The Sanitarium Health Food Company is a food company in Australia and New Zealand that produces a large range of breakfast cereals as well as a range of vegetarian products. Founded in 1898, its flagship product Weet-Bix is a top seller in the Australian and New Zealand breakfast cereal market. Sanitarium is wholly owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Sanitarium has factories in many locations across Australia and New Zealand, some of these...
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The Sanitarium Health Food Company is a food company in Australia and New Zealand that produces a large range of breakfast cereals as well as a range of vegetarian products. Founded in 1898, its flagship product Weet-Bix is a top seller in the Australian and New Zealand breakfast cereal market. Sanitarium is wholly owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Sanitarium has factories in many locations across Australia and New Zealand, some of these include, Berkeley Vale, Cooranbong, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Christchurch and Auckland. A factory was operating in Palmerston North NZ, but was closed down in the late 1990's.
Officially formed in 1898, the process of forming a health food company had been in discussions amongst Seventh-day Adventists in Australia for a number of years. To help the company get started, a baker by the name of Edward Halsey was called out from the United States, arriving in Sydney on November 8, 1897.
Some older names, no longer produced:
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