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Maggie Beer

September

Paris Creek’s Nuage Blanc.

Maggie Beer opens data room for organic dairy biz Paris Creek Farms

The sale pitch leans heavily on Paris Creek Farms’ turnaround potential, suggesting it can make four times the revenue than it does under Maggie Beer Holdings’ watch.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

August

Maggie Beer in her kitchen in South Australia’s Barossa Valley.

Maggie Beer Holdings caps disastrous year as it slumps to $28m loss

The gourmet food producer has lost its chief executive and chief financial officer in the past month, and has written down the value of several divisions.

  • Simon Evans

August 2023

Maggie Beer Holdings’ eponymous director. The company says the Maggie Beer name will keep customers returning.

Maggie Beer banks on new products to arrest sliding sales

The CEO of the gourmet foods group says an expanded range of ice-cream should help, although shoppers are more cautious.

  • Simon Evans

June 2023

Maggie Beer Holdings chief executive Kinda Grange.

Maggie Beer’s new boss aims to expand from ice cream to garden tools

The new CEO wants to lift sales to $300m in five years, expanding into pasta products, cooking utensils and gardening tools.

  • Simon Evans
Dr Aniss Chami, CEO of Vitex Pharmaceuticals, says xxx

Exploiting the power of clean, green ‘Australian-made’ overseas

The label ‘Australian-made’ is a big drawcard for consumers in emerging markets, helping Vitex Pharmaceuticals to a 76 per cent growth rate on the Fast Global list.

  • Prashant Mehra
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Maggie Beer is a director and the figurehead of the ASX-listed gourmet food producer Maggie Beer Holdings.

Indigestion at Maggie Beer Holdings

The gourmet food producer’s share price is sinking, but the board says the $40m purchase of an online hampers business will pay off.

  • Simon Evans

May 2023

Bubs founder and CEO Kristy Carr and former executive chairman Dennis Lin with boxes of baby formula bound for the US last year.

Bubs board makes contingency plans for new CEO

It is looking less likely that chief executive Kristy Carr is coming back to the infant formula company she co-founded.

  • Carrie LaFrenz

January 2023

Maggie Beer”s products, 2011: s familiar products.

Maggie Beer Christmas quarter sales ‘strong’

Investors are betting that more affluent shoppers will back off on buying gourmet food, ice-cream and pate as cost-of-living pressures rise.

  • Simon Evans

December 2022

Chantale Millard (left) is departing as chief executive of Maggie Beer Holdings. She is seen here with celebrity chef Maggie Beer and Amy McWaters, chief executive of Hampers & Gifts which was acquired by the company for $40 million. Tash Sorensen

Maggie Beer taps Goodman Fielder exec as CEO

Maggie Beer Holdings’ new chief executive, Kinda Grange, comes with almost two decades at one of Australia’s largest consumer goods companies.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones

October 2022

Chantale Millard (left) is departing as CEO of Maggie Beer Holdings. She is seen here with celebrity chef Maggie Beer and Amy McWaters, CEO of Hampers & Gifts which was acquired by the company for $40 million and enabled it to become a major e-commerce player.

Maggie Beer Holdings CEO to exit

The gourmet food producer makes 66 per cent of sales via e-commerce channels and CEO Chantale Millard says the time is right to depart.

  • Simon Evans

August 2022

Maggie Beer Holdings, with celebrity chef Maggie Beer as its figurehead, has quit diary after plunging into the red

Maggie Beer quits dairy after plunge into the red

The gourmet food group with the celebrity chef as its figurehead now makes 66 per cent of all sales via e-commerce.

  • Simon Evans

May 2022

Maggie Beer Holdings has celebrity chef Maggie Beer as a director and its figurehead, but the group has run into supply chain strife.

Maggie Beer shares dive on $4.2m profit downgrade

The gourmet food group with the celebrity chef as its figurehead is losing patience with two smaller dairy businesses that may be sold.

  • Simon Evans

February 2022

Maggie Beer Holdings has celebrity chef Maggie Beer as a director and its figurehead

Why Maggie Beer is now an e-commerce queen

The timing of a $40 million purchase of an online hampers business has been golden, and given extra grunt to the gourmet foods producer.

  • Simon Evans

December 2021

Maggie Beer Holdings CEO Chantale Millard 9left) celebrity chef Maggie Beer and Amy McWaters, CEO of Hampers & Gifts which was acquired by the company for $40 million.

Maggie Beer’s recipe for long-term ASX success

The celebrity chef finds it a ‘little unreal’ to see her name up in lights on the ASX next to Macquarie Group and Medibank.

  • Simon Evans

November 2021

Maggie Beer Holdings, the ASX-listed group which sells a range of gourmet food products under the brand made famous by the celebrity chef, has had to call in reinforcements for online deliveries.

Maggie Beer Holdings reinforces deliveries after Aust Post delays

The $40m acquisition of Hampers & Gifts put a rocket under online sales but also brought logistics headaches.

  • Simon Evans
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August 2021

Maggie Beer Holdings CEO Chantale Millard, left, celebrity chef Maggie Beer and Amy McWaters, CEO of the newly acquired Hampers & Gifts, after shareholders approved the $40m acquisition by Maggie Beer Holdings.

Maggie Beer Holdings in lockdown sales spike

The gourmet food producer made it back into the black in 2020-21 after losses a year earlier and is eyeing $100m in annual revenue.

  • Simon Evans
A home-grown ethos draws throngs to the cooking class at The Farm Eatery and Experience Centre.

Top chef’s Barossa cooking class an experience to savour

Tim Bourke is happy to take a chance and get inventive as he showcases Maggie Beer’s recipes and local ingredients at his popular classes.

  • Catherine Marshall

May 2021

Maggie Beer Holdings CEO Chantale Millard, left, celebrity chef Maggie Beer and Amy McWaters, CEO of the newly acquired Hampers & Gifts, after shareholders approved the $40m acquisition by Maggie Beer Holdings.

Maggie Beer Holdings steps up e-commerce push

An avalanche of 100,000 pots of Maggie Beer quince paste will go into hampers after the $40m acquisition was approved.

  • Simon Evans
Maggie Beer still held 3.1 per cent of the company prior to the Hampers and Gifts acquisition.

Maggie Beer spent half the company value to get on e-commerce train

Acquiring Hampers and Gifts Australia lets Maggie Beer Holdings double down on e-commerce while broadening its product base. So why was the price a mere 4.4 times earnings?

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  • Adir Shiffman

March 2021

Maggie Beer Holdings, the gourmet foods group built up by celebrity chef Maggie Beer, is almost doubling in size with an e-commerce acquisition. (NO CAPTION INFORMATION PROVIDED) No caption

Geoff Wilson backs Maggie Beer $40m buy

The fund manager owns 7.6pc via a private vehicle and will take up his full rights because it’s a ‘cracker of a deal’.

  • Simon Evans

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