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GMP is one of Australia’s most innovative, progressive and trusted lamb processors.

Operating exclusively on a fee for service basis means GMP does not compete with clients for lambs in livestock markets or for customers in wholesale / retail markets.

This important point of difference allows GMP to capitalise on market demand for particular clients who wish to control the product through the supply chain and lets us focus on what we do well – processing lambs.

Tier 2 Export
Certified
Fee for service
operator
1 million lambs
processed annually
100% Australian
owned and operated
World class facility
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Company History

Our family, the Bartons, has been associated with Gundagai’s meat industry for almost 100 years, spanning three generations.


In 1919, Fred W. Barton began a butcher’s apprenticeship in South Gundagai before ultimately owning and operating “Barton’s Butchery” in the main street of Gundagai.

His sons, Tony and Bill Barton, built on the knowledge passed on to them from their father and in September 1974 constructed a small abattoir on the outskirts of South Gundagai on a farm originally owned by Fred Barton’s grandfather William Barton (1853-1928).

More on our story
GMP History
22 Nov 2023

Gundagai Lamb teams up with Grill’d burger chain

A branded lamb product from Gundagai Meat Processors has landed a spot on the menus of an Australian burger chain.

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07 Nov 2023

Gundagai Lamb “star of the menu” at Red Sky, Bangkok

Red Sky Restaurant at Centara Grand at CentralWorld, Bangkok, has a new chef de cuisine and a new menu, featuring Gundagai Lamb as the “star of the menu”.

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13 Oct 2023

Commodity Conversations: Making sense of the Lamb market

CEO Will Barton talks to Robert Herrmann from Mecardo on the podcast series, Commodity Conversations, about the supply and demand system at play with lambs currently and look ahead to the Summer.

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WORKING WITH GMP MEANS…

There’s so much more to GMP
than meat processing.

Career opportunities

World class facilities

Safety first

Job satisfaction

Work-life balance

Part of a $23B Australian industry

Above award industry pay

Our achievements

250

employees making us one of the largest employers in the region

1,000,000

lambs processed each year

70

countries approved for export
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