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Bega Cheese is an Australian owned and operated cheese company located in the beautiful Bega Valley, on the south coast of New South Wales. The company was founded as a dairy co-operative in 1899, and many of the current owners of Bega Cheese are the 100 plus dairy farmers.
China company Mengniu Dairy owns the following brands: Dairy Farmers, Pura, Farmers Union, Masters, Moove, Dare, Vitasoy, Yoplait, Fruche, Divine Classic, YoGo, Big M, Berri, Just Juice, Daily Juice, King Island Dairy, South Cape, Tilba, Timboon, Tasmanian Heritage and Clover Creek,” the text above the image reads.
The VEGEMITE brand has a history spanning over 99 years and is proudly owned by the great Australian food company – Bega Cheese Limited.
We are the Bega Group and we are proudly Australian owned. Collectively, for more than a century we have dedicated ourselves to being leading makers and innovators of great Australian food and drink brands for all Australians to enjoy.
Bega Cheese has made a bold strategic shift with a $460 million deal taking the dairy processor into branded consumer goods after snapping up names such as Vegemite and KRAFT Mac & Cheese from Mondelēz International's Australia and New Zealand business.
In the 1950s and 60s, despite acquisition by the American company Kraft, Vegemite became a distinctively 'Australian' food. It featured in songs, on souvenirs and other popular culture ephemera. Vegemite returned to Australian ownership in 2017 when purchased by dairy company Bega.
Bega acquired the Australian division of Kraft Foods (known as Mondelez Australia), including the assets and goodwill of the business. After the purchase, Bega ran a series of advertisements letting Australian consumers know that Kraft peanut butter is now Bega peanut butter: “Same recipe, same great taste.
Australia's Favourite Peanut Butter is now Aussie owned by Bega. Made in Port Melbourne with the same 'Never Oily, Never Dry' recipe you've always loved. All that's changed is the name!
Other noteworthy companies with a presence include Haval Australia, CITIC, Sinopec, Wugang Australia, Mengniu Dairy, CSCEC and By-Health.
Our milk is collected from dedicated Farmers' Own farmers in most states of Australia. Milk is collected from lots of farms across the states. It is then delivered to our processors and kept separate from other milk where it is bottled into Farmers' Own Bottles.
We get 82% of our dairy products from true blue, Australian dairy farms (we only source from overseas when we can't find the products). Eggs and dairy products are essential ingredients in some of our favourite foods, such as omelettes, cakes, pizza, chocolate, and ice-cream.
In July 2017, Bega expanded its portfolio to include Vegemite, ZoOSh and Bega Peanut Butter. Bega now operates manufacturing sites across Victoria and NSW producing some of Australia's most iconic and loved food brands and products.
Bega Cheese's CEO is Pete Findlay, appointed in Jan 2022, he has a tenure of 1.5 years. His total yearly compensation is A$899.56K , comprised of 72.1% salary and 27.9% bonuses, including company stock and options. He directly owns 0.008% of the company's shares, worth A$71.36K.
Vegemite owner Bega Cheese has officially taken ownership of the Lion Dairy and Drinks business which includes big brands such as Dairy Farmers, Yoplait, Big M, Masters and Farmers Union iced coffee.
Bega Cheese's competitors and similar companies include The A2 Milk Company, Yamazaki Baking, McCain Foods USA and Ferrero. Bega Cheese is a provider of processed and natural dairy products.
Bega Cheese Limited is a locally-owned publicly listed company that generates its revenue from the processing and manufacturing of dairy and other food related products which it distributes across Australia and exports to over 40 countries.
Bega Cheese and US company Kraft Heinz had been locked in a long-running legal dispute, centred on Bega's use of a jar with a yellow label and yellow lid. Bega bought the peanut butter business from Mondelez Australia in 2017, and produced the spread at what was the Kraft factory in Port Melbourne.
Really. Here's the article. THE United States has slapped a ban on Vegemite, outraging Australian expatriates there. The bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite contains folate, which in the US can be added only to breads and cereals.
VEGEMITE continues to be Australia's most popular yeast spread* with more than 22 million jars of VEGEMITE manufactured every year. Australians spread about 1.2 billion serves of VEGEMITE on toast, bread or biscuits every year. If this was all placed end to end, it would go around the world three times.
Vegemite maker Kraft spokeswoman Joanna Scott reportedly said: "The Food and Drug Administration doesn't allow the import of Vegemite simply because the recipe does have the addition of folic acid."
Australian Owned. Trusted. Loved.
Our brands include some of Australia's favourite household names such as VEGEMITE, ZOOSH, BEGA, DAIRY FARMERS and TATURA. We are suppliers of high-quality products from cheese to condiments, dressings, mayonnaise, spreads and portion control staples.
In 2020, the company raised significant funds to purchase Kirin's suite of dairy products, including Dairy Farmers and Pura Milk. In 2022, the Bega Group was formed bringing together several brands including Bega Cheese, Vegemite, Dare Iced Coffee, Dairy Farmers, Farmers Union and Zooper Dooper.
Best known for its range of cheese products, Bega is a $1.1 billion business, and as one of the biggest players in the Australian stock market's food manufacturing sector, the 123-year-old company has cemented itself as a household name.