About Superpop
Superpop is an Australian popcorn manufacturer and concession supply company whose lineage dates to the 1950s and 1960s. Superpop services all cinemas and supermarkets, entertainment centres and food businesses across Australia and New Zealand.
It is a vertically integrated company as it both manufactures and supplies goods to both the cinema industry and RTE popcorn for supermarkets.
Superpop specializes in manufacturing popcorn for companies that need expert guidance in producing popcorn to specified flavours and tastes.
Cinemas packaging is developed utilising current world-wide trends to suit government mandates while Superpop has exclusive distribution rights to the largest manufacturers of concessions equipment including popcorn machines, fairy floss machines and snow cone machines.
Superpop is literally the one stop, popcorn shop.
The Profesors of Pop :
At Superpop we call ourselves the Professors of Pop because our lineage proves that our history comes from the two oldest popcorn companies servicing Victoria from the 1950s and 1960s.
In those days the only popcorn sold in supermarkets was the iconic Australian coloured popcorn manufactured by Panda Popcorn.
In cinemas no popcorn was popped on site. Popsy Popcorn supplied all cinemas with ready to eat corn in 1 kg bags. This was poured into warmers and patrons were served warmed popcorn to assist in enjoying the movie.
In 1990 Superpop purchased Panda Popcorn and around ten years later purchased Popsy Popcorn. Our lineage and our heritage were established as we utilised the knowledge of decades and then further enhanced it by working with bakery innovation specialist, Kevin Edwards, an expert who developed new biscuits working alongside the owner of Brockhoff Biscuits.
The owner of Superpop, Janis Kondarovskis couldn’t have been happier to get such an informed team together to start the process of developing popcorn as an Australian staple.
Superpop In 2026 – The Timeline :
1950s – Panda Popcorn begins producing coloured popcorn for supermarkets
1960s – Popsy Popcorn supplies ready-to-eat popcorn to cinemas
1990 – Superpop, established in 1987 acquired Panda Popcorn.
1991 Superpop purchased Movietime Popcorn and consolidated the two manufacturing sites for coloured popcorn in Reservoir.
1991 – 2026, Superpop was the first to introduce cinema favourites, plus cheese, salt & vinegar, caramel, chicken and other flavours of popcorn to supermarkets.
1996 – Superpop acquired Sydney based The Lolly Factory expanding our knowledge of confectionery manufacturing. This base in Sydney allowed us to expand our cinema sales to every Australian cinema
Early 2000s – Superpop acquired Popsy Popcorn as cinemas begin popping their own popcorn on site. Superpop gained the exclusive rights to sell Gold Medal equipment and concessions equipment such as fairy floss machines and ingredients.
2005 saw Superpop start it’s New Zealand company supplying all cinemas with candy bar requisites for cinemas.
In 2010, family member, Eric Kondarovskis started the manufacturing packaging for cinemas by setting up his Shanghai factory. Over the next 15 years Superpop’s vertical integration allowed us to produce branded packaging for most cinemas and established our leading role supplying all major cinemas in Australia and New Zealand.
2012 Superpop started manufacturing own brand popcorn for all supermarkets as well as manufacturing popcorn for multi-national and local popcorn companies who found that they could not match Superpop quality.
2024 saw the family acquisition of Darlington Point Grains and Maize, where James and Ian Kondarovskis took over the milling and cleaning of raw materials such as maize and popcorn, further enhancing our vertical integration.
2024 saw Superpop become a genuine supplier of goods from the paddock to the plate.
In 2026 all the brands associated with Superpop have ben rebranded under the Superpop banner.