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The Western Australian Government Government is helping WA agrifood and beverage businesses to capture export market opportunities at upcoming international trade events.
Interested business are encouraged to submit an expression of interest to participate in any of five key trade exhibitions to be held in Asia and the Middle East from February to July 2025.
Food, beverage, and hospitality events have proven to be a great avenue for WA businesses to showcase their products and establish trade relationships.
Schedule of events to July 2025
- Gulfood, Dubai (17-21 Feb 2025) + Qatar Mission (23-24 Feb 2025).
- FOODEX, Tokyo (11-14 Mar 2025).
- Food Hotel Asia, Singapore (8-11 April 2025) + Indonesia Trade Mission: Jakarta and Bali (13-17 April 2025).
- HOFEX, Hong Kong (14-16 May 2025).
- CP Group’s Global Sourcing Expo, Bangkok (early June 2025, date TBC)
A free online information session will be held on 19 November 2024 for interested parties to find out more about the process and how businesses have benefited from previous trade events.
89 WA businesses represented their brands at five international agrifood and beverage trade shows in 2023-24 at Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Singapore and Dubai. Previous participating businesses spanned honey, dairy, seafood, red meat, bakery, packaged foods and alcoholic beverages.
To lodge an expression of interest to participate in 2025 trade shows, please visit the webpage here.
To attend the free information session on 19 November, please click the link for registration.
For any questions please contact export@dpird.wa.gov.au
Source: WA Gov | Image: Foodex/ jma.or.jp
We’re excited to offer businesses a unique opportunity to attend the ESG Fundamentals Workshop, developed and presented by subject matter experts from Curtin University Business School. This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the core concepts of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), helping businesses identify relevant risks and opportunities, and equipping them with the tools to start reporting on ESG performance.
This full-day event is tailored to help Western Australia’s food and beverage businesses improve their ESG credentials and sustainability outcomes, enhancing their reputation and operations in today’s sustainability-driven market.
Workshop Details:
- Date: Thursday, 21 November 2024
- Time: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Location: FIPWA, 37 Dollyup Street, Stake Hill, WA 6181
- Cost: $30 per person
Registration Information: Secure your spot today! For just $30, you will gain access to a wealth of knowledge and invaluable networking opportunities.
Source and image: DPIRD
The Western Australian Government is helping an iconic WA business to soar, with a $1 million grant to support Mt Barker Chicken expand its operations and capture new market opportunities.
The Value Add Investment Grant (VAIG), matched by company owners the Milne AgriGroup, will assist the business to purchase processing equipment and expand processing capacity by 30 per cent, while improving water, energy and emissions efficiencies.
New state-of-the-art chillers will extend the shelf-life of products by more than 20 per cent, enabling the company to target markets in the eastern states and high-value export markets, including Singapore and Hong Kong.
This will also enable Mt Barker Chicken to supply the fast-food restaurant trade with high-welfare, high-quality product. The expansion will create 20 new jobs at its Kendenup and Rockingham facilities, supporting the local community.
Mt Barker Chicken is the first recipient to share in the latest round of WA Government's $6 million Value Add Investment Grants.
These substantial grants help WA agrifood and beverage businesses to invest in projects that increase production and growth to improve competitiveness, sustainability and diversification.
Since 2018, more than $152 million in private sector co-investment has been leveraged by $23.8 million-worth of Value Add Investment Grants, creating 1200 jobs across the State.
More successful applicants will be announced in coming weeks.
Source: WA Gov | Image: Mt Barker Chicken
In the 12 months ended September 2024, Australian wine exports increased by 34 per cent in value to $2.39 billion and by 7 per cent in volume to 643 million litres, according to Wine Australia’s Export Report released recently.
These are the highest levels of shipments by both volume and value since the 12 months ended August 2021, and the growth was driven by the re-entry of Australian wine exports to mainland China following the removal of import duties on Australian bottled wine in late March 2024.
The value of shipments to mainland China increased by $604 million to $612 million, while volume increased by 58 million litres to 59 million litres.
According to Trade Data Monitor, total wine exports of the world’s top 10 wine exporting countries dropped by 3 per cent in volume in the year ended June 2024, with Italy, Spain, France, South Africa, Germany, and New Zealand each reporting declines in wine exports.
The top five destinations by value were:
- Mainland China (up $604 million to $612 million)
- UK (up $9 million to $362 million)
- US (down $25 million to $341 million)
- Hong Kong (up $65 million to $270 million), and
- Canada (down $0.08 million to $147 million).
For more information, refer to Wine Australia’s Export Report and Wine Australia’s Export Dashboard.
Source and image: Wine Australia
According to Avocados Australia’s latest “Facts at a Glance 2023/24 Report”, total Australian avocado production volume is up 30% to 150,913 tonnes when compared with 2022/23’s figure of 115,385 tonnes. Funded by avocado grower levies through Hort Innovation, the report found that the gross value of production (GVP) for Australian avocados is up by 13% to $649 million when compared to $574 million in 2022/23. Export value is up 63% to $96.1 million. Avocados Australia continues to stay focussed on increasing demand in the domestic and export markets and opening up new export markets.
The report was produced by Avocados Australia’s “Avocado industry supply and trade data capture and analysis 2023-2028” project (AV22016), a Hort Innovation funded project delivering high quality industry data to the Australian avocado supply chain, to guide the industry and support businesses in their decision making.
The Facts at a Glance 2023/24 Report is available now on the Avocados Australia website.
Source and image: Avocados.gov.au
Australia’s investment in agricultural research and development has reached almost $3 billion in 2023-24, the latest ABARES release has shown.
This long-term commitment will lead to improvements in agricultural productivity, sustainability and modernisation.
The private sector accounts for the largest growth in investment in the sector, with a nearly 5% annual growth rate from 2005-06.
ABARES executive director, Dr Jared Greenville, said ABARES’s latest data, Agricultural research and development (R&D) investment in Australia – 2023-24 update, found total agricultural R&D funding was increasing steadily, largely from the private sector.
“Agricultural R&D investment is what underpins innovation in the sector, and the flow-on benefits for farmers are considerable,” said Dr Greenville.
“We know that every $1 invested in agricultural R&D, generates an almost $8 return for farmers over 10 years, which is a great incentive for the private sector to make these important investments.”
According to ABARES, total agricultural R&D funding has continued to increase gradually, from $2.91 billion in 2022-23 to $2.98 billion in 2023-24.
Source: Food& Beverage Magazine | Photo: Serhii/stock.adobe.com
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