Italian dairy giant Parmalat has reportedly dismissed speculation of a possible bid for the dairy unit of Australia’s Goodman Fielder. Italian newspaper La Repubblica said in an unsourced report...

Ballarat-based Hakubaku Australia has completed the largest ever export deal for Australian-made organic retail products into Korea with a $300,000 shipment of organic ‘Somen’ noodles to leading...

Buying has begun for the New Zealand Food Safety Authority’s 2009 Total Diet Study, which takes a detailed look at the food consumers eat. Every five or six years more than 120 foods commonly eaten...

Australian retail food brand manager and franchisor Retail Food Group Limited (RFG) announced earlier this week that retail trade performance of its four franchise systems during December 2008 remained...

The number of consumer level food recalls reached their lowest level for eight years in 2008 in a sign that manufacturers are continuing to improve the effectiveness of their food safety systems. There...

Global market intelligence firm Synovate has released data from its global economy and prices survey, revealing where people were intending to or already had switched brands and which market categories...

Medisyn Technologies, Inc., announced last week a research and licensing collaboration with Kraft Foods to discover effective bioactive ingredients suitable for food use and take advantage of increased...

Yum! Brands is to test a co-branding of their Pizza Hut outlets in Australia in a bid to boost market share. The company has seen Domino’s assume the market leadership in the fast-food pizza market...

The European heart health ingredients market is developing lucratively due to the growth in the functional foods sector, triggered by a global fitness fad among consumers. Extensive media coverage has...

Grocery food prices could retreat by up to 15 per cent in some cases, according to an agricultural expert, as lower fuel costs and strong overseas harvests force the price of food staples down from the...