Grape House Group’s collapse follows related company’s substantial losses and conviction for breaching export regulations
Australian table grape producer and exporter The Grape House Group has entered liquidation with reported debts of A$43.6mn, according to Australian media reports.
The business, based near the Murray River in Euston, New South Wales, has been owned by the Costa family for two generations and specialises in growing, packing and exporting table grapes to international markets.
According to Inside FMCG, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission published a liquidation notice covering The Grape House Group and other associated companies.
Company members reportedly voted in favour of liquidation on 2 October, with Hamish MacKinnon and Nicholas Giasoumi appointed joint liquidators.
The liquidation comes just over a year after a separate company operating under the Grape House name was fined A$1.05mn for breaching Australian export regulations.
In August 2025, The Grape House Pty Ltd pleaded guilty to six counts of making false representations with the intention of dishonestly influencing a Commonwealth official.
The New South Wales District Court took a further 23 related offences into account when imposing the fine.
The Grape House Pty Ltd, which was renamed NVNG Holdings Pty Ltd in July 2026, is a separately registered legal entity from The Grape House Group Pty Ltd.
However, the two companies were linked in several outlets’ reporting on this week’s liquidation.
According to Australia’s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, the offences involved false or misleading documentation submitted to obtain phytosanitary certification and permits for table grapes exported to New Zealand during the 2017 and 2018 seasons.
The company had incorrectly declared that the grapes originated from an area free of fruit fly and therefore did not require cold-storage treatment, it said.
“The grapes were in fact not from a pest-free area and were exported without the required treatment,” the department stated.
Separately, Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported that the Grape House business had suffered substantial financial losses after its crops were damaged in 2023.
