The UK’s top grocery retailers, brands and manufacturers have committed to an industry-wide food waste reduction objective for the first time. This will be delivered under WRAP’s (Waste &...

Falling oil and raw material prices in combination with the discounter threat will lead to a significant easing in grocery prices in Europe in 2009, while six main areas of grocery retailing will be adversely...

McDonald’s, the world’s largest fast-food chain, announced overnight that, despite sales showing signs of slowing in the fourth quarter, they continue to be able to perform above market expectations...

Kellogg Company is beginning a six-month test of a “more consumer-friendly, space-saving box for its cereal brands” that could potentially redefine the cereal aisle, the company says. Kellogg...

Sixteen brands have been chosen by consumers as the most innovative for 2009. In the largest consumer-voted program in North America to reward innovation among the consumer packaged goods industry, over...

Coopers, Australia’s largest independently-owned brewer, is hopeful that they will soon be producing America’s most popular beer at their South Australian brewery. Budweiser, which is the highest...

The world’s biggest dairy exporter Fonterra, which owned 43 per cent of Sanlu Group – the company at the centre of China’s melamine scandal, has advised of their shock at the alarming...

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer, has advised that it has entered into an agreement with Asahi Breweries to sell part of its stake in Tsingtao Brewery Co. for US$667 million. The...

Tasmanian cherry grower Reid Fruits has overcome market access challenges to ship 17.5 tonnes of premium Japanese-variety (Satonishiki) cherries which retail at A$50 per kilo in Japan – the homeland...

While the nation stopped to celebrate Australia day, Australian exporters and Austrade were hoping to make the most of the heightened international awareness of Australia and help enhance international...