Allen we cook almost all the meat. Before I retired I name has helped build this company to the ‘insanely’ bored. The former sheep “I enjoy my work and it’s probably industry leader it is today and without people oversaw everything,” he says. shearer spent 40 years shearing why I’m one of the oldest here,” Experiencing a range of changes over the like Gaetano, we wouldn’t have this strong from Port Hedland to Albany, he says. “We have a good crew years, including the move from West Perth to market standing and reputation,” Brad says. before retiring in his 50s. in our department and liking the Fifteen years ago, in September people you work with is the recipe 1994, Ron went into D’Orsogna for job satisfaction.” asking if there were any jobs Ron has a lot of fun with his team, available and has been working full- including the occasional joke. He time in the dry room ever since. doesn’t fi nd his role stressful and “I retired at 51 and quickly got his only challenge is the weight of bored doing nothing,” Ron says. “As some of the meat when hanging it. CongratulationsCongratulations DD’Orsogna’Orsogna I live close to the factory, it made “Sometimes it can get quite heavy sense to ask about a job there. when there are four strings of coppa to hang, using one arm. John Psaila and Staff of Western Meat Mart would like “When you’ve worked hard all your If I went back to shearing I’d be so to congratulate our valued and respected client D’Orsogna Ltd life, it’s hard to stop, so retirement fi t I could get straight back into it,” wasn’t going to be easy for me. on reaching this important milestone. he says. After all, there’s only so much you We give D’Orsogna our commitment to continue to supply good quality can do around the house.” At home, Ron enjoys gardening product and provide great service in the years ahead. and doing odd jobs around his Ron is a leading hand in the dry house, but tries to steer clear We wish them all the best as they room where he washes products of painting these days. He’s not continue to grow into the future, such as ham, salami, coppa and much of a traveller, but admits prosciutto. The meat is washed by a the great business they have developed he wouldn’t mind checking out machine and then hung on a trolley Tasmania one day. over the past 60 years. Congratulation to dry. on the Meanwhile, he still enjoys getting Western Meat Mart Pty Ltd milestone. A typical week for Ron includes up each morning and heading into washing salami and prosciutto and D’Orsogna to spend the day with hanging all the products to mature what he fondly describes as “my for the required time. second family”. 38075 π SLSD311009 recipes

Ham and Eggs Triple Smoked Pasta with Ham, with Crusty Bread Ham Starters Peas and Pecorino Preparation Time: 30 minutes Preparation Time: 20 minutesutes Preparration Time: 30 minuutes Product: D’Orsogna Ham Product: D’Orsogna Triple Smoked Ham Producct: D’Orsogna Ham

Ingreddients: (Serves 4-6) Ingredients: (Serves 4-6) Ingredients: (Serves 4) 1 tbsp bbutter 2 eggs 200g sliced D’Orsogna 3 tbsp sppring onions, slicedd 1 tbsp olive oil Triple Smoked Leg Ham 1 clove garlic,g finely choppped 2-3 slices of ham 1/2 loaf of sliced crusty breead 1 tsp sugar (Pumpernickel Rye optional) 200g ham, cut into strips 1 tbsp sherry or red wini e vinegar Grainy mustard 200g greeen peas Salt and pepper to taste Small cherry tomatoes 200ml cream 1 tbsp parsley, choppedd or cherry bocconcini Pecorinoo cheese, salt and pepper to taste 500g fetttuccine cooked to manufacturer’smanufacturer’s iinstructionsnstructions Method: Method: Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Heat oil in fry Method:M h Take the sliced D’Orsogna TrTripleiple SSmokedmok d LLeg Ham pan and fry ham until golden. Sprinkle on Melt butter in a pan, add ham and cut into three sections on a diagonal. Use a circle sugar and let it caramelise. Add vinegar andd and peas and cook for three deglaze pan. shaped cutter to cut the round bases from the sliced minutes. Pour in cream and bread. Spread mustard generously over base. Transfer ham and glaze to an oven-proof simmer sauce until thickened.. dish, crack eggs and place on top. Cook Top with the D’Orsogna Triple Smoked Leg Ham Season with pecorino, salt and until egg whites have set. Season pieces rolled to create a small cup and fill with pepper to taste. Mix sauce to taste and scatter with either the small cherry tomatoes or cherry with cooked pasta. parsley. Serve with bocconcini to finish. crusty bread.

