Food Hubs Albany and Denmark have significant potential to assist artisan food and beverage producers through establishing Food Hubs. The artisan food and beverage segment rely on achieving economies of scale and shared direct marketing strategies and resources to compete with larger producers. This enables a greater diversity of quality, value-added products to be competitively developed, distributed and produced. Common user food production facilities achieve this outcome through reducing the cost per producer for expensive equipment such as kitchens, drying facilities, bottling, packaging, storage and distribution. These facilities can be privately, cooperatively, or publicly funded or a combination of public seed funding and other matching investments. The business model is focussed on developing the right mix of infrastructure for regional food producers and leasing it on a user pays basis, for artisan producers to come together to develop a cooperative model and for government to assist by providing core infrastructure funding where the investment market is not already responding.
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Resources Department of Primary industry and Regional Development - Business Development Manager www.waopenforbusiness.wa.gov.au Department of Primary Industries - Food Industry Innovation +61 (0)8 9881 0221
foodindustryinnovation@agric.wa.gov.au Great Southern Food and Beverage Guide www.agric.wa.gov.au/sites/gateway/files/FCG%20V2%20Interactive.pdf
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