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AUSTRALIA’S TOP 100 FOOD & DRINK COMPANIES 2021
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ABBREVIATIONS O Overseas
26 UNILEVER REV UP/DOWN
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NL Non-listed
P Publicly listed
1561
Pty Proprietary/private C Co-operative ▼ Sales down ▲ Sales up
30 NHFOODSAUSTRALIA REV UP/DOWN
▼ 1010
NH Foods Australia (NHA) Pty Ltd is a foreign-owned private company, deriving revenue from the operation of abattoirs and beef cattle feed lots, and wholesale meat and meat by-products. It operates three large beef export processing facilities – Oakey Beef Exports, Wingham Beef Exports and Thomas Borthwick & Sons. The company employs around 1600 people, operates in Australia, and is administered from its head office in North Sydney. NHA’s ultimate parent company is NH Foods Ltd, a Japanese food processing firm.
TYPE
REV $M
PERIOD
PREVIOUS REV $M
TYPE
REV $M
PERIOD
PREVIOUS REV $M
O Pty
1156
12/20
O Pty
823
03/21
Unilever Australia Group Pty Ltd is a foreign-owned proprietary company that derives revenue from the manufacture and sale of home care, personal care, and food products. Brands include Ben & Jerry’s, Bushells, Continental, Lipton and Streets. In May, Unilever Australia was announced as a founding member of the ANZPAC Plastics Pact, a coalition tasked with creating a circular economy for plastics. The company has approximately 1700 employees and operates throughout Australia from its headquarters in Sydney, New South Wales. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Unilever PLC, a UK-based food, home and personal care manufacturer.
27 SUNRICE REV UP/DOWN
▼ 1195
Ricegrowers Limited, trading as SunRice, is a publicly listed company that derives its revenue from milling, storing,
31 MCCAINFOODS REV UP/DOWN
McCain Foods (Aust) Pty Ltd is a foreign-owned private company, deriving revenue from the manufacture and sale of frozen food
products. In June, McCain completed a
N/A
TYPE
REV $M
PERIOD
PREVIOUS REV $M
O Pty
818
06/19
TYPE
REV $M
PERIOD
PREVIOUS REV $M
P
1135
04/20
marketing and distributing rice and rice-based products, as well as the provision of other grocery products. The company employs
approximately 2000 staff and has operations
the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and the US. Ricegrowers is headquartered in Leeton, New South Wales and is listed on the ASX under the
code SGL. Sunrice produces 98 per cent of Australia’s domestic rice products.
28 QUEENSLANDSUGAR REV UP/DOWN
▼ 915
in
$1.8 million tech upgrade at its Smithton
factory in Tasmania. In August it sold the
ANZ operations of Sara Lea to New Zealand
private equity firm South Island Office. In
October, it was one of the founding
signatories to the inaugural Australian Food
Pact, to drive food waste reduction in
Australia. The company employs approximately
1190 people, operates in Australia, Taiwan and
New Zealand, and is administered from its head office in Wendouree, Victoria. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian-based McCain Foods Ltd, a frozen food manufacturer.
32 ARNOTT’S REV UP/DOWN
N/A
Arnott’s Biscuits Holdings Pty Ltd is a foreign-owned private company, deriving revenue from the manufacture and distribution of biscuits, soup, stock and vegetable juices. This year it announced a new snacks and cereals business
unit, Good Food Partners. After buying Freedom Foods Group’s cereals and snacks business for $20 million at
theendof2020,Arnott’sacquiredtwomore businesses in the sector in 2021; a 75 per cent stake in Diver Foods and New Zealand premium
cracker company 180degrees. Arnott’s Biscuits Holdings Pty Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary
of its Singapore-based Asia Snacking Pte Ltd. The company employs approximately
3500 people, operates in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong, and is administered from its head
office in Sydney, New South Wales.
TYPE
REV $M
PERIOD
PREVIOUS REV $M
P
902
06/21
Queensland Sugar Limited is an Australian-owned, unlisted public company that derives the majority of its revenue from the distribution of raw sugar for export and the management of six bulk sugar terminals located in Queensland. The company employs approximately 155 full-time equivalent staff and is administered from its head office in Brisbane, Queensland.
TYPE
REV $M
PERIOD
PREVIOUS REV $M
O Pty
801
08/20
29 KRAFTHEINZ REV UP/DOWN
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848
TYPE
REV $M
PERIOD
PREVIOUS REV $M
O Pty
893
12/20
Kraft Heinz is a foreign-owned private company that generates the majority of its revenue from food processing and marketing branded grocery products. Its brand portfolio includes Kraft, Heinz, Golden Circle, Fountain, Gravox, and Saxa. The company employs approximately 875 people and is administered from its head office in Melbourne, Victoria. Its parent is the US-based food company Kraft Heinz Foods Company.
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