Pie Face to grace SA convenience stores

Pastry manufacturer and retailer, Pie Face, has signed a deal with that will see it supply 80 South Australian convenience stores with a range of its hot pastry products.

The company, which currently operates 87 of its own stores across Australia, New Zealand and the US, signed the 80 store deal with On The Run's operator, Peregrine Corporation.

Pie Face says its recently commissioned 3,000sqm HCAPP accredited Central Kitchen Facility in Rosehill Sydney offered it ample capacity to handle the new business.

Products are made from scratch in the facility and then distributed to stores where they are baked fresh for customers.

Initially, On The Run will carry a core range of nine products including meat pies, sausage rolls and some new products developed specifically for its customers, and it may expand into additional lines.

According to Pie Face, the two year deal is expected to result in initial unit volumes exceeding one million units per annum.

“Pie Face is very pleased to have an agreement with leading convenience operator, On The Run that introduces our products to South Australian consumers,” Andrew Lyme, commercial manager at Pie Face said.

“The company has been focussed on the supply chain side of business in an effort to increase production efficiencies and allow the business to become a lower cost, premium bakery supplier to our national retail network.

“These types of value-add licensing and supply deals should enable the company to reach these goals sooner. We are hopeful of announcing similar types of win/win arrangements during 2014,” Lyme said.