Our Customer

Gumnut Patisserie owners Tracy and Vicki Nickl are Pastry Chefs of the Southern Highlands, combining tradition and pride to craft exquisite pastries, deserts and pies with no compromise on quality. Gumnut Patisserie is a family business and in 2025 is celebrating 30 years of operations. Gumnut has 2 Retail Outlets and 1 Manufacturing / Retail location.

The Challenge

Being a bakery, energy usage is significant operational cost across the 3 locations, so it’s important for Gumnut Patisserie to have the right people in charge of the energy accounts to ensure that they are optimising their costs in this area. Enter Choice Energy, who, through our relationship with the Baking Association of Australia, were able to initially start to assess the accounts in mid-2023, and since have been able to ensure Gumnut Patisserie are always on the best energy rates.

    The outcome

    Since 2023, Choice Energy has been able to keep energy retailers honest and allowed Gumnut Patisserie to focus on what they do best. In doing this, we have helped them save over $40,000 in energy costs over this time, money they can put back into their business to allow them to continue to bake delicious pastries and train the future of Australian pastry and baking chefs.

    With energy being one of our largest overheads across multiple sites, it was crucial for us to have someone we could trust managing our energy costs. Choice Energy has taken that stress off our plate. Since 2023, they’ve not only ensured we’re always on the best rates but have saved us over $40,000—money we’ve reinvested back into our team and our craft.

    Michael Glennon, Operations Manager

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