The quest to use every part of every grain of wheat has turned a regional family business into a zero-waste global player.
WE'VE all done it. Popped out for one thing and come back with something entirely different. But not many can say they have done it on the scale of the Honan family.
In 1952, Jack Honan was working at an abattoir in Sydney. In his spare time, to earn a little extra cash, he delivered wheat to flour mills in regional New South Wales. One weekend he left home to deliver a load of wheat to a small flour mill in Manildra, in the state’s central west. He came home with the mill.
It was a decision that would change the life of the Honan family and led to the founding of one of Australia’s largest regional businesses, Manildra
Group.