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14 Spicy Paella Cacciatora Triple Preparation Time: 40 minutes Smoked Product: D’Orsogna Cacciatora (Hot) Ham Ingredients: (Serves 4-6) 1 D’Orsogna Cacciatora (Hot) Potato sausage, thickly sliced Bake 200g stringless green beans cut into 5cm lengths Preparation 500g chicken, diced Time: 2 cups Arborio rice 30 minutes 1 tbsp olive oil Product: D’’Orsogna 1 red capsicum diced Triple Smoked Ham 1 dessert spoon paprika 1 onion finely chopped Ingredients: (Serves 4-6) 1-2 red chillies, seeded and sliced 150g shaved D’Orsogna Method: 5 cloves garlic, finely chopped Triple Smoked Leg Ham, Preheat oven to 180oC or 160oC for a fan forced oven. 4 sprigs of thyme or 1 tsp dried thyme fi nely chopped Thoroughly grease a 19cm or 20cm diameter springform 5 cups hot chicken or vegetable stock 600g (about 3 large) tin. Line the base of the tin with baking paper (if your tin with 1 tsp saffffron potatoes is not non-stick, line the sides of the tin also). 1/2 cup white wine 75g (1 cup) grated Peel and halve potatoes. Boil potatoes until tender and 8 peeled, raw prawns (optional) cheddar cheese drain. Allow potatoes to cool then cut into 1cm thick slices. Combine cheeses in a bowl. 16 mussels (optional) 45g (1/2 cup) grated parmesan cheese Cover the base of the prepared tin with a layer of potato slices. Season with salt and pepper. Top with half the Method: 1/2 medium onion, grated Heat olive oil in paella or fry pan. Fry the rice is coated with the flavours of the D’Orsogna Triple Smoked Leg Ham and onion. Sprinkle 4 large eggs sliced D’Orsogna Cacciatora to release the Cacciatora, chicken and vegetables. with about one third of the combined cheeses. Continue layering ingredients (seasoning each layer of potatoes), flavours, remove from pan and set aside. 250ml (1 cup) cream Pour over wine and add thyme. Place finishing with a layer of cheese. Add capsicums and green beans to the chicken, vegetables, Cacciatora in even Salt and pepper UseU a whisk or fork to beat the eggs and cream until well same pan and cook for three minutes, layers over the rice. Pour over hot combined. Gently pour the mixture over the ingredients remove from pan and set aside in stock, top with prawns. Cook on low for 10 minutes. inn the tin. Bake for about 50-60 minutes, until the top separate bowl. iss golden brown and the egg mixture has set. Cover the Do not stir, keep the layers undisturbed. Dust chicken with paprika and fry baake with aluminium foil if the top begins to over brown Add mussels and simmer for a further 10 until meat is sealed, remove from pan beefore the egg mixture has set. to 15 minutes. Turn offff the fl ame, cover and set aside. pan with lid or foil and let it sit for five Remove from oven and set aside for 5-10 minutes before Fry onions, chilli and garlic on gentle minutes, so the mussels are open, the reemoving from tin. Cut into wedges to serve. heat until soft, add rice and cook until stock absorbed and the rice al dente.

