The VEGEMITE brand has a history spanning over 99 years and is proudly owned by the great
Vegemite and Marmite
If you know you'll soon be craving that bizarre salty/folic-acidy taste, you'll have to bring your own from home.
The Bega Group is an Australian diversified food and drinks company with manufacturing sites in New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria.
Wesfarmers Limited is an Australian conglomerate, headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. It has interests predominantly in Australia and New Zealand, operating in retail, chemical, fertiliser, industrial and safety products.
Bunnings Group Limited, trading as Bunnings Warehouse or Bunnings, is an Australian household hardware and garden centre chain. The chain has been owned by Wesfarmers since 1994, and has stores in Australia and New Zealand.
Woolworths Group is a major Australia-based Company with extensive retail interest throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Ausgrid was wholly owned by the Government of New South Wales from 2011 to 2016. In 2016, the New South Wales Government offered the effective sale of a 50.4% stake in Ausgrid, through a 99-year lease. Initial bidding was won by a consortium of State Grid Corporation of China and Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings.
seafood (particularly saltwater shell fish such as oysters, crabs, lobster and abalone) fresh fruits (citrus, table grapes, cherries and mangoes) oats and other breakfast cereals. chilled and frozen beef.
The main products that China exported to Australia are Computers ($4.97B), Broadcasting Equipment ($4.09B), and Other Furniture ($1.82B). During the last 26 years the exports of China to Australia have increased at an annualized rate of 13.7%, from $2.5B in 1995 to $70B in 2021.
The VEGEMITE brand has a history spanning over 99 years and is proudly owned by the great Australian food company – Bega Cheese Limited.
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.
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.
Vegemite is a dark brown savory spread invented in Australia in 1922. Most Aussies love it, making it an iconic Australian food, but the taste can be polarizing to those unfamiliar.
Artificial folate, also known as folic acid, is highly regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, though, and only approved for use in a few foods (such as breakfast cereals). But since Vegemite's folate is naturally occurring—brewers' yeast contains several B vitamins—it is not banned in America.
Japanese Vegemite: Natto
Natto is eaten daily and known as breakfast staple. Similar to vegemite, foreign people tend to think it tastes awful.
Trade and investment
China is Australia's largest two-way trading partner in goods and services, accounting for nearly one third (32.2 per cent) of our trade with the world.
Australia shipped 158,000t of beef to China in 2022, a long way from the 300,000t in trade seen in 2019 before the plant suspensions started. One estimate suggested 50pc of Australia's original China-approved processing capacity had been removed following the suspensions.
China's Luye Medical bought hospital operator Healthe Care and now owns 34 hospitals across Australia, making it the third largest operator in the country.
While big spending buyers are targeting three and four-bedroom homes in Sydney, smaller student accommodation apartments around Australia are also popular Chinese investments. “Chinese buyers are looking overseas for higher returns than they can obtain in their domestic housing or stock markets,” Mr Ho said.
Foreign ownership of Australian farmland increased last year but remained flat as a percentage of the overall total, with China holding the most land.
The company employ approximately 13,180 people, operates throughout Australia and is administered by its head office in Minchinbury, New South Wales. ALDI Stores (A Limited Partnership) is a wholly owned subsidiaries of Austria-based supermarket company, Hofer KG.
Coles Group Limited is an Australian public company operating several retail chains. Its chief operations are primarily concerned with the sale of food and groceries through its flagship supermarket chain Coles Supermarkets, and the sale of liquor through its Coles Liquor outlets.
Woolworths International (Australia) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the South African-based, Woolworths Holdings Limited.