A pan-European study by the European Food Information Council (EUFIC) has provided further insights into the shopper relationship with food labels. The study, which questioned 17,300 people from various...

Fairtrade Labelling Australia & New Zealand today confirmed premium organic chocolate maker Green & Black’s will be going Fairtrade Certified across the vast majority of its block chocolate...

The key food sectors in Australia are weathering the global recession well, the latest research from Leatherhead’s Global Food Markets shows, with frugalism far less prevalent than in most other...

A leading Japanese company is looking at the prospect of buying Tasmanian vegetables and fish and may even set up a vegetable processing plant in the Apple Isle. Late last year McCain Foods said they would...

Australian food and beverage manufacturers are calling on the government to match the efforts of other advanced economies when it comes to climate change policy rather than go it alone with their own scheme. AFGC...

The world’s largest food group, Nestlé, is expected by analysts to look at the prospect of acquiring Hershey in the years ahead as they see themselves fall down the confectionery pecking order. The...

El Bulli, consistently voted as the world’s best restaurant over recent years, will close for two years as chef Ferran Adria looks to lighten his 15-hour a day workload. The Spanish chef, widely...

The level of food inflation in Australia has risen to 1.4% in the December quarter, although it remains moderate when compared to the rapid price hikes of the first half of 2008. The Australian Bureau...

Supermarket chain Coles is set to introduce uniform prices on over 8,000 grocery products across the country, in a move similar to that of Aldi in 2008. The national pricing scheme will apply to approximately...

Australia’s largest supermarket operator, Woolworths, has today announced half year sales of $27.2 billion – a 4.2% increase on last year, or 6% when stripping out petrol sales. Woolworths...