About Consuming Passions

Small screen, bigger picture

In 1992, a new television food show hit the ABC’s airwaves. With next to no fanfare, the five-minute Consuming Passions presented by Ian Parmenter soon became a major success, selling to 15 countries and screened in South-east Asia through the Asia Pacific network. Recipe collections followed, published in Australia, the UK and Ireland, which have sold close to a million copies.

In response to the show’s popularity, its producers, David Evans and Ian Parmenter formed a company, Consuming Passions Pty Ltd, and soon found their services sought for a number of television and video productions, major events and corporate activities. And demands keep growing …

Our Can-Do Approach

During the past 22 years, Consuming Passions Pty Ltd has established relations with Australia’s most influential food, wine, hospitality and travel industry professionals and organisations. It has developed important contacts within the nation’s media at large and with the world’s food, wine and travel media.

The company is now in a position to offer expertise in a variety of activities:

• Event development and management, especially in relation to the promotion and marketing of Australian food, wine and beer at home and abroad. The television background of the company’s principals gives Consuming Passions events a sense of style and theatre rarely seen in more traditional food and wine promotions.
• Production and management of national and international food and wine trade and public events.
• Corporate and public performances/appearances by TV chef Ian Parmenter
• Event management consultancy. The company’s principals are available to design specific promotional programmes for clients in Australia and abroad.

Consuming Passions brings unrivalled national and international experience. In addition to Australia we have organised events in USA, France, Italy, UK, Spain, Mauritius, Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand.

The principals between them are fluent in French, Spanish and Italian.

Skills Base

Consuming Passions has:

• Unrivalled national and international chef, food and wine media and producer contacts.
• Unrivalled ability to reach the food and wine media in Australia as well as having significant media contacts in some 50 countries worldwide.
• The ability to take a project from conception to fulfilment. We are used to working for government and understand the processes required to reach objectives.
• Top quality hands-on management to deliver the goods with a minimum of fuss

For more information on how Consuming Passions can help conceptualise, develop and organise your next event, please contact us.

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