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In our latest podcast, Tony Pititto, National Head of Agribusiness, Food & Beverage at Grant Thornton and Madina Aziz, Audit Partner discuss the opportunities for the sector through the Modern Manufacturing Initiative and what we need next from Government to help Australia target non-traditional export markets.

Australia produces a lot of food. We are a unique market in that we cannot consume everything that we produce – we must export.

Agribusiness, Food & Beverage Dealtracker

For clubs, mandatory shutdowns due to COVID-19 have been particularly devastating and JobKeeper has been a welcome lifeline to help keep employees on the books.

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Australia’s Agribusiness, Food & Beverage industry to varying levels depending on where industry participants sit in supply chains and their level of exposure to impacted domestic and international markets.

Recently, we teamed up with Grain Trade Australia and HFW to take a look at the challenges and opportunities unique to the grains industry and agri broadly, through a series of webinars.

It’s been a rough start to the year for our farmers and major food producers – with a drought, bushfires, an ongoing water crisis and now COVID-19 which has not only impacted on exports, but also shut down restaurants and cafes.

The GST treatment of food products has made the headlines over the last few months. Most notably the above front page of The Age earlier this year.

Endeavour Brewing Co. is an independent Australian micro-brewery working directly with the best local hop and barley farmers.

Welcome to the 2019 edition of Bite Size Dealtracker Update which focuses on M&A and IPO activity in the Agribusiness, Food & Beverage industry in calendar year 2018. Our previous Bite Size Dealtrackers covered the 7 year period from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2017 (Long Term Period).

Australia has a reputation for quality produce and products, so much so that our neighbours in Asia will pay a premium for the “Made in Australia” label.

Every year, we spend time interviewing our clients to better understand their business and the trends most impacting on them.