Sprawling north of the city
North of the city is home to many South Australian food businesses – big and small -
with its flat land and industrial zones. It is also the proud home to much of Adelaide's
finest agricultural production.
Slape’s sizzling sausages
There’s more to a sausage than meets the eye, according to Slape and Sons.
Twice a week, the aroma of freshly sizzled sausages wafts from Slape and Sons manufacturing plant at Newton as the Slape clan taste test new and current lines.
Not content to rest on their laurels as one of South Australia’s – and Australia’s – quality sausage makers, Robbie Slape and his sons Philip and Paul test their sausages for taste, texture, appearance and how they cook up.
“I think that’s been one of the secrets to our success,” said manager Philip Slape. “It’s not just about the way a sausage looks – it has to perform as well.”
Slape and Son’s commitment to quality has seen it develop from a one man show in the 1960s to today employing around 25 people and being stocked in supermarkets and butchers across the nation.
Philip said the family owned and operated business began in 1965 when his butcher father, Robbie, helped out a butcher friend by making his sausages while he was on holidays.
“When his friend returned from holidays his customers told him they preferred the sausages they had bought the week before!”
Robbie started making sausages for a range of butchers before deciding to sell his store at
Beulah Park and concentrate on sausage making.
Today, Slape and Sons supplies 28 different lines – 22 of them sausage varieties. The sausage product range includes British pork chipolatas, ranchero beef, German bratwurst, fresh cheese kransky, and Greek rosemary and garlic while other lines include Texas hamburgers and lemon pepper chicken. All products are gluten free.
“Whilst we have made a big commitment to use export standard plant and equipment we have made a bigger commitment to our customers using old fashioned values of quality and service,”
Philip explained.
“To this end we still use mincers rather than emulsifiers to produce a consistent coarse cut quality product with good customer service.”
Slape and Sons products are available at Foodland, Food Works and IGA stores, as well as
specialty shops.
For more details
Contact
Philip Slape
Slape and Sons
p +61 8 8365 5555
e philip@slapeandsons.com.au
w www.slapeandsons.com.au
Still got that spring!
A kind Christmas gesture made more than 50 years ago spawned the multi-million dollar South Australian owned and operated, Spring Gully Foods.
Edward McKee was nothing if not industrious.
Orphaned at the age of three, Edward spent much of his early life living in a tent in his Aunt’s backyard. Shortly after World War 2, he bought an orange orchard at Spring Gully, in the suburb of Rostrevor and added more than 3000 chooks to provide manure for the orange trees. His oranges and eggs were sold to local corner stores.
At Christmas each year Edward would take a bottle of his home grown pickled onions to each of his customers. Soon, his reputation for pickled onions overtook his reputation as an orange and egg supplier and Spring Gully Foods was born in 1946.
As the business expanded, Edward was joined by family members and a close friend and a new factory was built on site at Spring Gully.
Spring Gully’s products were sold initially through Tom the Cheap supermarket chain, and later Coles and Woolworths.
Today, Spring Gully operates from purpose-built premises at Dry Creek in Cavan, and its products are found across Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan and the Asia Pacific region.
Spring Gully Foods is still family owned and operated, with an experienced fourth generation team continuing the expansion of the business into the future.
In recent years it has purchased Leabrook Farms Honey and Gardener and today employs 45 people.
The Spring Gully range includes pickles, gherkins, pickled onions, sauces and jams; while the Leabrook Farms range includes a range of honey in glass and squeeze packs. The Gardener range includes sweet spiced gherkins and onions.
Spring Gully Foods also manufacture, package and distribute brand name product for other businesses as well as a host of generic supermarket labels.
For more information
Contact
Kevin Webb
Spring Gully Foods
p +61 8 8262 7555
e kevin.webb@springgullyfoods.com.au
w www.springgullyfoods.com.au
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