AFGC Standards Partner
GS1 Australia is the leading provider of standards and solutions for over 20 industry sectors. They introduced barcoding to Australia in 1979 and today they enable more than 21,000 member companies, of all sizes, to become more efficient by implementing the GS1 system.
They bring businesses, associations and industries together. This blended community comes to GS1 Australia for advice, networking and solutions to their supply chain challenges. GS1 partner with, and help showcase, members, solution providers and industry leaders to demonstrate and encourage supply chain best practice.
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AFGC Executive Search Partner
Touchstone Executive search help clients achieve their business goals by securing the best senior executive talent.
Since 2003, they have advised major Australian and multinational public and private companies on senior appointments across the Asia Pacific region.
Through research and global network relationships they build deep industry background and behavioural knowledge.
This allows them to deliver high caliber shortlists quickly and efficiently, focused exactly on the client’s brief.
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AFGC INSIGHTS Partner
NielsenIQ is the industry leader in global measurement and data analytics, and the most trusted source for retail and consumer intelligence.
Delivering the complete truth to retailers, manufacturers, and their partners through comprehensive data sets and powerful insights, NielsenIQ enables businesses to make critical decisions confidently, accelerating growth and optimizing performance.
NeilsenIQ’s 30,000 employees — based in over 100 countries — are talented, passionate, and unwavering in their commitment to helping clients achieve success.
ADM
At ADM we unlock the power of nature to provide access to nutrition worldwide. With industry-advancing innovations, a complete portfolio of ingredients and solutions to meet any taste, and a commitment to sustainability, we give customers an edge in solving the nutritional challenges of today and tomorrow. We’re a global leader in human and animal nutrition and the world’s premier agricultural organisation and processing company.
Argon&Co
Argon&Co is ‘a management consultancy with a difference’ driving bottom-line performance by creating value through end-to-end supply chain transformation.
We partner with retailers, suppliers and producers from family run businesses to ASX listed companies.
With credentials to cover every element of a COO’s remit, our skillset is founded with operational bias; specialising in manufacturing excellence, supply chain efficiency, lean training, engineering, technology solutions, capital investment and procurement.
Baker & McKenzie
Baker McKenzie brings insight and foresight to clients across more than 70 global offices. Our team of 13,000 people, including over 6,500 lawyers, works alongside our clients to drive growth that is both sustainable – and inclusive.
BDM Revenue Management Consulting
BDM Revenue Management Consulting specialises in revenue management and analytics. They use the latest tools in pricing, promotional mechanics, pack architecture, brand strategies, insights, category growth and mix management to improve business performance.
Cheetham Salt
Cheetham Salt operates six solar fields and four refineries throughout Australia and is a key supplier to the food industry. Our harvesting practices produce natural salt from pure waters then we refine, process and pack the salt ourselves. We are proud of our ability to produce high-quality salt and we are committed to delivering on our vision of ‘providing our customers a great experience, every time’.
CHEP
CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organisation on earth. Its pallets, crates and containers form the invisible backbone of the global supply chain and the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, sustainably and safely.
Chr. Hansen
Chr. Hansen is a global bioscience company, developing, producing and supplying cultures, enzymes, probiotics and natural colours. A global leader in ingredients for dairy, processed meat and fermented beverages, Chr. Hansen was named in 2020 by Corporate Knights as the most sustainable food ingredients company in the world.
CROSSMARK
We help brands connect to shoppers and drive sales growth through faster, smarter field teams
CROSSMARK specialises in delivering smarter field solutions that help brands grow faster and more efficiently, through data-driven deployment.
We’re a market leader with incredible speed, reach and coverage. CROSSMARK provides a flexible and innovative approach to activating strategies in retail. We partner with our clients to increase their presence in retail and deliver sales growth for their business.
For over 100 years CROSSMARK has partnered the world’s largest and most powerful brands in retail. We create bespoke solutions whether you’re looking for short-term tactical support or a long-term strategic program. With CROSSMARK, we’re not just a service provider but a strategic partner for your business.
Danisco Australia Pty Ltd
Danisco develops and produces food ingredients and sweeteners.
The group employs around 10,000 people worldwide. Danisco’s broad product portfolio includes emulsifiers, stabilisers, cultures, antioxidants and sweeteners.
