Australia Food and Grocery Council

The food and grocery manufacturing sector pays wages and salaries of $13.56 billion.
The industry’s workforce accounts for about 3 per cent of the population.
The food and grocery manufacturing industry consists of 30,104 businesses.
The industry provides around 24 million nutritious, affordable meals to Australians every day.
312,000 Australians are employed in the food, beverage and manufacturing industries, including half in rural and regional areas.
Australia’s $108 billion food and grocery manufacturing industry is the nation’s largest manufacturing sector.
Industry spends on average 0.5 per cent of turn-over on R&D – about $368 million a year.

Media Centre

Welcome to AFGC's Media Centre.

Designed for print, broadcast and online journalists, this up-to-date resource centre features the latest information about announcements, news and issues in Australia’s $108 billion food and grocery manufacturing sector.

AFGC offers breaking news, media releases, speeches, photographs, reports, publications and industry fact-sheets. All these details are available to journalists and media professionals in Australia and overseas.

Media Contacts
All media inquiries and interview requests are to be directed to AFGC's Corporate Affairs:

Phone: +61 02 6273 1466
Mobile: +61 0437 379 818

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Media releases and archive
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