Australian Vegan Business

NOTE: While festivals feature vegan food and products, organisations taking part may not be vegan or advocate measures that conflict with being vegan.

1. Saturday 12 March 2011, 10am-6pm

Green Earth Day – Brisbane

2. Sunday 1 May 2011, 10am-4pm

VeganExpo – Sydney

3. Sunday 16 October 2011, 10am-4pm

Living Green Festival – Canberra

4. Sunday 30 October 2011, 10am-5pm

Cruelty Free Living Festival – Sydney

5. Saturday 5 November 2011, 10am-4pm

Cruelty Free Festival – Perth

6. Sunday 6 November 2011, 10am-5pm

World Vegan Day – Melbourne

7. Sunday 6 November 2011, 12pm-7pm

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8. Sunday 13 November 2011, 10am-5pm

Vegan Festival – Adelaide

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Info: East End Eco offer a range of products from food and toiletries to recycled sunglasses and locally made toaster tongs. If it’s not practical to go into their store, you can contact them by phone or email to arrange an order.

Address: 28A Queen Street, Fremantle, Western Australia 6160

Phone: (08) 9335 7039

Email: eastendeco (at) westnet (dot) com (dot) au

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Contact: Nelly Uhlenkott – owner

Info: Nelly’s Vegan Bakery sell baked goods such as brownies, cupcakes, and muffins, available at locations in Melbourne (see website for details). They also do special orders and cater for events such as business meetings and parties.

Phone/SMS: 0401 862 392

Email: veganbakery at me.com

Click on the image at to go to Nelly’s website.

NOTE: Nelly’s Vegan Bakery is for sale. If you’re interested, please click on this link to see an ad for it.

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Contact: Deb Kantor – owner

Info: Mister Nice Guy bakes organic, fair trade cupcakes every day. They offer a wide variety of flavours, with new varieties added monthly. Delivery within 5 kilometres of the Melbourne CBD is free. Mister Nice Guy also caters for events and will supply cupcakes to stores.

Phone: 0405 001 442 or 0424 930 284

Email: hello at misterniceguy.com.au

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Contact: Lee Coates – owner

Info: As of April 2011, Cruelty Free Super is Australia’s only vegan superannuation fund. Unlike other ‘ethical’ super funds that are still involved in animal industries, Cruelty Free Super not only seeks to avoid investing in companies that exploit animals, but also those that foster poor conditions for workers and that damange the earth.

Address: GPO Box 263, Sydney NSW 2001

Phone – local call cost: 1300 366 657. Sydney: (02) 835 44999.

Email: info at crueltyfreesuper.com.au

Click on the logo at the top of this entry to go to Cruelty Free Super’s website.

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Contact: Cassandra Dunn – owner

Info: An online store based in Brisbane that sells goods such as food, household and personal products. Items include dairy free cheese, candles, cat and dog food, all purpose cleaners, toothpaste and vitamins. The store guarantees products don’t contain animal ingredients.

Email: info at theveganstore.com.au

Click on the logo to go to The Vegan Store website.

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Contact: Carol Slater

Info: Carol offers handmade, eco friendly wedding albums that she says are currently the only environmentally friendly flushmount albums in the world. Each book is assembled without the use of large machines, by hand, with hemp cover and endpaper options selected for durability, sustainability, minimal environmental impact, and beauty. According to Carol, albums are also the only environmentally friendly albums currently available with completely archival quality papers, inks, and binding materials.

Carol is also available for portraits and events.

Her studio is based in Brisbane but she’s happy to accommodate destination weddings and will offset her flight.

Phone: (07) 3423 0096          Mobile: 0414 850 220

Email: carol@c-s-p.com.au

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Samudra in southwest WA is looking for a vegan chef with restaurant experience to join their expanding team.

If you’re motivated and want to work in a healthy environment, they’d like to hear from you.

Samudra has a yoga school on site as well as some of the best surf spots in the country.

Contact: Brendan

Email: brendon at samudra dot com dot au

Website: http://www.samudra.com.au

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From Saturday 16 to Monday 18 October, Alexis and Ostii will be running a Yoga and Wholefood Vegan Cooking Retreat at the Hepburn Retreat Centre (formerly Continental House).

Learn ways of cooking grains, pulses and vegetables, in groups of no more than 8 people.

There will be one or two yoga classes each day and meals will be made of food people cook.

You can find out more and register at the Hepburn Retreat Centre site.

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Greetings. Looking for an experienced vegan business owner/consultant to start a vegan cafe/bakery/store in China or Dubai.

Contact: Gope

Email: fivment@yahoo.com

Website: http://www.avohl.com

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