Joe Byrne Joe Byrne
“The Pork Pioneer”
Managing Director The Sweet Pork Company Pty Ltd



We are pleased to announce that a couple of months back we had the honour of being inducted into “The (Sydney) Magazine” (Sydney Morning Herald) Food Hall of Fame. To read more about this prestigious award click here. This award comes on top of the Vogue Entertaining and Travel / Audi Produce Award 2005, “from the paddock” section. Our product was described as “the best meat of any species” in Australia for 2005.
Since we wrote our last newsletter we have grown our markets into Townsville, Mackay, and Rockhampton. These outlets appear under the butcher link on this website. They and we will appreciate your ongoing support. You will find that these butchers supply high quality meats of all species, that’s why we choose them to represent our product. You can be confident that a Sweet Pork Butcher is a top butcher!

Those patient Melbournians who continue to visit our site in the hope of finding some local suppliers will finally have their patience rewarded early in 2010. Please contact us if you think you think your local butcher would be willing to talk with us. We have appointed a first class distributor in Melbourne who will be facilitating deliveries in the Melbourne metropolitan area and beyond, so if you are in regional Victoria, please contact us also. Avail yourself of our freecall number 180073 6606 and we will do our best to cater for you needs. We now have a limited number of Melbourne restaurants serving the renowned Bangalow Sweet Pork®

I don’t think it will be too long before we can launch into South Australia, so people there should endeavour to keep in touch as well.

Now we appear to have the toothpaste back in the tube I will endeavour to do a news letter around every three months or more frequently if we have newsworthy events to report. If your have any noteworthy content please let me know, and we may be able to include it. Thank you. Welcome back on board

When buying your pork please remember there are a few brands out there in consumer land with names similar to our registered brand. Some of these are: Bangalow Pork and the Original Bangalow Pork. We do not have any association with these brands. We have three trade marks registered with The Australian Trade Mark Authority and they are:

Sweet Pork Bangalow Sweet Pork

The Sweet Pork Company commenced trading on 19th October 1999 and we believe that we have been marketing the highest eating quality pork (with a registered trade mark) - longer than any of our competitors. Bangalow Sweet Pork® is the name you can rely on!

If you purchase any skin-on cuts of Bangalow Sweet Pork®, fresh or processed, you will be able to identify them, as we roller brand all our carcases with the name “Bangalow Sweet Pork”

For those of you who may have thought we had disappeared please be advised that we are still very much alive and well. The last few years have brought many a challenge, with flawed government policy on imports, a very strong A$, serious droughts, Swine Flu and the Global Financial Crisis, all presenting some difficulties, however we have remained at our post and now predict better years from 2010 into the future.

I think it is important to note here that H1N1 is not a pig virus but a human virus that has transferred to pigs. I think you all know that the media usually does not let the facts get in the way of a good headline. Remember SARS and Bird Flu? There is no risk of contracting H1N1 from eating pork. Bangalow Sweet Pork® is very particular about how our pigs are raised, and our pig producers maintain strict quarantine protocols.

We have lived through droughts before, plenty of times, but unprecedented subsidised import levels of pork have resulted in a large number of Australian independent producers exiting the industry. This has created the largest shortage of pigs that I have seen in more than three decades in this industry. We are now on top of that issue (the shortage of supply) and will expand our market area in 2010.

We want to thank you for your past and ongoing support, and trust that you will be delighted at the prospect of being able to purchase our renowned Bangalow Sweet Pork well into the future.

Hoping you have a very Merry Christmas, a happy and prosperous New Year, and thoroughly enjoy your Sweet Pork Christmas Ham!

Best regards

Joe