The majority of these ingredients are produced from natural raw materials and contribute, for instance, to improving the texture in bread, ice-cream, yoghurt and other products.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
At Deloitte, we are driven to create an impact that matters at every opportunity.
Over our 175-year history, we have built a reputation for impactful delivery across audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax, and technology services.
Today’s environment of accelerating change requires creative problem-solving generated by the fusion of different disciplines. Deloitte’s multi-dimensional approach addresses the breadth of perspective needed to deliver breakthrough solutions. We connect the talents of more than 310,000 professionals and our IP and technology alliances–collaborating to drive impact.
Dematic Pty Ltd
We optimize your supply chain
Dematic is a global engineering company that designs, builds and life cycle supports logistics solutions that optimize material and information flow—from receiving to shipping, within the four walls of the factory, warehouse, or distribution center.
Detmold Australia Sales
At Detpak, we design, manufacture, and supply the FMCG, grocery and foodservice industry with world-class sustainable paper and board packaging, delivered with the care you would expect from a family-owned business. At our core is an entrepreneurial spirit and passion to make brands shine through superior quality, service and value.
Devro
Devro is one of the world’s leading suppliers of collagen casings for food, used by customers in the production of a wide variety of sausages and other meat products. Collagen is a naturally occurring polymer which is transformed into gel, tubular casing and film at Devro’s manufacturing sites in the US, Netherlands, UK, China, Czech Republic and Australia.
Dupont Sustainable Solutions (dss+)
We find science-enabled, sustainable solutions for our customers, always managing our businesses to protect the environment and preserve the earth’s natural resources—for today and for future generations.
DuPont Sustainable Solutions Australia
dss⁺ is a leading provider of operations management consulting services with a purpose of saving lives and creating a sustainable future. dss⁺ enables organizations to build organisational and human capabilities, manage risk, improve operations, achieve sustainability goals and operate more responsibly.
Earlee Products
Better food outcomes, every time
Earlee Products have been creating better ingredient and processing outcomes for 30 years. We partner with leading food and beverage manufacturers across Australia and the world, using our technical expertise to solve their challenges and identify new opportunities.
We’re renowned for our ability to improve and enhance food products to capitalise on changing consumer trends. Our innovative and creative team can customise a method to solve your food problems. Whether you want to enhance taste, texture or visual appeal, improve manufacturing cost efficiencies, offer cleaner, more sustainable alternatives, or ensure food safety, quality and functionality, Earlee Products can help you achieve it.
Fibrisol Service Australia
Fibrisol Service Australia is an internationally recognised company and brand name, owned by BK Giulini GmbH based in Germany. Fibrisol along with the other global brands of TARI®, FIBRICURE®, BRIFISOL®, MIANJIA®, SOLVA®, JOHA®, TARISPICE®, TARIMIX®, TAROMA®, BEKAPLUS®, LEVONA®, BEKABAKE® and others are leading functional ingredients systems in their fields within the food industry.
As part of a global organisation, Fibrisol has access to leading edge technology and global expertise in the food manufacturing area.
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Foodbank Australia Ltd
Foodbank is the leading food relief organisation in Australia and provides food and groceries to more than 2,400 registered charities and 2,500 schools for school breakfast programs and family outreach. Foodbank works with the entire Australian food and grocery sector including farmers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and retailers who donate and redirect surplus product.
GS1 Australia
GS1 Australia is the leading provider of standards and solutions for over 20 industry sectors. They introduced barcoding to Australia in 1979 and today they enable more than 21,000 member companies, of all sizes, to become more efficient by implementing the GS1 system.
They bring businesses, associations and industries together. This blended community comes to GS1 Australia for advice, networking and solutions to their supply chain challenges. GS1 partner with, and help showcase, members, solution providers and industry leaders to demonstrate and encourage supply chain best practice.
IRI Worldwide
As one of the original innovators in big data, IRI integrates the world’s largest set of otherwise disconnected purchase, media, social, causal and loyalty data to help CPG, retail, over-the-counter health care and media companies grow their businesses.
Matthews Australasia
Matthews Australasia is the Australian leader in intelligent product identification, inspection and software traceability solutions. We deliver intelligent coding, labelling, inspection and software solutions to drive efficiency & cost-effectiveness. Matthews has now been in business for over forty years and is a trusted supplier to many food & grocery manufacturers.
