Who we are | Peerless Foods

Our History

Peerless Foods began its life in the 1950s as a small business, recycling and rendering meat by-products in Melbourne, Victoria. Over the years, the refinery was upgraded and expanded with state-of-the-art technology and systems.

By the 1980s, the company had diversified its operation from tallow to other edible fats and oils, including margarine. A number of retail and foodservice brands were developed while the company continued to expand into various markets by introducing value-add processes and efficient packaging operations. Through a key acquisition in 2005, Peerless Foods purchased Unilever’s non-retail margarine and oil business which included the EOI, Copha, Fairy and Kremelta brands.

Today, the company provides branded and private label packaged oils, spreads, margarines and shortenings to 5 major segments of the market including Retail, Food Service, Bakery, Ingredients and Export. Our products are sold through major retailers and key distributors Australia-wide and also exported to many parts of the world, including Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

Due to an acquisition in 2022, our range now also includes a ready-to-use range that consists of: pastry rolls, shells, croissants, Danish pastry squares and Danish pastries.

Our purpose is simple

We are the enablers for your business to deliver a competitive advantage in a fluid environment that demands responsiveness to changing tastes and dietary preferences.

Whether you are sourcing oil blends for your manufacturing process, looking for a margarine spread for your retail business, bakery margarines or shortenings for your bakery, frying oils for your Foodservice business; or even oils with specific fatty acid profiles for infant nutrition formula or performance supplements, Peerless Foods can tailor a solution for you.

Peerless Foods prides itself on a partnership approach with our customers; across varied manufacturing processes such as infant and adult nutrition, confectionary, bakery, chilled and frozen products.

Through innovation responsiveness we have grown to be one of the industry’s leaders and our team of acclaimed PhD Oil Scientists takes advantage of leading consumer insights, research and development, creative expertise and customer intimacy to develop products that cut through to endusers.

Our reputation is built on providing outstanding and seamless customer service with our flexible operational capabilities to meet your just in time needs. Whether it’s an oil order that needs consistent, reliable delivery or blend advice for delivering more profitable ingredient solutions for your business – we always have someone to answer your question.