New Zealand’s competition watchdog has granted approval for Coca-Cola Amatil to purchase Baker Halls, New Zealand’s leading fruit juice syrup producer, from Old Fashioned Foods. Commerce Commission...

The Australian dairy industry has been shaken by the global financial downturn, according to Dairy Australia’s latest Situation and Outlook report. Dairy Australia’s Manager of Strategy and...

Despite a quarterly deflation figure and disinflation for the year to December, food price inflation gathered pace in the closing months of 2008, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics...

The biggest things on 2008 menus were small, with mini food, low prices and lighter options. Looking back at menus in the US from 2008, Mintel Menu Insights reveals that three of the year’s top trends...

Consumers, worried about the current economic environment, are increasingly opting to entertain friends and family at home rather than dining out, which has seen the share of food spend in Australia channelled...

After a number of changes between 2006 and 2007, the Nielsen Grocery Report Top 100 Suppliers list in 2008 saw few alterations to last year’s rankings. The leading five suppliers in Australia accounted...

Woolworths, Australia’s largest supermarket operator, has reported first-half sales growth of 8.8 per cent to $26.1b, driven by solid results from their Australian supermarket division and Big W. The...

While the stockmarket continues to head toward the floor the need for food relief has gone through the roof. Australia’s largest hunger relief organisation, Foodbank Australia, is discovering just...

Coca-Cola will provide US$400,000 to MSU’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources to help establish a new Center for Packaging Innovation and Sustainability, designed to allow for food and...

The global energy drink market countered fears over the economic conditions to register an approximate 15% increase in 2008. Leading beverage agency, Canadean, reports that growth has come from across...