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Value-adding native foods, such as Kakadu Plums and Mountain Pepper Leaf, has resulted in Robins Foods being selected for the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) Value-Adding Award at the recent 2003 Rabobank Agribusiness Awards for Excellence.
Based in Melbourne, Robins Foods takes the unique flavours of Australian native foods and combines them with the best ingredients and techniques of Europe and Asia to create quintessential Australian food products.
Over the past two years Robins Foods has developed a native food supply chain to ensure that increasing demand for native foods can be met in an environmentally sustainable manner and that all “members” of the supply chain benefit from chain development. A prime focus of Robins supply chain is the formal inclusion of Aboriginal people within it and the creation of a new company - “Indigenous Australian Foods Ltd”. IAF is a not-for-profit company with 20 equal memberships available to Aboriginal-owned and controlled entities. IAF is designed to offer its Aboriginal membership a commercial entry point into the native foods industry within a culturally appropriate context.
Foods are sourced from the extremes of arid desert, lush tropical rainforests and alpine high country, with products created from Bush Tomatoes, Lemon Aspen Berries, Wattleseed, Wild Rosella Flowers, Kakadu Plums, Wild Limes and other native foods.
Robins Foods produces a high-quality, accessibly priced range of native food products, including prepared sauces, chutneys, dressings, jams and herbs. The company’s flagship brand – “Outback Spirit” is available nationally in all Coles Supermarkets.
Other ranges, including Robins Bush Foods and Hot Oz, are available in major food halls and specialty delicatessens. The company currently exports to giant UK retailer Sainsbury's (approx 250 stores) and are currently developing market entry into other European markets including France, Germany and Ireland. Robins Foods also exports to the Middle East, Singapore and Chile.
Finalists in the RIRDC Value-Adding Award
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Media inquiries (feel free to contact finalists)
RIRDC Martin Field (02) 6272 4735 or 0418 430 760
 
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