Don't Be A Bunny! Hop In Fast And Grab One (or More) Of Our Great Easter Specials! 15th March 2012: Hello everyone! Easter is coming up on Friday 6th April and we always like to give our customers a special at Easter time to add to the holiday feel. So we put on our thinking caps and we think we've come up with three really great offers to brighten your Easter celebrations this year. From today until Good Friday (or earlier, if we sell out) we're discounting our 1kg packs of Sweet & Salty, Horseradish (ie Wasabi) and Parmesan flavoured peanuts from $18.20 to $16.20 - which is about 9% off our normally heavily discounted retail price for these kilogram mega-packs (and more than 50% off what you'd normally pay for 10 x 100gm packs!) These specials are available right now through our secure online ordering system and through any of our retail outlets at Kingaroy, Childers and Aussie World on the Sunshine Coast. You can also order them by phoning us on 1300 81-82-83 or in person at any of the markets we attend around south-east Queensland. One word of warning, though: these are three very popular lines. So if this special tickles your fancy please order quickly to avoid disappointment. While the peanut supply issues that have affected us for the last year are slowly getting fixed, 100% all-Australian peanuts (the only kind of peanuts we stock) are still scarcer than we'd like them to be. Happy Easter!

Dick Smith Joins The Fight To Save The Aussie Peanut Industry 16th January 2012: Hello everyone - Happy New Year! Now here's an important story that we held back over the Festive Season because most of you were on holidays. But it's one we'd like to share with you now that the the workaday world is getting back to normal: Back in mid-December last year famous Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith and a huge media scrum paid a flying visit to Kingaroy to talk with us, peanut farmers and the Peanut Company Of Australia about why Australian peanuts were in such short supply last year. As the media heard (and you may have seen this story on TV) it was because the 2011 floods and cyclones caused the second-worst peanut harvest in Australia's history. Dick Smith produces his own brand of peanut butter and - like us - he's proud that he only uses 100% Australian peanuts in it. So the shortages that hit us last year have hit him too. And right now Dick Smith Foods are finding it almost impossible to put their DIck Smith Peanut Butter on supermarket shelves. However Dick has persuaded Coles Supermarkets to leave the space on the shelves that his peanut butter usually occupies empty until he can restock. And to their everlasting credit, Coles have agreed to this because they recognise not only that all-Australian peanut butter is much better than peanut butter made from imported peanuts, but also that Australian peanut farmers need the support of retailers and consumers in these difficult times if we're going to have a peanut industry in the future. Dick certainly knows how to get a message across in a dramatic, exciting and memorable way and his visit was a real shot in the arm for farmers in our area (who had a very bad 2011) and for peanut farmers everywhere else. And the good news - well, so far anyway - is that it looks like the 2012 harvest will be back to normal and so will everything else in the next few months. Anyway, we'd really like to thank Dick for the visit he paid us and for getting the message out about Aussie peanuts. It's a story that's not often told. But one that we think is certainly worth telling! VIDEOS: You can see the story that A Current Affair ran about Dick's visit on the 19th December 2011 by clicking here; and a follow-up story they ran about Dick's campaign to sell Aussie food products online by clicking here. Photo: Dick Smith and Rob Patch discussed the state of the Australian peanut industry last month when he paid a flying visit to Kingaroy. Dick wanted to get the message out that Australian peanuts are really worth fighting for. And Coles supermarkets agree with him.

New Peanut Allergy Patch Offers Real Hope For Peanut Allergy Sufferers 30th May 2011: In the last 10 years skin patches have been used for everything from stopping smoking hrough to contraception. But now some French researchers think they may found a new use for them: helping people combat peanut allergy. Roughly 0.6% of the population suffer from peanut allergy (not our customers, we should add!) and it can be a terrible allergy to have. But the new patch, developed by two French pediatricians, gradually "educates" the body so it doesn't over-react to peanut exposure. It presents one of the best possible ways of treating a life-threatening reaction to peanuts, they say, and it's currently in human safety trials in Europe and the US. One of the patch's inventors, Dr Pierre-Henri Benhamou, a senior consultant at Saint-Vincent de Paul hospital in Paris, said he envisioned that the patch would be worn daily for several years and would slowly reduce the severity of accidental exposure to peanuts. "The beauty of the patch is that it is absorbed just under the skin and is taken up by the immune system. But because it doesn't go directly into the bloodstream there is no risk of a severe reaction." Dr Benhamou and his colleague, Professor Christophe Dupont, said the patch can also tackle milk allergies. You can read the full story about this exciting new development on the UK's Sunday Mail

Looking For The Peanut Man? Then Come On In To The Peanut Van! 22nd April 2010: You can now reach The Peanut Van on two domains: the well-known peanutvan.com.au that we've had for the last 10 years, and now on peanutman.com.au as well. Why the extra domain? Well, ever since we rolled out our TV ad a little earlier this year (you can see it at right) we've found that some people who've never bought peanuts from us before have been typing "peanut man" into the search engines when they've tried to find our web site. We really appreciate their interest and we're always looking for ways to make things easier and better for our customers. So when we found out that peanutman.com.au was available we purchased that domain too. And that means you should be able to find us by either method in the future!