Brisbane Smallgoods Company was founded by Paul and Julie Purcell in 1980 at the rear of their retail butcher shop at Northgate in Brisbane. Over the years the company grew and relocated to a much larger and state of the art factory at Virginia and in 2003 was supplying product to major Hotels, Restaurants, Resorts and Large Distributors.
  In August of 2003 the Company was sold to concentrate on fresh meat.
Paul and Julie’s son Adam who’s a qualified butcher and has a full HACCP certification has learnt from highly skilled Master Butchers over the past 5 years. Adam wanted the chance to reopen the Company, so the Family purchased the company in May 2004.
The business was then renamed Snag Pty Ltd, trading as Brisbane Smallgoods Company and Mr Snag Pty Ltd.

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2004 –
1st place Leg Ham
3rd Place boneless Leg Ham
2004 Royal Queensland Show’s smallgoods Competition
3rd Place Continental
3rd Place Gourmet Class
2004 Sausage King – North Metropolitan Region
2005 –
1st Place Traditional Australian
2nd Place 100% Pork
2nd Place Continental
3rd Place Continental
2005 Sausage King – North Metropolitan Region
1st Place Precooked Sausage
2005 Royal Queensland Show’s smallgoods Competition

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Brisbane Smallgoods major product lines are Hams, Bacon, Smallgoods and a variety of continental lines, including Cheese Kranjansky and Mini-Cheese
Kranjansky, which are a huge favorite.
A major factor in the Company’s achievements has been the dedication that Brisbane Smallgood’s staff take in their work to produce a Quality and consistent product.
Brisbane Smallgoods only uses superior ingredients and pride themselves for being one of the only smallgoods company supporting Australian farmers by using the best quality Australian Pork and Australian Beef.
Our products are exceptionally tasty.   
After all… ‘Taste Matters!’

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Brisbane Smallgoods has an extensive food safety system, which incorporates an approved Meat Safety Quality Assurance program accompanied with a full HACCP program. This is covered by Food Safe Queensland and meets all Food Standards requirements of FSANZ.

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Paul and Adam Purcell are always searching for new technology and new methods to streamline their operation. In 2004 they traveled to Germany to view larger scale smallgoods operations and attend IFFA one of the largest food industry shows in the world, bringing back valuable Product and machinery knowledge to advance the company.
Since then the company has purchased new machinery to stream line their operation and will be traveling around the world looking at new was to enhance the fantastic products already available.

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Brisbane Smallgoods Company has been making award winning hams since it was founded in 1980 by Paul Purcell. The company is now owned by his son Adam Purcell, whom he has handed down the knowledge of 3 generations. Each ham is infused with an exclusive blend of ingredients to give it a traditional succulent ham flavor. All of the hams manufactured by Brisbane smallgoods go through a natural wood smoke with a Triple smoking process to achieve a superior golden brown ham, which also gives the right amount of smoke flavor throughout the meat.

Brisbane Smallgoods Company has a wide range of Hams to cater for your Christmas dinner, such as their

• Traditional Bone In Leg Ham (Whole or Half)
• “Easy-carve” Semi Boneless Leg Ham, the leg is boned out only leaving the small hock bone which makes carving easy.
•  Boneless “Champagne” Leg Ham is a totally boneless full muscle leg ham
• “Mini-carve” Shoulder Ham Semi Boneless (only the Hock remaining) and Totally Boneless
• Traditional “Picnic” Ham is a Bone in shoulder ham
• Traditional “Boiling Bacon” is a Bone in shoulder ham.    

Brisbane smallgoods Hams are exclusive to Jack Purcell Meats and are available right now. So don’t hesitate as you don’t want to miss out on the experience of a Brisbane Smallgoods Ham on Christmas Day.

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