Baxters Food Group to manufacture in Australia
Baxters Food Group, the UK soup maker, is planning to use Australia as a manufacturing base for its chutneys business to push the products into new markets in Asia.
The company, which snapped up Australian vegetables-to-pesto firm Sole Mio last year, wants to use its production facility in the market to launch its “side-of-plate” products in the country – and further afield in the region.
Baxters has launched a series of products, including chutneys and relishes, in the UK over the last three years and is eyeing markets overseas.
A spokesman for Baxters hinted at new markets in Asia the company could target. “Manufacturing in Australia could open up new markets like Singapore and India,” he told just-food.
Baxters is also lining up a further acquisition in Australia, which the spokesman said the company hoped to complete “in the near future”.
The spokesman, however, declined to comment on the timetable for a deal or what type of business Baxters has in its sights.
This week, Baxters reported a recovery in its bottom line in the company’s most recent financial year.
In its latest filing at Companies House, Baxters booked net profit of GBP1.5m (US$2.4m) for the 12 months to 30 May last year – against a net loss of GBP1.7m a year earlier.
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Your redcurrant jelly is the best, we use it with turkey, chicken, lamb and in sauces and your jars very attractive – HOWEVER – your labels are very difficult to remove – how many other people use Masterchef foods because their labels come off better – we should all recycle.
As part of my healthy eating plan, I am diabetic, I ate Baxters ‘Healthy Lentil and Vegetable’ soup every day. But I have been unable to find it in any shop in Glasgow. Have you stopped making it?
Yours sincerely,
Robert Jones
Flat 15/2
Simpson Heights
48 Drygate
Glasgow
G4 0XX
Baxter’s made in the UK is great but I doubt Australia can come up to that standard. I have a favourite Baxter’s. Their Spanish Tomato and Black Olive Chutney was the best….. Can no longer get it at my supermarket and doubt if it will be made here. If it is how will it taste?……………..or will it?
Disappointed that I can’t find Baxter’s Spanish Tomato and Black Olive in the supermarkets. My parents got it in a Christmas hamper last year, and the whole family loved it, even me and I don’t generally like chutney. We went looking for it at the supermarkets since and have been unsuccessful. We even went so far as to look at every Christmas hamper we came across. If it’s possible, I’d really like to see this product on the market again.
I love their vegetable soup, but where can i buy in Australia, im in Sydney.
I tried Baxters Albert’s Victorian Chutney recently while holidaying in the UK and absolutely loved it. I tried to bring two jars home to Australia, but it was confiscated at Gatwick Airport as they said that it was classed as a liquid and was over 100ml. I am trying to find out if I can buy it anywhere in Australia, I am in Adelaide. I had put it in my cabin luggage ready to declare it at Adelaide Airport without opening up my big case, but I should have put it in there and perhaps I would have been able to keep it. I never thought for one minute that it would be classed as a liquid.