转载由SKS Kosher青岛办公室,希望能帮到出口到澳大利亚的工厂。 NEWs (march 12, 2009) Buy kosher, buy Australian ACCORDING to Kosher Australia general manager Yankel Wajsbort, national kosher retailers hurt local kosher production and drive up the cost of keeping kosher by importing too many goods to stock their shelves. Despite the recent spike in the price of imported goods from the United States and Israel -– largely due to rising production costs and a low Australian dollar -– Wajsbort said some kosher retailers continued to depend on imported products for their stock “to maximise sales”. “They can pretty much charge as much as they feel,” he said. “If they believe they can make more by importing products ... obviously they will do that because they’re there to make a buck.” But consumers end up losing out, he said. “With a sole dependence on imported products, the impression is that kosher food is entirely imported and expensive,” he said. “If people can’t afford it and can’t keep kosher, that’s a serious concern.” Relying on imports also hurts kosher production in Australia. “Local manufacturers want to see their products move in the kosher market,” he said. In a bid to promote local brands, Kosher Australia recently released its guide for the year, listing mostly local brands. Ultimately, there’s “no real burning need” to buy imported products, Wajsbort said. “We’re saying go buy Uncle Toby’s or Golden Circle ... just your run-of-the-mill products that are produced for the general market and also happen to be fully kosher ... at a local price.” But some kosher retailers say they lean towards imported goods because it’s a better deal. “We go for the imported brands because we can get them cheaper, and we can be competitive with Coles and Safeway,” said Alex Spitalnic, owner of Melbourne’s Alex’s Kosher and Continental Mart in Caulfield South. He cited prices of Golden Circle juices as an example. “Coles had them out at $2.50 at one stage, and we’ve got to pay wholesale $2.87. We’ve got to pay more than what they sell them for. We just don’t have the buying power,” he said. About 85-90 per cent of his stock is imported, but Spitalnic doesn’t believe it is the cause behind local manufacturers not going kosher. “A lot of manufacturers don’t want to pay the kosher certification price,” he said. David Krinsky, owner of Sydney’s Krinsky’s Kosher Foods in Bondi, said he supported the local market whenever possible. “But the local market is a limited market,” he said, especially around Pesach time. While customers like the idea of supporting local brands, he added, many also want to put their money behind Israel. “Even if an Israeli product is more, some people will prefer to support Israel. [You do] have some customers going both ways,” he said. But with the recent import hikes -– with prices reportedly jumping by as much as 30 per cent -– the time may be ripe for local manufacturers to make their mark on the market, he said. “We’re 100 per cent open to using local manufacturers,” Krinsky said.
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