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Peter Cobb

Laucke Flour Mills

Overview

• Maximising higher value food opportunities by innovation

–Introduction

–State of Play: Food Manufacturing in SA

–Grain Foods Value Chain

–Laucke Opinion

About Laucke Flour Mills

• 114 year old Family owned company - ‘The Oldest’

• Based in SA, operations in VIC - ‘Australia’s Food Bowl’

• 2.5% national market share - ‘The Coopers Brewery of Flour’

• Feeding approximately 700,000 Aussies per week

• High level of expertise - ‘Industry Thought Leader’

• High cost producer - ‘Sell on Value, not Price’

• Unique position today:

– Always ‘in the middle’ of the Grain Foods Value Chain

– Work with every entity from ‘Pre-paddock to Plate’

SA Food Manufacturing

Grains Foods Value Chain