Research on the disease-preventing, health-promoting benefits of meat and meat products makes them a viable contender in the functional food arena, according to the Institute of Food Technologists. Enriching...

Despite many being confronted with greater financial pressures, Australians refuse to sacrifice their taste buds when it comes to their choice of alcohol. Strong volume sales of imported and domestic premium...

Discount supermarket chain Aldi has today called for more Australian suppliers as they continue to make inroads in the Australian marketplace. Group Managing Director, Michael Kloeters, said the German-owned...

In 1854, Ike Hill took a job as a ‘Butcherboy’ on a convict ship bound for Australia. Since then the Hill family has been involved in butcher retailing and lamb exporting and wholesaling, trading...

ACCC Chairman Graeme Samuel has disputed claims that the grocery sector is becoming more concentrated and consequently posing a threat to suppliers. In an interview with Business Spectator last week, Mr...

It is far from a surprise that shoppers of all demographics have flocked to cheaper brands as a strategy to save money in the current recession, however a move toward premium brands may come as a shock...

The Checkout Fairtrade search has discovered Australia’s Most Fairtrade Friendly Supermarkets, with Victorian independent supermarket Leo’s Fine Food & Wine in Kew and Coles Belmont in...

The state finalists for the prestigious Electrolux Appetite for Excellence Awards were announced last week in three categories: Electrolux Young Chef, Electrolux Young Waiter and Electrolux Young Restaurateur. Now...

With the second-highest recorded cereals crop expected this year and stocks replenished, the world food supply looks less vulnerable to shocks than it was during last year’s food crisis, FAO said...

CSIRO Food Futures National Research Flagship and Australian company Stadvis Pty Ltd have signed a worldwide license agreement to commercialise an automated instrument that accurately predicts glycemic...