Meat & Livestock Australia
Meat & Livestock Australia Ltd (MLA) strives to be the recognised leader in delivering world-class research, development and marketing outcomes that benefit Australian cattle, sheep and goat producers.
Working in collaboration with the Australian Government and wider red meat industry, MLA’s mission is to deliver value to levy payers by investing in initiatives that contribute to producer profitability, sustainability and global competitiveness.
NEXTGEN Group
The retailing industry in Austalia is in rapid change. The old rules are broken, the competitive enviroment more complex, with completely new forms of competition emerging. NGG was founded to work with Retailers and Suppliers in new ways to deliver excellent experiences for shoppers and consumers.
NIQ (NielsenIQ)
NIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company providing the most complete and trusted view of consumers and markets in 90 countries covering 90% of the world’s population. Focusing primarily on consumer packaged goods manufacturers and fast-moving consumer packaged goods and retailers, we give customers the power to defy what’s possible.
Our approach allows us to connect the dots that others can’t see and build the bigger picture that others miss. How? We combine unparalleled datasets, pioneering technology and the brightest minds in the industry, to create insights that don’t just make bold decisions possible, but necessary. Everything we do is focused on putting you in the position to transform how sectors and industries see themselves.
Ofload
Orora Limited
At Orora, we believe packaging touches lives. Together, we deliver on the promise of what’s inside.
With 22 manufacturing plants and 74 distribution centres across seven countries and 3,700 team members, we supply packaging products and services to the grocery, fast moving consumer goods and industrial markets.
Orora works closely with its customers to provide an extensive range of tailored packaging solutions. This includes the design and manufacture of packaging products such as glass bottles, beverage cans, corrugated boxes, cartons, and point-of-purchase displays. We also offer broad end-to-end packaging solutions, including global product sourcing, distribution, design, printing and warehousing optimisation. Every day, millions of consumers buy and use goods in packaging proudly designed, developed, produced or supplied by Orora.
Partners in Performance
Unleashing potential to achieve high performance.
Our focus is to partner with our clients to drive high performance. We achieve this by drawing out the potential in people, coaching them to see their potential and empowering them to achieve it. This is where the magic happens, true transformation, when people reach further, achieving results often beyond what they thought possible.
Real World Marketing
We are consumer, shopper and category experts – transforming our extensive insight and knowledge bank into tangible actions and outcomes for the retail environment.
We work with suppliers and retailers to understand their business challenges and provide expertise and solutions to achieve mutual sales and profit growth. Growth comes from understanding and working in a collaborative way to provide shoppers and consumers with optimal pre and in store opportunities.
By ensuring investment is put into the right area, and re-directed if necessary, is at the heart of our Real World approach for sustainable growth creation.
Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On.
Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency. We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, end-point to cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries.
We are the most local of global companies. We are advocates of open standards and partnership ecosystems that are passionate about our shared Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive and Empowered values.
Schneider Electric was recognised as the world’s most sustainable company in 2021 by Corporate Knights Global 100 Index.
Six Degrees Executive
Six Degrees Executive is a leading specialist FMCG and retail recruitment agency and consultancy. Since 2004, Six Degrees has actively worked with AFGC as a member, providing recruitment services for Australia’s leading FMCG and retail organisations, as well as talent advisory services, personalised career development and industry thought leadership.
SKUvantage (Salsify)
Salsify (operating as SKUvantage | Salsify in ANZ) helps brand manufacturers, distributors, and retailers in over 100 countries collaborate to win on the digital shelf. With our unified Product Experience Management platform (PXM), we make it easy for brands to optimise their product content for a variety of channels, including their D2C site, retailer channels and market places.
For retailers, the solution gives access to a unique resource of high-quality content. Our unique approach has been recognised with our acquisition by Salsify in 2021, the world’s leading and most innovative SAAS PIM.
Just in Food and Grocery we have more than 50,000 products in our library in Australia.
StayinFront Group Australia
StayinFront is a leading global provider of mobile, cloud-based field force effectiveness and retail execution solutions for Consumer Goods and Life Sciences organizations. Companies of all sizes in over 50 countries use StayinFront software to innovate sales operations and reduce the complexity, time and expense associated with field efforts.
