The Federal Government’s unit pricing* Code of Conduct becomes operable today, with retailers given until 1 December 2009 to display unit pricing on food based grocery items. The Australian National...

Foster’s is set to cut the alcohol content of Australia’s highest selling beer in a bid to avoid a price hike next month. The brewer, which is embarking on a marketing push in the coming months...

Diageo, the world’s largest multinational alcohol group, has announced that Gilbert Ghostine has been appointed President of Diageo’s Asia-Pacific region. He will report to Ivan Menezes, Chairman...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has given the all clear for Baiada Poultry to purchase the owner of the Steggles brand (Bartter) in a deal that will create a new market leader in the...

Food product recalls in Australia are on the rise this year, according to a study by crisis management consultancy Luttrell & Associates. The research is on the back of an improvement last year –...

Supermarket chain Coles has suggested that the sale of 45 supermarkets to independent grocery chain Foodworks will have a negligible impact on their ability to close the market share gap to Woolworths,...

If Kevin Rudd still believes in his comments prior to the election that food prices are too high in Australia, then perhaps he should be considering a visit to Woolworths or Coles if the example of Russian...

The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) recently gathered in Anaheim to learn about innovative new food and beverage products launched around the globe, picking up on new product trends in the sweeteners,...

The Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Mark Butler, last week announced four new appointments and three reappointments to the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), the lead food regulatory...

New Zealand’s Fonterra Co-operative Group has been ranked as the largest milk processor in the world.Global industry research group, International Farm Comparison Network (IFCN), benchmarked 600...