Summerland Olives

About Summerland Olives

Summerland Olive Products Australia Pty Ltd was established in November of 2000.

We are located in sub tropical Northern NSW, An area renown for producing high quality table olives. Olives grown in this region have a high moisture and low oil content, making them ideal for the natural pickling process.

The Directors of Summerland Olive Products Australia Pty Ltd have olive groves established in the Summerland Region of Northern NSW. Growing conditions whilst not considered ideal for oil producing varieties have proved favourable for the production of high quality table fruit.The Directors are an energetic group of olive producers, who have vertically intergrated their olive groves into a processing and marketing company. We aim to establish close ties with olive growers, our customers and other stakeholders in the Olive Industry in Australia.

From the outset Summerland Olives had the intention of processing olive oil and table fruit. Having purchased an oil press in 2001 to process olive oil and seeing first hand the relativly low oil yeilds produced by local olives, it was decided to base the business predominatly on the processing of table fruit . It is in this area of olive production that Summerland Olives has concentrated and excelled. This is evidenced by the numerous awards received over the years for our products at National level competitions.

All our olive products go through a natural, wholesome process which maintains a true olive flavour. We DO NOT USE caustic soda or any other chemicals to process the fruit.

From the outset Summerland Olives had choosen to process olives in this time honoured and natural way, without the use of chemicals to speed up the de-bittering of the olive. This natural process results in a superiour clean olive flavour which is not masked or tainted by soapy residues associated with chemically processed olives. Production staff have conducted extended study tours of Australia's leading table olive producers and have travelled to Italy and Sicily to gain first hand knowledge from some of these countries leading processors of table olives.

Our vision is to produce and promote high quality pickled olives and value added olive products in the Summerland Region of New South Wales in particular, and in Australia in general.