Delicious Costa Mushrooms burgers served up free in support of the Mernda Rail open day!
Costa Mushroom category joins the Mernda railway community open day serving delicious and nutritious vegetarian mushroom burgers. Families and residents of all ages showed up to test the new trains in preparation for the official opening on Sunday 26th August. Despite the harsh weather, the rain and winds didn’t keep the people away! Celebrating the […]
Costa Berry Category wins award for professional development
The Costa Berry Category’s commitment to providing ongoing training and development for its staff has been recognised at the annual Sunny’s Business Awards, run by the Coffs Harbour Chamber of Commerce. The Costa Berry Category was the recipient of the award for Professional Development and Staff Training, which recognises businesses that provide ongoing training to […]
A berry good start to the day
Our berry team at Corindi on the North Coast of New South Wales has engaged with a local high school to provide students with access to a healthy and nutritious breakfast. The Orara High School’s Breakfast Club provides meals to around 40 students a day and Costa supports the program, providing complementary fresh berries on […]
CONSUMER ALERT – FOOD RECALL
Following discovery of damage to plastic rollers on a packaging line at its Victorian mushroom production facility, the Costa Mushroom category has issued a consumer alert advising that some punnets of sliced mushrooms could contain large pieces of white plastic, and that the product is being recalled. Sliced mushrooms sold in plastic bags are not […]
Costa raises funds for Tolga State School in Great Wheelbarrow Race
Congratulations to the Costa Berries Far North Queensland team who recently took part in the 140km Great Wheelbarrow Race, raising more than $4,000 for the Tolga State School. The race honours the pioneers who pushed their wheelbarrows full of possessions from the coast to the Atherton Tablelands in the Gold Rush era. Regional Farm Manager […]
Costa supports reading and literacy at St Mary’s Parish Primary School in Whittlesea, Victoria
Costa’s mushroom farm located at Mernda in the northern suburbs of Melbourne enjoys supporting its local community through developing relationships with local schools in the City of Whittlesea. One of these schools is St Mary’s Parish Primary School, a semi-rural school situated on eight acres of land. Last year, Costa donated two truckloads (40 cubic […]
Costa wins Business Excellence Award for Agriculture, Food & Beverage at the 25th Annual AustCham Westpac Australia-China Business Awards
Overnight in Shanghai, China (17 May 2018), Costa Group was announced as the winner of the Business Excellence Award for Agriculture, Food & Beverageat the prestigious 25th Annual AustCham Westpac Australia-China Business Awards. Mr Peter McPherson, Costa Group General Manager International accepted the award on behalf of Costa and told the assembled audience of local […]
New Costa Distribution Centre growing jobs in the North West of Tasmania
MORE than 100 new full-time equivalent jobs are on track to be created by September this year, following the opening of the $7.1 million expansion of the Costa Distribution Centre in East Devonport. The expanded and upgraded Distribution Centre (DC), which started operations late last year in time for the summer berry harvest, was formally […]
Costa supports FOODBANK in its ‘Rumbling Tummies’ campaign
On 15th April, Foodbank released its inaugural research report on the prevalence of child hunger in Australia. Entitled ‘Rumbling Tummies’, the research used data collated from more than a thousand parents with children under the age of 15 and found that the major factor driving the growing need for hunger relief in Australia is the rising […]
Costa Group announced as a finalist in 25th Annual AustCham Westpac Australia-China Business Awards
Costa Group has been announced as a finalist in the prestigious 25th Annual AustCham Westpac Australia-China Business Awards. Nominated for the Business Excellence Award for Agriculture, Food & Beverage, Costa has been recognised for its operations in China with its focus on the development of large scale berry fruit (blueberries, raspberries, blackberries) farms in Honghe […]