The Australian Certified Organic Bud trademark logo is the most well-known organic trust mark in Australia and has been so for over a decade.

According to the Australian Organic Market Report 2023, The Bud certification logo is now recognised by 64 per cent of Australian shoppers, up from 51 per cent in 2019.

77 per cent of organic shoppers are aware of certification marks (up from 59 per cent in 2019), while 58 per cent of organic shoppers check for a ‘certification logo on the label’ of their purchases.

Supporting The Bud as a Mark of Trust

Learn from some of our organic members and Bud licensees about why they are ‘Behind the Bud’.

McMahon Bros Orchards

Ensuring every fruit and vegetable box that leaves their Stanthorpe packhouse is stamped with Australian Organic Limited’s The Bud logo underwrites a guarantee of trust between producer McMahon Bros Orchards and their customers.

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Cleaver’s Organic

For Cleaver’s, displaying Australian Organic Limited’s “Bud” certification mark on their products is central to their goal of being the world’s most sustainable meat producer. Hewitt manages more than two million hectares of certified organic land across eight properties and aggregations, with 33,000 head of cattle under management. Its flagship brand, Cleaver’s, supplies retailers all over the country with certified organic beef, lamb, chicken and sausages.

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Mount Horrocks Wines

Award-winning Clare Valley winemaker, Stephanie Toole, leads one of 3,000 organic businesses across the country that has embraced organic production, managing her operation to ensure it meets the strict standards required to achieve organic certification.

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Jalna Dairy Farm

Jalna Dairy Foods, a business supplying dairy products to Coles, Woolworths, Costco and IGA stores, proudly displays Australia Organic Limited’s The Bud logo on their certified organic products to give their consumers complete confidence in their purchase.

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Apples & Sage Organic Wholefoods

Servicing more than 3,000 customers per week, Apples and Sage Organic Wholefoods in Balwyn in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, has noticed firsthand shoppers are drawn to Australian Organic Limited’s The Bud Logo.

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Calls for mandatory certification logos on all organic products to build consumer trust

Australian Organic Limited (AOL) is calling for mandatory organic certification marks to be used on all certified organic products, after new research revealed a large number of shoppers believed they had previously been misled by organic labelling.

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