Olive Business

Olive Business is a trading name of Salsi Pty Ltd, Australia. Olive Business's interests cover a range of activities in the food production and marketing, publishing, internet and learning industries. Since 2001 Olive Business has presented the Extra Virgin Olive Oil Savantes tasting program, which develops particiapants tasting skills, knowledge and professional development. Savantes has been presented in Australia, New Zealand, UK, South Africa, Italy and Spain. Primary production enterprises are based on a property near St Arnaud in Victoria and include a 4200 tree organic olive grove. Olive varieties include mission, manzanillo, kalamata, verdale, correggiola and nevadillo blanco. The property has Land for Wildlife status. Production philosophy embraces the principles of conservation, whole farm planning and vertical integration. The publishing enterprise comprises the development and production of operations and training manuals, and handbooks for the retail industry in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.Handbooks published independently include 'The Oil Maker's Handbook', the 'Table Olive Handbook' and 'The Olive Handbook'. Activities in delivering conferences, seminars and courses range through leadership development, strategic policy, olive industry development and technical training.