ABOUT US
It all started here at Normanton Traders!
Normanton Traders Food Store
In 2010, the then board of ADBT purchased Normanton Traders in partnership with BYNOE CACS with a view to relocating the store to the main highway and expanding its size to create a proper supermarket. Fast forward just over a decade as the construction began.
Normanton Foodworks Complex
In April 2021, construction began on a new 1000 square metre Foodworks complex incorporating the following:
- Groceries
- Meat and seafood
- Café (bakery opening in March 2024)
- Petrol
- Whitegoods, electronics, hardware, kitchen appliances & clothing
- Lotto. Normanton Foodworks has the only Gold Lotto Agency in the Gulf with the next agency being in Cairns or Cloncurry.
Completed and opened on the 21st of November 2022. Normanton Foodworks Supermarket is located at 59-63 Landsborough St (pictured above).
A Few Words About the History of Normanton Traders
Normanton Foodworks is owned through a partnership between the Gulf Regional Economic Aboriginal Trust and BYNOE. Both organisations are social enterprises with similar goals in particular developing sustainable communities through leading edge economic development initiatives.
Bynoe CACS was established to provide affordable housing to local Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people. Bynoe CACS continues to provide quality housing as well as delivering several other community-orientated services.
Prior to the creation of GREAT the organisation was founded as the Aboriginal Development Benefits Trust (ADBT) and was established under the Gulf Communities Agreement (GCA) negotiated between Century Mine, Queensland State Government and Gulf Native Title groups and was established to administer negotiated funds from the Century Mine, primarily for business development and indigenous ownership/investment in business. ADBT and now GREAT is an economic development organisation (entrepreneurial) and one of the most capable and successful in the country, black or white.
Food, Fuel, Supplies and Lotto in the Gulf Country
Normanton Foodworks is the only Gold Lotto Agency in the Gulf
