Briefcase: Business snippets from around SA

In this week’s briefcase, Amazon Australia opens a new Adelaide distribution centre, local distillers win big at the Tasting Australia Spirit Awards and fashion retailer Peter Shearer prepares to open its fourth SA store.

KI aquaculture expansion back on after timber port rejection

Seafood company Yumbah Aquaculture is pushing ahead with a multi-million dollar expansion plan at its Kangaroo Island abalone farm in the wake of a State Government decision to reject a timber port planned next door to its Smith Bay site.

Cameron's of Tasmania general manager Ben Cameron.

Yumbah adds Tassie oysters to growing shellfish portfolio

Adelaide-based Yumbah Aquaculture has bought Tasmanian oyster farming business Cameron of Tasmania as it positions itself to become one of Australia’s largest shellfish producers.

Kangaroo Island neighbours still divided over proposed sea port

A Kangaroo Island abalone farm has announced a million-dollar upgrade on the basis that a proposed timber export seaport 200 hundred metres away has been scrapped – despite the timber company saying its planning for the port was very much “still on track”.

Senior scientists at odds over "threat” to KI abalone farm

Two internationally recognised maritime scientists are at odds over the impact of a proposed export wharf on a nearby Kangaroo Island abalone farm.

Expert report warns of “overwhelming threat” to KI abalone farm

A deep-sea timber port planned for Smith Bay on Kangaroo Island’s northern coast would likely kill a nearby abalone farm’s entire stock and ruin its business, a marine biologist says.