About Us

Avondale Foods is an established family owned and operated business, which specialises in the supply of ingredients to the bakery, food service, jams, sauces and preserves trades. From small family owned & operated bakeries to larger internationally recognised brands, as well as smaller boutique jam and sauces to larger preserve companies, a lot of these products go into brands that are both well renowned and enjoyed by families all over Australia and the world. Avondale offers a high standard of both service and quality to all its valued customers no matter how large or small.

Established in 1995 by third generation orchardist Colin Pascoe, Avondale Foods has expanded from a small manufacturing facility on the farm, to a substantial company operating out of a world class facility. While Avondale’s facility is still on the orchard, it has expanded a considerable amount over the years, and now supplies products all over Australia, and is now broadening into import and export. Although Avondale has expanded considerably over the years, we are still very much family owned and operated, with Colin’s sons Ben and Tim now carrying the business forward and the fifth generation now entering the workforce. With the Pascoe Family producing fruit in the productive highlands of the Towac Valley for over 100 years, we are continuing this family tradition and still grow fruit solely for products that are highly valued by bakers and chefs far and wide.

OUR VISION

Avondale Foods is inspired to strive towards the future by offering advanced processing and improved services whilst retaining original values that have helped us to where we are today.  

Our Mission

Avondale food’s objective is to bring manufacturers safe, high-quality products that provide an optimal ingredient to enhance the consumer experience, to improve, research and develop new products, and offer the best packaging methods to assist in effortless distribution, and more efficient bakery management. 

Our core values

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Accountability for our actions, which may affect the lives of our customers, our community, and our fellow staff.

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Venturing outside the box to find skill and technology to bring to the company, ensuring our customers always get the very best. 

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Obligation to supply the best quality product. 

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New! Here at Avondale, we are always embracing new horizons, and continually developing processes to ensure we are always delivering the best. 

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Driving Change. The team at Avondale are always seeking new ways to enhance the end-user experience 

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Assisting our customers to find customised solutions to make the management of their production facility or warehouse more streamlined. 

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Living by our promise! Here at Avondale, we live what we do, and we stand by our promise to deliver the service and quality we claim 

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Ecological sustainability and responsibility. Avondale practices sustainable farming methods and is responsible for maintaining a clean and green attitude in all areas including process, packaging and delivery. 

Our services

The proof is in the apples.

Avondale Foods, an Australian owned company, is committed to delivering a fresh, crisp quality product. We are working closely with our clients at all times to ensure we meet their needs. We are dedicated to maintaining the superior service we offer. Frequent monitoring of the requirements of our customers allows us to guarantee their service is of the highest standard.

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Avondale Orchards

Avondale Orchards is the Apple growing arm of the Avondale Foods Group. 

Avondale Orchards has been in the (Pascoe or our) family for 5 generations and is used exclusively to grow apples for Avondale Foods to process. 

The orchard consists of approximately 40ha of apples on the foothills of Mt Canobolas, in what is a renowned area for apple production.  

We also lease several orchards in the region to give us flexibility of supply. 

Apples are harvested and kept in cold storage for use throughout the year. 

Avondale focuses on varieties which are suited to processing and have a good storage ability to allow us to have apple available to process at all times of the year. 

History

For the last five generations and over 100 years, the Pascoe family has farmed the land in the Canobolas district, south west of Orange, NSW.

In the early days, the orchard supplied fresh fruit and vegetable wholesalers and the downgraded fruit was sent away to juice factories or thrown away. In 1995 Avondale Foods was established which helped stabilise the orchard business, by using all downgraded fruit for its processing.   

Today, at Avondale, our factory still operates on the orchard premises, surrounded by the orchard.  

Varieties we grow

Royal Gala
Medium size apple with a sweet flavour which is ideal for pies, sauces and salads. 

Fuji
Midsized apple, has a crisp, crunchy texture and is slightly sweeter than most varieties. Ideal to use in salads, pies and sauces.

Granny Smith
Firm apple with a crisp tart flavour making it the standard for baking. Also well suited to salads, sauces and pies. 

Sundowner
Crisp and sweet, popular eating apple and also perfect for baking.

Pink Lady
Large apple with a firm, sweet, crisp, juicy flesh. Well used in salads, sauces and pies.

Region

The Canobolas/Orange district has long been renowned for its advantageous apple growing conditions and has been producing apples for over 175 years. Growing on the slopes of extinct volcano Mt Canobolas, in cool temperatures with a long slow ripening period and plentiful natural rainfall, apples produced by growers in the district are full of flavour and deep in colour.  

At Avondale foods, we are enthusiastic in supporting the local economy, and particularly mindful of the need to promote and maintain the local orchard industry. We work closely with many other growers in the district to supply us with quality fruit to manufacture our products. 

Our Team

At Avondale Foods we are committed to providing a workplace that is all inclusive and celebrates each team members success. 

Ben Pascoe
Director | CEO

Tim Pascoe
Operations Manager | COO

Gavin Thrush
Sales Manager

Matthew Cantrill
Procurement Manager

Yogya Khadka
Quality Manager & Leading Food Scientist 

Louise Cantrill
Administration

Carmen Thrush
Administration

Ken Pascoe
Manager of Engineering, Process Development & Plant Maintenance 

Albert Pascoe
Sales Representative