Brett Blundy expands Northern Territory cattle station holdings

The bulky goods entrepreneur Brett Blundy has expanded his beef operations buying another cattle station in the Northern Territory.

The $6.5 million acquisition of Amungee Mungee Station near Katherine will increase the herd capacity to 150,000.

BBRC diversified into beef in 2010 with a stake in Barkly Pastoral Company.

Until the latest purchase it had 85,000 head of cattle at three other beef stations in the Northern Territory's Barkly Tableland. 

BBRC exports most of its live cattle to Indonesia with some to Vietnam, a BBRC spokesman told Fairfax Media.

BBRC has bought Amungee Mungee in partnership with Bullwaddy, which has a minority stake in the station. Bullwaddy owners Adrian and Emma Brown will oversee the daily operations at the 316,900-hectare station.

BBRC now have an interest in 1.4 million hectares.

The Beef Central website recently wrote that Amungee Mungee's new owners planned to increase the number of watering points from 20 to 160 over the next three years.

Located east of Daly Waters, Amungee Mungee was recently sold bare of stock by the Zlotowski family.

The Browns are also owners of Katherine-based business Northern Stock Water, which is the only manufacturer of polyethylene (PE) pipe products in the Northern Territory.