For more than 25 years we've been making the most beautiful, luscious food for fine food retailers, hamper and gift companies, food service and catering, cafés and delis, and Christmas of course.

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Fine Food Retailers

Local supermarkets, providores and regional general stores looking for something different, something the mega majors don't stock . . .

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Hampers and Gifts

Brilliantly presented quality foods for hamper, marketing/promotions and corporate gift companies.

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Food Service & Catering

For hotels, restaurants, private clubs, events, golf clubs, airlines . .
Dessert puddings, pannacottas, cheesecakes and mousses.
As well as many of our packaged products available in food service packs.

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Cafes and Delis

So many of our products are just the right size and look for your retail stands and counter-top displays.


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Christmas Food Gifts

An amazing range of traditional and contemporary Christmas food gifts, in beautiful award-wining packaging which makes them perfect for your Christmas retail displays, for gifts and for hampers

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On-Line Shoppers

All of our wonderful range of goodies is available online. Except our chilled desserts which need refrigerated transport.

Of course if you are a shopper looking for wholesale quantities and prices get in touch.

Food store photo by Nick Karvounis on Unsplash

Cafe photo by Felix M. Dorn on Unsplash

With The Gourmet Merchant you'll be working with people who really know how to produce attractive, delicious, top quality specialty and gourmet foods.

We are a medium-sized totally Australian, private company which for more than 25 years has led the way in creating and producing some of the finest specialty and gourmet foods in Australia. From the outset have been exporting to the UK (pre-Brexit), Dubai and Singapore.

We have a fantastic reputation for the quality and deliciousness of our products, and for our amazing service. For most of our time in business, we have worked in food service. No-one is more demanding than our lovely chef clients -they have trained us so well to be responsive to all our client's needs.

We are absolutely totally HACCP accredited.

In fact, I think we were one of the first in our industry to be fully accredited. Our last, unofficial, audit was "perfect."

Our award-winning packaging means you really can tell our books by their covers.

They look so good on your retail shelves, on your displays and countertops, and in your hampers.

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Don't take our word for it

Over the years I have tried various brands of Christmas pudding. The best by far are the ones from Puddings on the Ritz - they are even better than my family made ones, which were always a tradition. I'll never try to make another Christmas pudding again because these are so good. Thank you Puddings on the Ritz for making my life that much easier at Christmas-time.
Roz - Queenscliff
I love your sweets
Gordon - Mosman
Your snack foods truly are yum and a staple in a bunch of our gifts
Sue - Melbourne Gift Company
The quality of your Turkish Delight is so far above other brands that I know I'll be disappointed by them now. I was also impressed that this is made in Australia from at least 99% Australian ingredients.
Debra - Applecross
We saved our Traditionale Panforte di Siena from Christmas for Easter, and it was delicious, amazingly so! Thank you for a memorable Easter morning tea."
The Perry Family

This site is especially for our wholesale customers.

Get in touch-

  • to make sure you have our latest price list.
  • if you are interested in wholesale quantities and prices

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