Strikeforce AMC
Strikeforce is a privately owned, highly awarded and leading outsourced sales and merchandising, brand activation and shopper marketing solutions provider operating across Australia and New Zealand.
With over 48+ years of experience and the deepest and broadest retail/ outlet coverage by over 2000 expert Brand Activators invested across all retail channels from Grocery and Independent Supermarkets, Petrol & Convenience, Foodservice to Big Box/Mass Merch Retail, Home Improvement/Leisure and Pharmacy stores, we make a demonstrable and incremental improvement to the return on investment of our partners’ sales/marketing spend.
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Telus Consumer Goods
We are a dynamic, world-leading technology company powered by our purpose with $16 billion in annual revenue and 15.2 million customer connections, including the roll-out of our national 5G network across urban and rural Canada.
From our global-best technology and commitment to putting customers first to our passion to drive social change, we’re helping make the world a better place for generations to come. Let’s make the future friendly, together. We are applying the strength of our digital capabilities to answer the world’s most pressing social challenges in healthcare, agriculture and sustainability.
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Tetra Pak Marketing
Tetra Pak are specialists in complete solutions for the processing, packaging and distribution of food products.
Dairy products, juices and nectars, ice cream, cheese, dry foods, fruits, vegetables and pet food are examples of products that can be processed or packaged in Tetra Pak® processing and packaging lines. We focus on keeping the consumption of all raw materials and energy to a minimum during both the manufacturing process and distribution. The processing solutions are also designed to treat the products gently.
In 2016 we packed 77.8 billion of litres in 188 billion packages. Tetra Pak is present in more than 175 countries around the world.
The Advantage Group
Advantage Group helps people and organizations work better together. We provide the gift of feedback and, through insight, drive positive behaviour change and business growth. In the world of fast-moving consumer goods, we act as an integral link between suppliers and retailers.
Advantage uses data, feedback and strategy consulting to illuminate opportunities for mutual growth, strengthen relationships and provide invaluable insight. In over 40 countries, Advantage creates better insight, better business and better lives.
The BMA Group
Turning insights into results.
Since 1994, BMA Group has helped smart businesses of all sizes and across all industries sustainably reduce their costs, evolve decision-making processes and gain a richer base of insights and information.
The Gap Partnership Australia
The Gap Partnership are a global negotiation consultancy specializing in the development of practical and highly effective negotiation solutions and strategies.
With offices around the world, we operate in over 50 countries and work with more than 600 organisations. Our team of consultants bring real-world commercial experience from a range of industry sectors, and partner with our clients to provide best-in-class solutions to their negotiation needs.
Touchstone Executive Search
Touchstone Executive search help clients achieve their business goals by securing the best senior executive talent.
Since 2003, they have advised major Australian and multinational public and private companies on senior appointments across the Asia Pacific region.
Through research and global network relationships they build deep industry background and behavioural knowledge.
This allows them to deliver high caliber shortlists quickly and efficiently, focused exactly on the client’s brief.
Veeva Australia
As a Public Benefit Corporation, we are guided by our core values — do the right thing, customer success, employee success, and speed — to help the life sciences industry improve health and extend life and to create high-quality jobs that benefit our employees and communities.
As a PBC, we operate as a for-profit company, but we also pursue a public benefit purpose that is listed in our certificate of incorporation, can only be changed by shareholder vote, and is intended to provide societal benefits beyond just shareholder financial returns. Our public benefit purpose is as follows:
To provide products and services that are intended to help make the industries we serve more productive and to create high-quality employment opportunities in the communities in which we operate.
Yume Food Australia
Yume is an E2E technology transforming the management of surplus food. Food manufacturers use Yume to transform how they manage, sell and donate excess inventory (such as SLOB, clearance, NPD, de-ranged, out of spec and mislabelled products). Yume digitises manual processes, allowing manufacturers to automate sales and donation workflows, increase revenue and reduce food waste.
Founded by former founding CEO of SecondBite, Katy Barfield (OAM) and built with the support of the Atlassian Foundation, Yume’s tech solution is used by the likes of Unilever, Mars Food, General Mills and other leading FMCG manufacturers.