Cory Johnston (Aust) Pty Ltd are proud to be a supplier to D’Orsogna Limited and congratulate them on Sixty Years of manufacturing Australia’s Finest Smallgoods 64135π NSSD311009 Champagne Ham & Eggs Florentine Preparation Time: 15 minutes Product: D’Orsogna Champagne Ham Lentils with Ham, Onion annd Cherry Tomatoes Ingredients: (Serves 4) 200g D’Orsogna Champagne Ham, Hollandaise Sauce neatly shaved 200g unsalted butter Preparation Time: 30 minutes Product: D’Orsogna Ham 4 slices of bread 1/4 cup white wine vinegar Wilted baby spinach leaves 2 tbsp water 4 poached eggs 6 white peppercorns Ingredients: (Serves 4-6) 3 egg yolks 2 tbsp olive oil Sea salt and lemon juice to taste 1 onion peeled and fi nely sliced Method: 1 carrot peeled and fi nely sliced Hollandaise Sauce: Gently melt butter over a low heat. Add vinegar and 400g tin peeled tomatoes Jumbo Ham water with peppercorns and reduce down to one tablespoon of liquid. 1 punnet cherry tomatoes, Strain liquid into a small bowl. Fit bowl over matching saucepan half fi lled sliced in half Sandwich with hot water. Place saucepan over gentle heat, add egg yolks and whisk 2 cups puy lentils Preparation until pale and foamy, remove saucepan from heat. Slowly whisk in melted 3 cups chicken Time: 15 minutese butter, add seasoning with sea salt and lemon juice to taste. or vegetable stock Prodo uct: Cook English spinach until soft. Toast sliced bread, place toast on a 250g sliced ham, torn D’Orsogna Shaved plate and pile on cooked spinach. Top with Shaved D’Orsogna Champagne 1 bay leaf Ham and poached eggs. Spoon over hollandaise sauce while warm and Ham 4 tbsp parsley, chopped serve immediately. Salt and pepper to taste

Method: Heat oil in a casserole, add tinned tomatoes and bay leaf and cook until almost dry. Add some stock and deglaze pan. Ingredients: (Serves 1 person) Method: Add lentils and remaining stock, 2 slices of bread Spread bread slices with cover with lid and cook in hot Soft boiled eggs avocado or mustard and oven for 30 minutes. Pitted black olives mayonnaise. Top with lettuce leaves, shaved ham, celery Fry ham in a non-stick pan Sliced tomato until golden, add ham and juliennes, tomato, black olives Celery juliennes cherry tomatoes to lentils. and a soft boiled egg. Cook in oven for 15 minutes Shaved ham Notes & tipips: For a Lettuce nutritious kids snacck, serve or until lentils are tender. on a bed of baked beaans, hash Check seasoning and Mayonnaise / English mustard / avocado (optional) browns or ratatouille instead of toast. stir in parsley.

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LEONARD IMPORTERS Proprietor (Ray) R.LWOODCOCK Congratulations It is with pleasure that Leonard Importers congratulate D’Orsogna Ltd in celebrating 60 years of supplying quality small goods to D’Orsogna on people of Western Australia, and we have had the pleasure IKSD311009 To the Management & staff of D’Orsogna π over these years of supplying D’Orsogna with our range achieving your 78984 of disposable products as vinyl gloves, head covers, on the celebration of 60 years in business PE aprons sleeve cover and beard covers under the brand name of Disposa. 60 year milestone. 4 Brooks Road, Ingleburn NSW IKSD311009 π [email protected] Leonard Importers Western Salt Refinery 89399 JJSD311009 45706π NSSD311009 PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AND APPAREL Ph 9418 1126 Your natural lake salt supplier for over 30 years. π 37257 IGA5320 West Australian made produce whenever they can. This kind of local support has made D’Orsogna a real West Australian success st and we have the independent IGA supermarkets to thank for that. IGA are very loyal to WA companies like ours and they passionat year. The company has supported me and countless other West Australian workers over the years. The name D’Orsogna is known all “Loyalty is very important to me. That’s why I’ve worked at D’Orsogna since IGA, WA’s independent supermarkets, are proud supporters of WA producers. They support WAproducers like us. IGA are my local heroes. Gaetano Armenti, D’Orsogna, Palmyra, WA 1957 and I’m proud to still be working here in our th anniversary 60th anniversary ely support over WA ory.”