a2 Milk Company (ASX:A2M, NZE:ATM) expanded its long-term strategic cooperation arrangements with China State Farm Agribusiness Holding Shanghai to include English-label infant milk formula products in the cross-border eCommerce channel, according to bourse filings with both the Australian and New Zealand bourses.
The arrangement will initially begin with a2 Genesis from early 2026, with the intention to further expand the scope of the arrangements to include other English-label infant milk formula products later on.
China State Farm Agribusiness, a wholly-owned unit of China National Agriculture Development Group, has been the firm's strategic distribution partner in China since 2013, and is the exclusive import agent and master distributor for its China-label products.
Its shares rose nearly 2% in recent trading on both the Australian and New Zealand bourses on Monday.