After a longstanding successful business of 47 years, Tony Madden has decided to call it a day and retire.
He founded Madden’s Refrigerated Transport in 1974, as a general freight company operating out of Goulburn.
Early into the business, he landed an account with Tancred’s Meat Company and began delivering meat into Canberra and the surrounding regions.
In 1980 Tancred Meats purchased the Harden Abattoirs in the South West Slopes region of NSW. They approached Madden to move his business to Harden and after some consideration, the decision was made to move.
Harden not only had its own abattoir but provided a central location to both the abattoir at Cootamundra and the abattoir at Young.
It also provided close proximity to Young, Kingsvale and Wombat and was ideally situated for transportation to both Sydney and Melbourne.
Proud of the reputation of the growing business, it was decided to change the company name to Maddens Refrigerated Transport.
Coles approached Madden in 1985 as they wanted a specialised refrigerated transport provider to cart chilled meat direct from the local abattoirs to the supermarkets.
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