November 2, 2009 – 10:21 am
With summer approaching, the sounds of lawn mowers, backyard cricket and sizzling barbeques is music to my ears. I went to two barbeques on the weekend and I was amazed at the sophistication of the contemporary Australian cook up.
Back when I was growing up in the 70’s Dad’s idea of a BBQ was a fire [...]
October 16, 2009 – 3:06 pm
Great news! The Beerenberg Huey range of four products that I talked about a month or two ago are going into Coles Nationally around Australia. The four products are already on Coles supermarket shelves from Broome to Hobart!
Speaking of Huey, today was an interesting day. Iain “Huey” Hewiston came in for the day and did [...]
August 21, 2009 – 10:59 am
Our new jar has attracted a great deal of attention, mostly good but a few bad.
The main reason we decided to go to the taller, skinnier jar was because we wanted a jar which looked good on the shelf against the imported jams. They are our main competition and are market leaders nationally in Australia. [...]
Finding Beerenberg products near your house has been made easier with our new improved “where to buy” function. We have always had it on our site, but we have tweaked it under the hood recently.
This is always been popular part of our site as we are sometimes hard to find, particularly in the Eastern states.
There [...]
March 19, 2009 – 11:19 pm
A few people have complained that our new tall jars don’t fit in their fridge.
As this is something which can cause considerable angst, I thought I would try to explain.
I have to tell you a bit of a story. For years we used a fairly squat 250ml jar for all our jams and condiments. This [...]
November 19, 2008 – 1:55 am
The latest on our packaging and kitchen upgrades …
Improvements to our packaging machines have just been completed and we’re now in the process of getting it running smoothly.
To better meet the requirements of our customers, we have reduced our carton sizes to eight units for most products. This allows easier handling and less stock holding [...]