pastoral company pty ltd type private industry agriculture founded 1877 founder see text headquarters brisbane queensland australia key people nigel alexander ceo products beef cattle number of employees 180 website http www.napco.com.au the north australian pastoral company napco is a large privately owned australian cattle company which operates 13 cattle stations as well as the wainui farm and feedlot covering over 60 000 km2 managing about 200 000 cattle in the northern territory and queensland . it produces beef cattle which are grass fed and grain finished before sale to australian meat processors who onsell beef to domestic and international customers . 1 history edit the napco partnership was formed in 1877 by queenslanders william collins william forrest and sir thomas mcilwraith with englishmen john warner and sir william ingram . the first station acquired was alexandria downs in the northern territory . 1 monkira and coorabulka were acquired in 1939 as part of their plan to breed cattle at alexandria and then fatten and sell from the channel country . 2 in 1968 the company acquired glenormiston along with the adjoining property marion downs at about the same time . properties edit alexandria downs nt boomarra qld coolullah qld coorabulka qld cungelella qld dagworth qld glenormiston qld goldsborough qld gordon downs qld kynuna station qld landsborough qld marion downs qld mittiebah nt monkira qld wainui feedlot and farm qld references edit a b the north australian pastoral company pty ltd . napco . retrieved 2011 10 10 . napco our history . north australian pastoral company . 2012 . retrieved 28 april 2013 . this article about an australian corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title north australian pastoral company & oldid 553971322 categories agriculture companies of australia1877 establishments in australiaaustralian company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 may 2013 at 15 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view