ST Group Food Industries scales up its business amid pandemic
Worst may be over as the group's Australia and New Zealand core markets see a pickup in business activity as lockdown measures ease.
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EVEN as the food and beverage industry reels from the pandemic, ST Group Food Industries is on track to open eight new food outlets by year end, and is hunting for more new sites amid a softening rental market.
The company, headquartered in Melbourne, owns exclusive franchise and licence rights to brands like PappaRich, NeNe Chicken, Hokkaido Baked Cheese Tart, Gong Cha, Ippudo, Go Noodle House and i Darts for Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Malaysia. It also owns two Japanese dessert brand concepts Pafu and Kurimu.
Chief executive officer Saw Tat Ghee first dipped his toes in the F&B industry when he was just a student at the University of Melbourne, where he rented a single unit at the university's union house to sell beverages.
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