Sanitarium Health Food Company

The Sanitarium Health & Wellbeing Company is the trading name of two sister food companies . Both are wholly owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Sanitarium produces a large range of breakfast cereals as well as a range of vegetarian products. Founded in 1898, its flagship product Weet-Bix is a top seller in the Australian and New Zealand breakfast cereal market. The company also operated health food shops in a number of cities, closing them in the 1980s. Sanitarium has factories in a number of locations across Australia and New Zealand; some of these include Berkeley Vale,... Cooranbong, Carmel, Perth, Brisbane, Christchurch and Auckland. Weet-Bix was originally manufactured, from 1928, at 659 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt where until recently Sanitarium signage could still be seen. This factory predates the purchase of Weet-Bix by Sanitarium in 1930. A factory was operating in Palmerston North in New Zealand, but closed in the late 1990s. The Adelaide factory in Hackney was closed down in October 2010. During her time in Australia, pioneer Adventist Ellen G.
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