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BAKERY BUSINESS
Pulling back the baking curtain
Arnott’s supply chain director Tim Morgan recently took Food & Drink Business editor Kim Berry on a behind the scenes tour of Arnott’s Huntingwood bakery in Western Sydney. In what she has repeatedly called the best day of her life, Kim asked Tim some hard hitting questions about the baking of biscuits.
ARNOTT’S has been baking biscuits in Australia since the 1860s, with the Milk Arrowroot launched in 1882. The SAO arrived in 1906, followed by the Shortbread Cream in 1908, and the Tiny Teddy was launched in 1990 to celebrate Arnott’s’
125th anniversary.
Today, Australians consume
more than 500 million packs of Arnott’s biscuits every year, and our neighbours over the ditch in New Zealand do their bit by consuming 45 million.
The opportunity to go behind the scenes and witness some of our most loved biscuit being made – Double Coat Tim Tams were on the line during my visit – was indeed one of the best days of my life.
QTim, how many biscuits are made here?
Our Huntingwood factory has five lines, and over the course of 12 months we will make more than 54 million kilos of biscuits at the site.
We have three factories, Huntingwood, one in Brisbane, Queensland, and one in Adelaide, South Australia;
99 per cent of our biscuits are made in Australia.
We go through 200 tonnes of flour a day at Huntingwood, working closely with our growers to ensure the blend is right so we can produce the high-quality products we have for generations.
Q
Over the years we have become very defined in where we make our products. At our Adelaide facility we make the liquid chocolate used for all our products. Wagon Wheels, Iced Vovos, and Choc Royals, they are all made in Adelaide.
Here in Huntingwood, we make what we call our big runners: Jatz, Shapes, Salada, Milk Arrowroot, Scotch Finger, and of course Tim Tams.
In Brisbane there are
11 production lines making a
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Which biscuits get made at
what factory?
