Garlo's Pies expands into QLD market

Previously only stocked in NSW, Garlo's Pies, the pie manufacturing business established by ex-footb…

Previously only stocked in NSW, Garlo's Pies, the pie manufacturing business established by ex-football player Sean Garlick, is expanding into the sunshine state.

Seven of Garlo's product lines will be available in 160 Coles stores in Queensland, and the expansion comes less than a year after the company moved into a new production facility in Sydney's St Peters.

"This move represents capacity and potential. We've always had potential and everyone's always spoken about how good our product is, but while we've been thwarted in our growth because of the physical limitations of our last premises, over the last couple of years we've learnt where we wanted to go in terms of operations and logistics," Garlick said at the time.

The move into Queensland has been on the cards for quite some time, and while it's testing the family-owned business, Garlick is optimistic that more locations will soon be stocking Garlo's pies and pastries.

“After Coles approached us to supply over 200 stores I sat there and did the numbers in my head,” he said. “At the time we had just enough capacity to deliver the quantities requested. We’d never sent a pallet out the door let alone the quantities that were being ordered by Coles but we decided to trial the product across the state.”