Vision - Australian Food & Grocery Council

Our role

As an organisation, our goal is to be progressive, influential and sustainable. We focus on:

Proactively influencing the industry’s agenda
Delivering valuable insights for members
Operating a sustainable, efficient and effective organisation
Facilitating pre-competitive collective action
Connecting members across industry
Building relationships with organisations aligned to our purpose

We do all this with integrity, collaboration and innovation.

Priorities

Through our advocacy work, we are calling on industry to double the value of the industry to nearly $250 billion by 2030. This is a national priority.

Our strategic priorities are:

to lead and influence the packaging and food waste agenda

to present industry views and credible evidence into the preventative health regulatory agenda

to enhance systems and processes for member recruitment and engagement.

The AFGC promotes ideas and policies that enable Australian food, beverage and grocery businesses to sustain the industry’s competitiveness, improve trading conditions, and support growth and profitability.

The AFGC supports:

- Competitiveness. A sector that encourages a level playing field. We want to see thriving businesses. Consumers, suppliers and retailers should all benefit.

- Retailer–supplier relationships. Let’s aim for fair relationships between suppliers and retailers. We want to see high standards of conduct within the sector, with business arrangements that benefit all parties.

- Supply chain. An end-to-end supply chain should be resilient, efficient and sustainable.

- Trade. With export opportunities and reduced trade distortions under a rules-based trading system.

- Investment. Investment in the sector supports innovation, productivity and competitiveness.

- Manufacturing inputs. The availability of affordable, reliable and high-quality inputs – including raw materials, energy and people – enables the operation, expansion and continued modernisation of the sector.

Read the Sustaining Australia 2030 report