Pgg Wrightson

The result of mergers within the stock and station agency industry in New Zealand, PGG Wrightson can trace its obvious ancestry back to 1851 with the establishment of George Gould’s general store and 1861 with the establishment of Wright Stephenson & Co. Its horticultural business, Fruitfed Supplies, dates back to 1916.

Notable stock and station agencies that have merged to form PGG Wrightson include

PGG Wrightson 2005

Wrightson NMA 1972

Wright Stephenson & Co

National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, which had taken over Russell Le Cren and Company, and Russell Ritchie and Company and Murray Roberts & Co

Levin & Co 1896

Wairarapa Farmer's Co-operative Association

Dalgety Crown 1983 bought by Wrightson NMA 1986

Dalgety New Zealand Loan 1962

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company

Dalgety New Zealand

Crown Consolidated merged with Dalgety 1983

Pyne Gould Guinness

Pyne & Co. Founded by FH Pyne.

Gould Beaumont & Co. founded in 1851 by Joseph Gould, George Gould and John Beaumont

Guinness & Le Cren Ltd, founded in 1890 by Edwin Rowland Guinness and Ernest Alfred le Cren

Reid Farmers merged with PGG 2001

Williams & Kettle, bought by Wrightson 2005In 2011 PGG Wrightson sold its finance division to Heartland Building Society to create a single larger rural financing organisation.In May 2019 PGW sold their Seeds business, PGW Seeds, to Danish company DLF Seeds for NZD $421 million. PGG Wrightson Seeds Holdings has operations in New Zealand, Australia, and South America. Under the deal PGW and PGW Seeds entered into a long-term distribution agreement for seed and grain. PGW granted a brand licence to PGW Seeds for the continued use of the PGG Wrightson Seeds brand.