Wilson Hellaby is a family-owned meat company with a history back to 1873, when the Hellaby family opened its first butchery on Shortland Street in Auckland. The company is owned by the Syminton and Hellaby families. It sources prime beef, lamb and pork from family farmers across New Zealand, and works with food safety inspectors and independent vets. The company says it uses both hand cutting and modern processing, and supplies butcheries, supermarkets, restaurants and hotels. It also runs a foodservice division for hotels, restaurants, caterers and hospitals, and an export team. Its beef and lamb carry the Beef + Lamb NZ Quality Mark. The listing gives Portage Road in Penrose, and the website gives its gate 4 entrance on Portage Road, with a Mt Wellington address on Great South Road. The foodservice phone number is +64 9 571 3700.
Customers are mixed. One praises the quality of a Scotch fillet, with a good layer of fat that keeps the steak moist. Another says the meat and seafood are high quality at good prices. A third is disappointed: they say the corned beef looked thick and the pork sausages were too salty, and that the skins split when fried. The company itself says it tries to deliver export-quality beef and lamb to local butchers and restaurants.