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.
AFGC is the leading national organisation representing Australia’s $108 billion food, drink and grocery manufacturing industry.Join AFGCThe industry employs more than 312000 people across Australia including half in rural and regional areas.
The Packaging Stewardship Forum (PSF) of the AFGC was established in 2006. We work with partners across Australia to deliver voluntary industry recycling, litter reduction and education programs on behalf of our members, Australia’s largest beverage companies and their packaging suppliers.
Our programs target Australia's major away from home venues, places where large numbers of people gather and consume beverage packaging that can readily be recycled. New installations are now reaching more than 1 billion away from home visits annually. Through these partnerships we are making it just as easy for people to recycle when they're away from home as it is when they're at home.
To find out more about our commitment to voluntary beverage packaging product stewardship and our program activities see:
