Celebrating Australian Made — series launch

Today our third Celebrating Australian Made editorial series begins, coinciding with Australian Made Week 2023 (May 15 – 21.) 

According to the Australian Made Campaign, the first and second Australian Made Week campaigns were huge successes, with a recorded 71.2 per cent and 68.8 per cent of those polled lifting their efforts to prioritise purchases of local products.

Today, of course, is the launch of the third Australian Made Week, a celebration of goods made here, their makers, and the value of supporting them.

“Even a small change to people’s shopping habits can make a huge difference, with Roy Morgan research showing that if every household spent an additional $10 a week on Australian Made products, it would inject an extra $4.8 billion into the economy each year and create up to 9,500 new jobs,” said Australian Made’s Chief Executive Ben Lazzaro last week.

Lazzaro’s organisation claims a sharp spike in licensees since 2020, coinciding with the well-documented increase in appreciation for manufacturers.

This year, as with the previous two, Australian Made has agreed to partner with @AuManufacturing as part of Australian Made Week.   

To mark the occasion, as with 2022 and 2021, we will be profiling the contributions of manufacturers and telling their stories.

Last time around we promised a celebration of everything from the boutique to the billion-dollar.

This time around we will again aim to represent something of the diversity within manufacturing, though with more emphasis on the boutique side than last time. 

Our thanks to the Australian Made Campaign Limited, the licensor of the Australian Made logo, for supporting this two-week editorial series.

The famous Australian Made, Australian Grown (AMAG) logo is the true mark of Aussie authenticity. It’s Australia’s most trusted, recognised and widely used country of origin symbol, and is underpinned by a third-party accreditation system, which ensures products that carry the logo are certified as ‘genuinely Australian’.

For more information on using the logo, visit this link.

Picture: credit www.instagram.com/theoriginalfabriccomb

Further reading

NEW RESEARCH SHOWS AUSTRALIAN SUPPORT FOR MANUFACTURING CLIMBED SINCE 2019

FROM THE BOUTIQUE TO THE BILLION-DOLLAR – IT’S TIME TO CELEBRATE AUSTRALIAN MADE