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AIFST Cook Chill for Food Service and Manufacturing Breakfast Meeting - 15 October, Perth |
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The AIFST is hosting a breakfast seminar on Friday October 15th at Fraser’s Restaurant, Kings Park from 7am until 8.45am.
Cook chill provides an opportunity for the food industry to service the requirements of its markets efficiently, with value and quality and most importantly with safety. Irrespective of whether the food is destined for the retail market or food service markets including restaurants and cafes, the aim of the seminar is to help food businesses produce and deliver safe and high quality foods to the end user.
Guest Speakers include Marcel Bauer, co-author of the book “Cook chill for foodservice and manufacturing: Guidelines for safe production storage and distribution” (The AIFST Blue Book) and Cathy Tomlinson Walker, from Snap Fresh.
For more information and registration details click here.
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100 people attend FIA Business Sundowner on Food & Naked Branding | 2 September |
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The FIA Business Sundowner held on Thursday September 2nd attracted a record attendance of over 100 people from the WA food and beverage industry. The relaxed seminar on Food and Naked Branding; Creating, Building, and Protecting Brands, offered guests the opportunity to sample fantastic food, wine and beer at the University Club of Western Australia, while networking with industry colleagues and our guest speakers, Mr. Howard Cearns, Director Braincells and Little Creatures Brewing and Mr. Tony Joyner, Partner & Senior Commercial Lawyer, Freehills Law Firm. .jpg) Howard Cearns, Founder and Chairman of brainCELLS Creative Marketing and founder of Little Creatures Brewing, gave a fascinating insight into driving brand awareness, market research, targeting customer market segments, customer loyalty, generating sales and the investment in developing and managing brand strategies. His presentation showed practical and tangible aspects of brand development and strategy, to channel planning, across all aspects of design and creative concept development, the execution and implementation of branding and how and why its adds value to a business. Tony Joyner, Senior Commercial Lawyer and Partner of national law firm Freehills looked at some of WA's great brands and provided an intriguing presentation into the world of Intellectual Property covering a wide range on commercial IP transactions, including IP protection, licensing and IP transfer transactions, and IP strategy and management. Tony’s branding team at Freehills recently reviewed the brand management of WA’s top 100 companies, with astounding and somewhat troubling results, which Tony demonstrated in his presentation and illustrated his findings with some entertaining stories from around the world of ‘branding gone wrong’. The FIA would like to thank all who attended and hope that you found the sundowner interesting and beneficial. Our next Business Sundowner is scheduled for November. Details coming soon. We hope to see you there again!
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BWEB Phase 2 Marketing Campaign & Transfer to Industry Workshop - Friday 10 September |
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Buy West Eat Best Phase 2 Marketing Campaign & Transfer to Industry Update Workshop Friday 10 September 9am – 12noon Department of Agriculture & Food Theatrette, South Perth The goal of the workshop is to identify the individual needs, goals and expectations of Buy West Eat Best members of a Phase 2 Marketing Campaign. Guest presenters include our, 303, who will provide a brief overview of Phase 1 and pitch creative ideas for Phase 2 across various medium, including TV, press and in store initiatives. Kristen Watts, editor of the very innovative, creative and flavoursome Buy West Eat Best Cookbook will join us to talk about the launch of the cookbook. Get an update from Stuart Clarke on the transfer to industry progress being made by the working group. For more information, please click here to view information flyer. |
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Fine Foods & Hospitality Exhibition Melbourne | 13-16 September |
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Fresh from the WestWA Pavilion at Melbourne Fine Food & Hospitality Exhibition13-16 September 2010 | Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre__________ Fresh from the West Exhbitors Abba Olive Oil
The Abba Olive Oil Company is a private entity, located in the world famous Margaret River Region. The mild maritime Mediterranean climate with prolonged ripening period and the deep red, well drained, loamy sands and sandy loamy soils of the Abba soil system has generated consistent award winning Extra Virgin Olive Oils for the
O Fé brand. | Accuweigh
Accuweigh is Australia’s leader in weighing technology, providing a complete range of products and services in the weighing, filling, packaging and inspection industries. Accuweigh has eight branches, covering all mainland states and providing complete after sales service and support on all its products. | Anchor Foods
Anchor Foods is a first-class supplier of quality grocery foods across Australia. Anchor Foods produces dry packet mixes, vinegar, cordial, herbs and spices to the WA and national market and works in partnership with all supply chain partners, identifying the best purpose wheat types, milling quality, innovative packaging, design and marketing. | Cell Aqua Foods
Cell Aqua Foods is a leading West Australian food processor and seafood specialist. The company’s modern HACCP accredited facilities offer an extensive range of innovative, quality food products, including value-added seafood products, smoked condiments, desserts, dairy and a specialist antipasto range – marketed under the Eco-Star™ and Providores kitchen brands. | New Norcia Bakeries
New Norcia Bakeries is a private company which operates under an agreement with the Benedictine Community of New Norcia, 133km north-east of Perth, WA. New Norcia Bakeries aims to bake the world’s finest breads. At Fine Food Melbourne, the company is promoting some of its world-class products: New Norcia Nut Cake, Dom Salvado Pan Chocolatti and New Norcia Wood-fired Almond Biscotti. | Rubra Coffee Merchants
Rubra Coffee sources only the finest coffee beans from some of the most exotically beautiful coffee Estates in the world including Costa Rica, Guatemala, Brazil, New Guinea, Columbia, India and Kenya. Rubra’s philosophy is to cater for everyone’s differing tastes and expectations. Rubra has also developed a wide range of teas, from Earl Grey Premium to Chai Bangali. | Turkish Bakeries
Turkish Bakeries is a family run bakery based in Perth, WA. What originally started as just Turkish breads quickly grew into a successful and busy bakery, now supplying a wide variety of products to both the hospitality and retail trade. Turkish Bakeries strive for excellence in their products and services. | Whittingtons Australia
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Whittingtons Australia is an Australian owned company, supplying customers with one of the broadest ranges of herbs, spices, essences, essential oils, traditional herbs and mustards, adding value to food preparation. Whittingtons will offer Australian Wide Specials for orders placed at the show. |
The FIA in conjunction with DAFWA have organised the WA Fresh from the West Pavilion to offering all West Australian Food and Beverage companies the chance to have their products exposed and recognised at the major event for food businesses to actively pursue new sales and generate strong leads.
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