Since 2002. Southport, Queensland.
Twenty-three years
on the Australian bench.
VKA® Australia is an Australian operation, run by Australians in Southport, Queensland. We have been developing flavours here since 2002.
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
Twenty-three years on the Southport bench.
In 2002, Victor Koh came to Australia.
What he found 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. That year, he founded VK Aromatics Australia in Southport, Queensland. Twenty-three years on, the bench is still there. By Australians. For Australians.
Milestones
How the work got to Southport.
Australia first: the Southport bench in 2002 and twenty-three years of custom flavour work for Aussie and Kiwi makers.
2002
VKA Australia established. Southport bench opens.
VKA Australia opens its bench on the Gold Coast, in Southport, Queensland. The Australian flavour house begins on a site it still works from today: development, applications, and manufacturing under the one roof.
2018
Sharper formulation tools.
Investment in sharper formulation tools and faster prototyping, applied to how Australian briefs move from first read to finished profile in the application kitchen at Southport.
Today
Australia's flavour house.
VKA Australia operates from Southport, Queensland, run by an Australian team. Twenty-three years of Australian flavour, 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.