Groceries are the top item on which American consumers are spending their savings from lower fuel prices, ahead of putting the money in savings, holiday gift buying and paying off credit cards, according...

‘G’Day USA’ Australia Week 2009 has commenced with gourmet Australian food and wine from more than 35 Australian food businesses enticing American palates during the annual month-long...

According to Oxford researchers working with colleagues in Norway, chocolate, wine and tea enhance cognitive performance. The team, from Oxford’s Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and...

The British Government is working with supermarkets, retailers and food manufacturers in an endeavour to “kick-start a lifestyle revolution” and halt rising obesity rates. A report for the...

Food manufacturer Heinz formally took ownership of Golden Circle on 19 December, 2008, with the integration likely to be completed by around the middle of the year. “Following a review of the Golden...

Spanish food company Grupo SOS has taken control of the worldwide, perpetual licence for the Bertolli brand for olive oil, premium vinegar and olives. The €630m purchase from Unilever went through late...

US restaurants may be facing the toughest new year in recent memory, but opportunities are still present for operators that know how to focus their efforts where it really counts – on the consumer....

A couple has been fined $42,000 for causing the worst food poisoning outbreak in NSW – which lead to 319 people falling ill in 2007.Long and Linda Fou, former owners of the Homebush French Golden...

South Australian wine retailer, Moving Juice Pty Ltd, has accepted that it is likely to have misled and deceived consumers by misrepresenting price savings in its sales promotions.Following an investigation...

Bill Marler, food safety advocate and managing partner of American foodborne illness law firm Marler Clark, asked the food safety community to weigh in on the most pressing food safety challenges for the...