
24th December 2011: Hello everyone! It's Christmas Eve and we're taking a few minutes away from family and friends to wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas and a happy and safe New Year.
All our Peanut Vans at Kingaroy, Childers and Aussie World on the Sunshine Coast will be
closed on Christmas Day. But otherwise we'll be open every other day of the Festive Season on our normal hours:
8:30am to
5:00pm at
Kingaroy and
Childers and
9:00am to
4:00pm at
Aussie World.
Our central offices and processing plant in Kingaroy, though, will be closed from the
24th December 2011 through to
January 3rd 2012. So if you want to call us during this time, please phone us on
(07) 4163-6444 or
1300 81 82 83 (or email us at
info@peanutvan.com.au) and leave a message. We'll be randomly logging over the break to check messages and emails and we'll get back to you as soon as we possibly can.
We'll also be taking a break from the many
markets we attend in January 2012. But we'll be back as usual from February onwards.
Finally, we'd like to
sincerely thank you for your support over the last 12 months. As we've mentioned more than once this year, the 2011 Queensland floods and Cyclone Yasi helped produce the
second lowest peanut harvest on record.
And because we insist on using
100% Australian peanuts (
and always have!) because we know they're
the best in the world, this meant that we ran out of several stock lines during the course of the year.
However - like peanut farmers everywhere - right now we have our fingers and toes crossed for a return to a normal harvest in the year ahead. And as soon as our supplies get back to normal all our current out of stocks will disappear too.
We're not the only people to have had the problem either! Just before Christmas Australian entrepreneur
Dick Smith came to Kingaroy to find out what the situation would be like for his
Dick Smith Peanut Butter line (which is currently off supermarket shelves due to supply problems, since Dick also uses 100% Australian peanuts too).
He dropped in to see local peanut farmers, us and the Peanut Company Of Australia and his visit was extensively covered by the media. If you missed it, you can see
A Current Affair's report
by clicking here.
Photo: Yes, our clever cameraman caught Santa and his helpers preparing Christmas hampers at The Peanut Van's factory in Kingaroy last week (left to right): Olivia, Wendy, Rob and Chris Patch. Merry Christmas!