Business categories in Wodonga, VIC
Welcome to Wodonga, VIC
Wodonga is a city on the Victoria/New South Wales border, 300 kilometres north-east of Melbourne.
Wodonga was founded as a customs post with its twin city Albury on the other side of the Murray River. The town grew subsequent to the opening of the first bridge across the Murray in 1860. It was named after the Wodonga pastoral run, taken up by Paul Huon in 1836. The formation of other townships along the Sydney road in the next few years marked the road as the main inter-colonial truck route. Wodonga has a racecourse, recreation reserve and showgrounds, a large livestock saleyards, several parks along watercourses, sports ovals, a golf course, an indoor sports and leisure centre and a wide range of other community services.
Major secondary industries based in Wodonga include a logistics distributions hub, a large cattle market, a pet food factory, two packaging factories, a hydraulic hose manufacturer, an abattoir and a foundry as well as a variety of other smaller enterprises. It also serves as a central point for the delivery of government services to the surrounding region.
