VKA Australia, since 1998. Southport, Queensland.
Our story,
since 1998.
VKA Australia is part of VKA, a multinational flavour house with sites in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia, creating flavours since 1971. Our Australian bench is in Southport, Queensland.
We will read it inside one business day. No contract to start a conversation.
‘The flavour that lands here has to be built here, by the people who eat it.’
Our Story
VKA Australia, since 1998. Our bench is in Southport.
In 1998, VKA Australia began operating.
What founder Victor Koh found in Australia surprised him. He'd visit a Queensland orchard and the fruit on the branch was better than the fruit he'd ever worked with. A Tasmanian mountain pepperberry on the bench was as serious a sensory note as anything he'd evaluated in his career. A macadamia farmer was treating his crop like a winemaker. Australians, he saw, ate the way they lived. Close to the source, close to the season, and unforgiving of anything that wasn't right.
He understood it immediately. Australia appreciates naturals at a resolution he hadn't met in any other market. He decided the bench had to be in Australia, the team had to be Australian, and the sourcing had to come from Australian land wherever it could. He founded VKA Australia. Today the bench is in Southport, Queensland, backed by the VKA group's analytical labs and trained sensory panel.
Milestones
How the work got to Southport.
VKA Australia began operating in 1998, developing custom flavours for food and drink makers in Australia and New Zealand. Our bench is in Southport.
1998
VKA Australia began operating.
VKA Australia began operating in 1998, developing flavours for makers in Australia and New Zealand.
2018
Sharper formulation tools.
Investment in VKA's formulation tools and prototyping.
Today
An Australian flavour house.
VKA Australia operates from Southport, Queensland. Australian flavour since 1998, custom flavours for food and beverage makers across Australia and New Zealand.
Bring us a brief
The bench is in Southport. Bring us a brief.
New product or reformulation, our Australian team is ready when you are. Send what you have, even rough. We will read it inside one business day and tell you what we would do next. No contract to start a conversation.
Read inside one business day. No contract to start.