Press and media

Media contact: corporate@thegourmetpantry.com.au. This is our media inbox, for samples, interviews, images and fact checks. We aim to reply to media enquiries within one business day, Monday to Friday.

This page holds the facts a journalist needs to write about The Gourmet Pantry without waiting on us first. If what you need is not here, the address above is the fastest way to get it. The facts below were last reviewed on 29 August 2026.

Who we are

The Gourmet Pantry is an Australian online gourmet food and gift hamper retailer based in Corio, Victoria, on the northern edge of Geelong. Hampers have been hand-packed in Geelong since 2019. The business is the consumer retail arm of Gourmet & Lifestyle Brands, an Australian gourmet food distributor, which is why the shelves carry brands most retailers here cannot get: The Gourmet Pantry is the Australian stockist of Ottolenghi, Lakrids by Bülow, Candy Kittens, Belazu, Valley Produce Co and the Mistletoe & Merry Christmas cracker range.

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Fast facts

• Name: The Gourmet Pantry, written in full, never shortened.
• Based: Corio, Victoria, in Geelong. Orders are packed and dispatched from the Corio warehouse. There is no public shopfront.
• Hand-packing hampers in Geelong since: 2019.
• Ownership: Australian owned.
• Range: more than 500 products from more than 50 food, drink and homewares brands.
• Gift hamper prices: $59.95 to $299.95.
• Christmas bon bons and crackers: $6.95 to $59.95.
• Delivery: Australia-wide, tracked with Australia Post. Free standard delivery on hampers over $100.
• Dispatch: orders placed before 12pm on a weekday are dispatched the same day from our Corio, VIC warehouse, tracked with Australia Post.
• Dietary ranges: gluten free, vegan and alcohol-free hampers are stocked all year.

Prices were last checked in August 2026 and they move with the range. Confirm any figure on the product page before you publish, or email us and we will confirm it for you.

What media can get from us

• Product samples for editorial consideration. Tell us the story and the deadline and we will send what fits it. If you are working to a price point, say so, because the answer is usually a different product.
• High-resolution product photography on request. Product shots on white, and contents-out flat lays for the cracker and bon bon range. Sent by email, with no form and no sign-up. You may use our images in editorial coverage with a credit to The Gourmet Pantry. Commercial and advertising use needs our written permission first.
• Expert comment and interviews from the people named below, on the record, under their real titles.
• Fact checks. Send us the sentence and we will tell you whether it is right.

Who you can speak to

• Andrew Richards, Managing Director. The business, gourmet food distribution in Australia, how a hamper range gets built and priced.
• Emily Patrikakos, Brand Executive. The brands we import, Christmas crackers and bon bons, and the artisan against industrial question.
• Jodie Smith, Product and Hamper Manager. What Australians actually put in a hamper, seasonal ranges, food and drink pairing.
• Arthur Hodgson, Hamper Packing Manager. Packing at Christmas volume, how much food per person, and how food travels in an Australian summer.
• Sarah Lewis, Corporate Sales Manager. Corporate and staff gifting, and the $300 fringe benefits tax minor benefits threshold. General information only: we sell hampers, we are not registered tax agents, and we will always point your readers to their own accountant.

Subjects we can talk about

• Christmas crackers and bon bons: how they are made, what is inside them, and how much of it ends up in the bin.
• Hamper packing and delivery logistics at Christmas volume.
• Australian Christmas food and entertaining habits, including how far ahead people buy.
• Corporate and workplace gifting, including what counts as a gift rather than entertainment.
• Importing and distributing gourmet food brands into Australia.
• Gluten free, vegan and alcohol-free gifting.

We do not sell ham, pudding, fruit cake or fresh food, so we are not the right source on any of those.

The ranges we are asked about most

• Christmas bon bons and crackers, including the Mistletoe and Merry range, handcrafted rather than mass produced, $6.95 to $59.95.
• The Ottolenghi pantry range, and the Ottolenghi hampers built from it.
• Gift hampers across the price range, and Christmas hampers in season.
• Corporate gifting, which is an account-managed, quoted service rather than a bulk checkout.

Before you file

Two small things that save a correction later: the business is The Gourmet Pantry, written in full, and the town is Corio, in Geelong, Victoria, not Melbourne. Email corporate@thegourmetpantry.com.au and we will confirm anything on this page.