Yume Food enters liquidation, sale process launched

The companies trading as Yume Food Australia (The Yume App Pty Ltd and The Yume App Holdings Pty Ltd) appointed Teneo Financial Advisory Australia (Teneo) as liquidators on 18 November 2025.

Founded in 2015 as a social enterprise dedicated to reducing manufactured food waste, Yume Food Australia operates a digital trading platform that enables major food manufacturers to sell surplus products. The platform is designed to generate additional revenue for manufacturers by reducing food disposal, while also streamlining the process for donating unsold food to relief organisations.

Since its founding, Yume has:

• returned $30 million to Australian businesses and manufacturers;
• redistributed 11.5 million kg of quality food;
• avoided 44 million kg of CO₂ emissions; and
• saved 2.5 billion litres of embedded water by reducing food waste.

“Yume has developed an impressive technology platform which provides a national market for food manufacturers to sell product that otherwise may have been disposed. Over the past decade, Yume has established a national network of buyers and sellers, creating a secondary food market that’s become an established and valuable part of many manufacturers’ supply chains,” said Rebecca Gill from Teneo.

“This is an attractive opportunity for a prospective buyer to leverage the 10 years of investment into this platform, as well as the relationships and network Yume has built.”

The liquidators are inviting expressions of interest from buyers across food, logistics, ESG, retail and technology, and will be exploring all strategic opportunities to complete a transaction in the near term.

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