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Do we like Bundaberg Brewed Drinks?

Makes Bundaberg ginger beer and other brewed soft drinks, sold in about 30 countries. Based in Bundaberg, Queensland.

Our score: 6 out of 10. A well-known Australian family-run drinks maker. Our searches found no big scandals, and its packaging gets good marks. It's still sugary soft drink, and we found little detail on how it treats workers.

Bundaberg Brewed Drinks makes Australia's best-known ginger beer. Ethical Consumer describes it as the market leader for ginger beer in Australia, with exports to 30 countries. It's based in Bundaberg, Queensland.

On ownership, a blog post says it's still privately held and controlled by the Fleming family. IBISWorld puts its 2025 revenue at around $253.9 million. The sources we found disagree on who leads it, so we haven't named anyone.

On the environment, Ethical Consumer says it got a packaging performance level of 4 ('Leading') in the 2026 APCO Annual Report. It also says the company ran eco-efficiency projects to cut its impact and costs.

On trouble, the Australian product safety site lists a recall of a batch of Burgundee creaming soda over a risk of the bottle shattering. Our search turned up no fines, court cases or worker disputes against the company. That's a clean record, but a thin one. We'd back them, with a bit of caution.