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PATAZA Pty Ltd’s Success at the 6th Annual CIIE Tradeshow: A Delectable Showcase of Australian Delicacies by leading Australian Exporter

PATAZA Pty Ltd, an experienced Australian Food & Wine exporter, recently made waves at the 6th annual China International Import Expo (CIIE) tradeshow. With a commitment to delivering premium Australian products to the global market, PATAZA showcased an impressive array of offerings, including their own range of Macadamia Nuts under the Australis Food Group brand and a delightful selection of  Australian confectionery and food products from famous brands and local manufacturers.

September has been an exceptionally hectic month, with lots of activities, meetings and attending the annual Fine Food Show in Sydney.  Capping off a great month, we also have the honour our being announced as a finalist in the NSW Premiers Export Awards!

OK, lets unpack a massive month:

Fine Food Show happened in beautiful Sydney from 11 – 14 September 2023 at the ICC in Darling Harbour. This is arguably Australia’s premier FMCG tradeshow, happening every year rotating between Sydney and Melbourne. The tradeshow had exhibitors from Australia as well as countries including Korea, China, USA, Thailand,, India, Italy and more. One thing that we noticed was the absence of the major FMCG companies from exhibiting. This is not a new trend as the multinational companies don’t see value in exhibiting, we hope that this changes as it would be great to see the show with these companies.

PATAZA Pty Ltd – Celebrating Excellence in Food and Wine Exports at the Western Sydney Awards for Business Excellence

Metcash Expo 2023

We had the pleasure of attending the Metcash Expo 2023 on the Gold Coast in Queensland. This is an annual event for Metcash customers in Australia (IGA, Foodworx, Drakes Foodland) as well as international visitors from the Asia Pacific region. One of the advantages of the Metcash Expo is that all of the major manufacturers exhibit as part of their Trading Terms with Metcash.

We had the pleasure of attending Thaifex Anuga in wonderful Bangkok Thailand from 23^rd May to 27^th May 2023.. What an amazing event, with over 78,000 visitors attending over 5 days and 3000 exhibitors from over 45 countries represented.

After 18 months of being Out of Stock, supply of Mars Pods 160g x 15, Snickers Pods 160g x 15 and Twix Pods 160g x 15 are again available for Export. Pods are a favourite product in Australia, and we have had plenty of enquiries and sales since they returned to sale. Mars are not promoting Pods in any sales channel as they are in high demand, but we are now able to supply, and we welcome your enquiries.

Following on from this positive news, we have just been advised that Mars are having a price increase on all of their products on 3/7/23. We are able to take orders up to this date at current pricing, after 3^rd July 2023 prices will increase significantly, so we are encouraging our customers to buy up on all Mars products before this date. All Mars products will increase by 8-10 % except for Buckets (including Maltesers Buckets and M&M Buckets which will increase by 15%.

They say “Time Flies when you’re having fun” and its hard to believe we are fast approaching the end oof Q1 2023. A quarter of this calendar has nearly passed, and we have been very busy processing and shipping orders as well as working with our supply partners to find savings that we can pass on, or reduce the impact of price increases, which are still occurring.

We are taking orders now for Summertime lines, and we are shipping Bundaberg Ginger Beer and Bundaberg Brewed Drinks at prices, contact us for information on current deals for Bundaberg. Also we are now exporting Nippys flavoured milk (we have a Dairy Export Licence). We also are exporting an Australian Made Fruit Drink – Fruity Burst in a 250ml pop top and cool packaging with Thomas the Tank Engine, Barbie and more.

Dear valued customer,

Welcome to 2023! We would like to wish all of our customers a prosperous and healthy Western and Lunar New Year!

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As the world continues to recover from COVID, there are still many challenges facing the FMCG industry that are likely to continue into this year. We see the following headwinds:

• Inflation and Price Increases – currently Australian inflation is said to be 7%, we find this unusual, based on the frequency and size of price increases that are occurring in food that have been well above 7% average. Potato Chips have risen by 40% in the past 12 months – driven by the Ukraine war (both manufacturers predominately used Oil from there) as well as the Potato shortage caused by a long period of rain and flooding. 
• Sea Freight and Air Freight prices – our best hope is that freight increases will slow down. Patricks in Australia have just announced an increase in Port Charges of $150 per TFE and this absorbs a $50 TFE drop in Sea Freight rates (HK) for Q1 and other destinations have increased. We hope that Air Freight will reduce in price as more planes start to fly.  
• Economic Challenges caused by interest rate increases – we are now seeing a decline in domestic demand for food and wine, as people are feeling the effects of interest rate increases and we expect that all of the markets that we service will be in the same position.

Despite the challenges, Pataza Pty Ltd will continue to look for savings and better deals so that we can limit the impact on our customers. 
 
Kind Regards,
The Pataza Team

Australia has a reputation for producing and supplying quality Food and Wine and this is well deserved as we have the highest quality production standards and the best growing conditions and practices. At PATAZA, we have focused mainly on markets in Asia, and we are pleased to announce that we are now exporting Australian Food and Wine to European and North American markets.

With the current position on Logistics as a result of the COVID pandemic and now the current war in Europe, we have seen a large increase in enquiries from Europe and also other markets in Asia due to supply issues they are experiencing buying from the United Kingdom and Europe. We have also noticed and increase in interest in Australian Oats, Vegetable Oils and Legumes, again due to increases in demand and limits in supply. This is also causing issues in Australia as manufacturers and suppliers are experiencing significant increases in costs, driven by increases in fuel (+15% vs SPLY) and increases in raw materials.

We have experience sourcing and shipping to the European Union, and we currently ship to France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Benelux as well as the UK across all categories including Confectionery, Wine, General Grocery, Drinks and Snacks and food staples such as Oats, Legumes, Vegetable Oils. Australia has also announced a new FTA agreement with the UK, reducing import taxes and duties.

PATAZA Pty Ltd was very pleased to attend the C&I Expo in Melbourne Australia on 30th and 31st March 2022. The Food and Wine industry has been challenged over the past 2 years of Coronavirus and it was fantastic to see people attending a non-virtual tradeshow, and whilst attendance of visitors and exhibitors was no doubt impacted, there were still quite a lot of visitors and high-quality products and categories on display.

Convenience & Impulse Retailing (https://www.c-store.com.au/) is a Champion for the C-Store and FMCG industry in Australia. We have had a long and close relationship with this magazine and now digital company, starting many years ago with Keith Berg, and today with Safa de Valois at the helm, and it was great to see Safa and his team at the event and the way the event was presented is a testament to their passion for the industry.

From a Products perspective, there were around 100 exhibitors at the event, ranging from multinational suppliers such as Nestle, Coca Cola and Asahi Beverages down to smaller suppliers just launching new products to the market. As well, there were several Merchandise, Software and Retail Hardware exhibitors.

Products that we found particularly interesting were the following:

1. Love Buds  Plant Based products. This exhibitor also wone our internal vote for Best Stand at the show. We have tried many Meat replacements and have found them to be quite tasteless or wrong texture. Love Buds products, however, taste good – we tried the Hamburgers and the Sausages, and the taste was very close to real meat products. We have already recommended this product to some of our customers in Asia and they want to try this.