Tomatoes

The Costa Tomato Category supplies consumers with fresh and flavoursome vine-ripened Australian tomatoes all year round.

We supply premium glasshouse tomatoes across the snacking, specialty, cocktail and large truss segments, via all major and independent supermarkets and green grocers.

At Costa we listen to our consumers and retailers, and together we respond to the emerging trends and changing needs of the market. We are constantly looking to innovate in all areas of protected cropping technologies with the aim of creating a more sustainable environment for our fruit, our people and the communities that we serve.

Our facility

Our tomatoes are grown in one of Australia’s largest and most advanced glasshouse facilities, located in the New South Wales town of Guyra. Our glasshouses are perfectly situated to harness the best growing conditions nature can offer thanks to Guyra’s unique micro climate.

We also grow our tomatoes in South Australia, Tasmania, Queensland and Western Australia through our grower alliance partners, to provide a national footprint and consistent 52-week supply to our customers.

In total, we have 40 hectares of glasshouses and a 2.5 hectare nursery and at peak production have 1.5 million plants.

Our state-of-the-art glasshouse technology and growth program puts Costa Tomatoes at the forefront of innovation in ecologically sustainable practices and sets us apart in the fruit and vegetable industry.

Our team

It takes a talented, experienced and passionate team to grow and sell our beautiful produce; enabling us to offer a range of technical, professional and labouring opportunities all year round:

Growing – managers, supervisors, new product development
Agronomy and plant health
Packing, supply and despatch
Quality assurance and quality control
Maintenance
Human resources and safety
Administration and stores
Management
General labouring – crop work, picking, packing, nursery propagation
Sales and marketing (located in Ravenhall VIC)
Finance (located in Ravenhall VIC)

Career development opportunities are available throughout the Tomato Category and are dependent on employee skills, area of expertise and individual employee career development needs.

We believe in supporting and developing our people and providing long-term career opportunities through a range of activities including on the job experience, scholarships, graduate programs, traineeships, apprenticeships, mentoring and internal and external education.

General labouring roles

Crop work, picking, packing and nursery propagation positions are available all year, however our workforce is at its peak over the summer and autumn period. Our hard working crew consists of locals, university students, working holiday makers and Pacific Island Seasonal Workers.

Our products

We grow naturally vine ripened Australian Grown glasshouse tomatoes all year round for Australians to enjoy. Our growing region in the heart of the NSW Northern Tablelands has the most light days enabling us to grow all year round. We grow a range of deliciously flavoursome snacking tomatoes varieties including red, brown, yellow, green and gold, specialty cocktail, large truss and now, glasshouse grown gourmet that are supplied to all major retail, independent supermarkets and green grocers.

These include:

Our exclusive Perino™ naturally sweeter snacking tomato range, cocktail truss and large truss tomatoes available at Coles.
Sweet Berry truss, cocktail truss tomatoes and large truss tomatoes available at Woolworths.
Our Bellino snacking range, cocktail truss and large truss tomatoes available at ALDI.
Blush range of snacking, cocktail and large truss tomatoes can be found at independent supermarkets and green grocers nationally.

Find out more about our naturally sweeter Perino tomatoes.

Where we grow

Want to know more about where we grow? Take a look at our Harvest Trail and Locations or contact us.

Our community

For a business such as ours to be successful in a regional area, it is important to work cooperatively and productively with the local community. Aside from providing employment and economic benefit, we also aim to actively supporting the social fabric of the community via our Community Engagement program. To date this has included a range of support for local sporting groups, disadvantaged members of the community, local schools and community organisations and events in the region.

We particularly recognise the importance of supporting education in the area and encouraging local young people to pursue a career in the field of agriculture. In recent years we have established a Tertiary Scholarship targeting local Year 12 school students commencing university, an annual Graduate Grower program and a number of apprenticeships/traineeships in our key business areas.

From 2020, a new Scholarship will commence to provide recognition and financial assistance to an outstanding undergraduate or Masters student enrolled at the University of New England seeking a career in horticulture.