Nomad Feasts Pty Ltd

My brothers, Emile and Henri Gomez and I (Ana Robinson) decided to turn our love of food into a business venture.

We became Nomad Feasts Pty Ltd, a company that specialises in the manufacture and importation of fine foods from Spain, France and Morocco.

We knew that part of the business would include importing and, although we had a limited knowledge importing from companies we had been involved with before, none of us had handled imports directly and specifically, the importation of foods.

 We found that the best way to apprach this was to contact the Business Enterprise Centre and discuss with them what courses we should book ourselves into to ensure that we gained enough knowledge to undertake our business and imports successfully.

We were able to go through the extensive courses available and work out which one suited us best.

Business Enterprise Centre advised us to enrol in the BEC Comprehensive Intoductory Import/Export course.

This course gave us a terrific insight into the world of imports and gave us the knowledge we needed to begin to import from Spain successfully. The lecturer, Corinne Campbell, was a wealth of information and gave us a great understanding of the kinds of pitfalls that can occur and how best to protect ourselves as well as how to handle documentation and financial transactions.

 Corinne Campbell of XDOC® also made herself available to us for any queries or advice during the process of importing which was invaluable in getting our first imports into Australia. She has also given us wonderful information and links to other services we have found useful in our business.

 We now have all of our products in Australia and are starting to sell them successfully throughout the Sydney Metropolitan Area and in the future looking to a greater area of NSW as well as interstate.

One of our products, Mojama (Air dried and salt cured tuna) is being hailed as fish prosciutto and has been written up as a favourite dish in the Sydney magazine. It is also being sold into some of the finest restaurants in Sydney.

Our Spanish Hot Chocolate is becoming an obsession with those that have discovered it, and our products are gaining popularity everyday.

The ongoing support of the Business Enterprise Centre and XDOC® have given us the tools to begin our imports in a successful manner and the confidence to apply all that we have learnt in the most effective ways to meet our business needs and to ensure our success.

If you would like to see who we are and what we do, please visit our website at

www.nomadfeasts.com.au

Our advice:

“If you are looking at starting a business venture make your starting point the BEC.

The knowledge you will gain will be essential to your business success!!”