Toast The Locals connects online shoppers who want to buy unique Australian made eats, drinks and eco-living productswith the people who make them. They are participating in the growing embracing of digital platforms, by offering visitors to their national marketplace the opportunity to delight their tastebuds and impress friends, like never before.
Toast the locals story begins in 2009, when the founder Angela Leske was working as a marketing strategist. She saw iconic and locally-made branded products being de-listed from retail supermarket shelves across Australia, because someone making decisions about shelf space, did not care about small Australian brands and their uniqueness. Using the digital means available Angela has grown Toast The Locals into one of Australia’s leading ‘local produce’ e-commerce marketplaces.
Angela said, when interviewed by Metro Cities Media, “I decided to do something about local producers who are the fabric of the Australian economybeing removed from the shelves of Australia’s retail supermarket giants. As a person whose family history is firmly embedded in pioneering farming and agriculture in South Australia and the iconic Barossa Valley, I have a special affinity with, and connection to rural and regional Australia and a deep understanding of the many challenges faced by farmers, producers of local foods, beverages and small business. It is great to read that digital commerce is growing so rapidly in Australia and to be a part of this growth”.
Australian Post in their recent 2023 Australian Online Shopping Report detail consumer buying behaviour and trends, providing insights into the current and future state of e-commerce. The report uses information from a range of sources including delivery data from the Australia Post Group. In the report they detail the online share of the $63.8bn retail spend was up 18.1% on the previous 12-month period.
You can read the Australian Post Report by clicking on the link here:
https://auspost.com.au/content/dam/auspost_corp/media/documents/ecommerce-industry-report-2023.pdf
Toast The Locals is proudly a nationwide online marketplace in Australia and business, founded and run by Angela and her small team. They are unashamedly all about helping small, passionate Australian food, beverage and eco-living producers to find new channels to the consumer market. She commented, “It’s been quite a journey to get here since the original idea, but here we are, operating nationally from Adelaide, South Australia and growing a community of ‘Toasties’ all over the country who want to get behind and support our local Aussie producers, just as we do.”
Toast The Locals mission is to be the national connect point, between the people who love to find and consume great locally made foods, drinks and eco-friendly products and the amazing Australians who make them. . Through their passion and commitment to quality and craftsmanship we all have the opportunity to source and consume premium, locally made products and the chance to support our economy. Toast The Locals generous profit-sharing model ensures that Aussie producers get the bulk of the profits back into their pockets, when they are shopped with directly online via Toast The Locals marketplace.
About Toast The Locals
Toast The Locals connects the people who want to buy unique Australian made eats, drinks and eco-living products with the people who make them. They promote that it’s time to delight tastebuds and impress friends, while also getting behind and supporting our small Australian owned and operated businesses
Toast The Locals HQ have been curating unique combinations of locally made products into corporate gourmet hamper boxes for over two years now. They custom create to order, combining gorgeous shelf stable foods wines, gins, beer, and eco-friendly gifts and more, doing the creative thinking for each client to their specified budget, else unique because they know that people all over Australia love to experience new and unique produce made by our locals.
Toast The Locals online marketplace shares ‘top picks’ and enables customers to source and shop for a multitude of products, with the ability to order from many producers in a single shopping transaction. Each producer ships their order straight to the customer’s door, which helps tocut down on food miles and creates a direct distribution pathway. This is better for the planet and better for our small Australian producers.
Learn more about the unique offerings on Toast The Locals by visiting their marketplace here: https://www.toastthelocals.com.au
Angela Leske
Toast The Locals
642a Seaview Road Grange SA Australia 5022
+61 1300 791683