Australia: Cultivate Food and Beverage to acquire Adelaide Hills Foods

Cultivate Food and Beverage, a social enterprise backed by disability employer Bedford, has announced the acquisition of Adelaide Hills Foods, a bakery firm headquartered in Lobethal, South Australia that offers the Emmaline’s, Emma Myrtle’s Bakehouse, Positano, James Road and Barossa Pizza brands.

Adelaide Hills Foods supplies over 1,000 national and independent retailers, including Coles, Woolworths and Drakes, with a range of baked products.

With the addition of the existing 76 employees from Adelaide Hills Foods, Cultivate Food and Beverage’s total headcount is projected to reach over 100.

Commenting on the move, Adelaide Hills Foods founders Andrew and Susan Horwood said: “We are thrilled to work in partnership with Cultivate to build our production capacity to meet the ever-growing demand for Adelaide Hills Foods product range. Our Lobethal factory is near capacity and Cultivate provides the perfect business solution with access to their Brooklyn Park facility in the immediate term and an expanded workforce”.

“We are excited for the future and the next growth phase for Adelaide Hills Foods and our stable of brands, which includes over 300 product lines”, they added.

Source: Bedford Group / FoodMag