Founded 1964 | ||
Stanbroke Pastoral Company was a company once owned by AMP Limited that was once one of the largest land owners in Australia.
Established in about 1964, by 2003 the company owned 27 cattle stations in Queensland and the Northern Territory controlling some 1,160,000 square kilometres (447,879 sq mi) of pastoral country.
The company was purchased in 2004 by the Nebo Group who paid A$417.5 million plus taking on outstanding debts. The sale was by far the largest rural transaction in Australia's history and included a herd of approximately 5000,000 cattle. The Nebo group were a consortium made up of the founder of Hungry Jack's, Jack Cowin, the nations largest potato grower, Peter Menegazzo and five prominent pastoral families led by Peter Hughes. The syndicate fell apart later the same year leaving Menegazzo in charge of the entire business. Menegazzo bought out his fellow investors for an estimated A$340 million. On 2 December 2005, Menegazzo and his wife Angela were killed in a light plane crash in outback New South Wales leaving their four children Brendan, Mark, Deborah and David in charge pf the business.