Australia Food and Grocery Council

The food and grocery manufacturing sector pays wages and salaries of $11.3 billion
The industry’s workforce accounts for about 3 per cent of the population.
The food and grocery manufacturing industry consists of 22,608 businesses.
The industry provides around 24 million nutritious, affordable meals to Australians every day.
222,300 Australians are employed in the food, beverage and manufacturing industries, including half in rural and regional areas.
Australia’s $110 billion food and grocery manufacturing industry is the nation’s largest manufacturing sector.
Industry grew from $993 million in 2007-08 to $1.07 billion in 2011-12, an increase of 6.5 per cent.

Facts & Stats

The food and beverage, grocery and fresh produce industry is:

A major contributor to the Australian economy – generates sales and service income of $108.4 billion annually
Australia’s largest manufacturing sector – 26 per cent of total manufacturing
A major employer - Contributing $13.56 billion in 2008-09 in aid wages and salaries
Employing 3 per cent of the Australian workforce - 312,907 people in 2010-11
Employing a larger number of people than the mining and transport equiptment manufacturing industries combined and contributed to 32.7 per cent of all manufacturing industry jobs
The primary purpose for 5,111 enterprises, which turned over $86.5 billion in 2008-09
A leading exporter -Food and beverage, grocery and fresh produce exports account for 26.1 per cent of all manufacturing sector exports, however, imports exceeded industry exports by $2.7 billion
A leading innovator - $368 million spent on research and development in 2008-09.

For more information, click on the link below to download a copy our State of the Industry 2011 report.

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The OCED has released their FAO Agricultural Outlook - 2011-2020. Click on the link below to download.