In the late 1970’s two grandmothers set off on a camping trip to a Queensland island and encountered for the first time supermarket gravy powders as part of their evening meal, having always been scratch cooks they were really disappointed by how bland and flavourless they were so they decided when they got home they would set about to create a better option based purely on quality ingredients with flavour being the focus, not cost of production, with this Gourmet Granny’s was born.
The Gourmet Granny’s brand grew from a handful of supportive local butchers in Sydney’s North Shore to rapidly spread throughout the Sydney metro, then regional areas. Many successful years passed then in 2013, with the Granny’s wanting to move into a different phase of life they passed the baton to Brendan & Louise, the current custodians of the brand.
Brendan’s background in brand development, sales and marketing was the perfect match for this still fledgling brand to be taken to the next level. Louise and their 3 daughters were engaged in packing orders, dealing with customers directly and attending major gourmet grocery trade shows to help build the brand profile and sample the product to the masses that attended.
After spending time expanding the retailer base for a few years, the Gourmet Granny’s brand received a major facelift in 2018, this ignited the brand to be sold Australia wide and it quickly grew from 5 products to 8, then 9. Along came COVID and because so many consumers reverted from their supermarkets to their local butchers, they now came into contact for the first time with Gourmet Granny’s products. Sales boomed and more new products followed.
Fast forward a few more years and 2023 saw another major facelift for the brand and a move to all products being Gluten Free and the introduction of the first Liquid Heat n Eat products to the range. These have all proven to be very successful thanks to our fiercely local customer base and our distributor and retailer partners supporting our family business. These days our eldest daughter Laura runs the business and Brendan & Louise focus their energy on bringing fabulous new products into the Gourmet Granny’s portfolio year after year.
We just love the regular unsolicited fabulous reviews on our website, it makes us strive harder to continue the Granny’s legacy of great quality and great food, made with love... Today we have 24 products across 3 gourmet food categories and over 2,000 butcher shops and other independent retailers "in the family", turning customers into raving fans of our products. The brand continues to represent good old fashioned values and quality homestyle food and continues to grow from strength to strength.
We trust you enjoy our range of Sauces, Gravy Mixes and Liquid Stocks, please continue to leave your feedback and let us know what you would like to see next from the brand. Keep an eye out in stores for our current major new launch into Stir-Fry Sauces / Marinades. 4 new and exciting products that we are sure that you are going to love. Thank you again for supporting our family business which is proudly 100% Australian Owned and Made products...Enjoy :)
