Smithtown (31°00′S 152°56′E / 31.000°S 152.933°E / -31.000; 152.933[1]) is a small town on the banks of the Macleay River in New South Wales, Australia.
[2] The town was named after Robert Burdett Smith, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, when the post office was established in 1877.
[3] Nestlé has an over-100-year-old factory in the town with over 200 workers, making it one of the NSW Mid-North Coast's biggest private-sector employers.
Milo was first produced there in 1934 as a Depression-era nutritional supplement for children, and the factory's current production is over 13,000 tonnes per year.
[4] It is now also the only site worldwide that produces Nestlé's "Café Menu" range of products for the whole world.