Meredith Dairy Australian Cheese and Yogurt

distributor• UAE• Member since 2005

Food Source International (FSI), legally Food Source International FZE, is based in Dubai Investments Park 2, Dubai, and describes itself as a food import, export, marketing and distribution company dedicated to sourcing and selling premium quality food products for the hospitality industry in the UAE and throughout the region. Its site says it was founded in January 2005 and has established itself as a reliable distributor of premium meat, seafood, cheeses and chocolate, and shows 20+ employees, 200+ products and 30+ brand partners. The company says it operates six days a week, takes orders by fax, email and phone and has a 24/7 after-hours hotline, and that its fleet of vans and trucks has separate chilled and frozen compartments (0 °C to -18 °C), maintained to HACCP standards and Dubai Municipality Food Control rules. It serves hotels, restaurants, retail, cash & carry and manufacturers, runs its own consumer e-commerce platform, australianmeatcompany.com, has a distribution partner in the Sultanate of Oman, and re-exports to the Maldives, Africa and other markets in the region. Its assortment covers beef from Australia, the USA and Argentina, Australian and US wagyu, Australian lamb, veal, poultry and game, fish and seafood from Australia, New Zealand, Scotland and Vietnam, stocks, sauces and pantry items, cheese and dairy, and Swiss chocolate. Brands named on the site include Mulwarra beef, lamb and veal, Blackmore Wagyu, Marri Wagyu, Umami Olive Fed Wagyu, Creekstone Farms, Riverina Beef, Acres, Azul, Marrunga and Warilba lamb, Martiko poultry, Glacier51, The Better Fish and Loch Duart fish, Meredith Dairy and Yarra Valley cheeses, Pepe Saya butter, Leatherwood and Fewsters Farm honey, Bone Roasters stocks, Fettayleh halal charcuterie and Frey chocolate. The company says all its products are fully traceable and that it only works with suppliers it knows and trusts. It calls Mulwarra its 'mother brand', and Australian exporter Mulwarra Export describes Food Source International on its own website as its official distributor in both the UAE and Oman; the two companies exhibited together at Gulfood 2023.