The latest Asia-Pacific Food and Beverage Business Vitality Index, produced by market intelligence firm Global Intelligence Alliance Group (GIA), has seen consumer products giant Unilever come out on top. The...

Fair Trade Fortnight, Australia’s biggest annual celebration of all things fair trade, has begun, with a search for Australia’s Most Fairtrade Friendly Supermarket. Fair Trade Association of...

Australia’s largest food group has announced that it will be shifting their strategic direction to increase focus on consumer brands. The changes will see Goodman Fielder look for suitable buyers...

Kraft Foods has announced a first quarter profit increase of 10 per cent as inventory reductions at grocers stagnate and consumers increase demand for cheap, convenient food. Organic net revenue growth...

Food retail sales rose again in March, according to the latest ABS data, but the rate of growth has fallen as restaurants and take-away outlets received a more substantial boost. The Australian Retailers...

Consumers often fail to check their pantries for recalled products but when they find out about a recall they spread the word, according to new research from America. Rutgers Food Policy Institute (FPI)...

A coalition of parent, health and consumer groups have renewed calls for tougher advertising regulations, after releasing figures suggesting Australian children encounter about 2200 junk food advertisements...

Retail industry body the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) believes the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has demonstrated good fiscal policy by leaving the official cash rate unchanged at three per...

A Ballina bakery that sold a cockroach in a loaf of bread is the one of 23 premises to appear on the NSW Government’s name and shame list this week, Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said...

As people become more educated, they tend to choose foods that are lower in calories but higher in nutrients. They also pay more. In a study published in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of the American...