Top chefs and industry insiders will reveal the secrets of three-hat restaurants at Australia’s pre-eminent food industry event, Restaurant*, on 25-26 October 2010 at Sydney’s Royal Hall of...

Consumer group CHOICE has described Coles’ decision not to publish its in-store prices online as a major disappointment and has called on the supermarket chain to reconsider. Coles’ announcement...

Nestlé on Wednesday completed the sale of its remaining shares in Alcon to Novartis, representing around 52% of Alcon’s share capital, for USD 28.3 billion.Nestlé acquired Alcon in 1977 for USD...

The recent Salmonella outbreak in eggs in the U.S highlights a crucial need for an effective product tracing system. According to the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), a nonprofit scientific society...

‘Additive-Free’ has, misleadingly, become synonymous with ‘healthy’, thanks to the clever marketing people who work in the food industry. To combat this there is going to be a three-part...

Casey’s General Stores has completed the latest round of defences against its hostile suitor Couche-Tard, when it announced the preliminary results of its modified “Dutch auction” self...

Swiss food giant Nestle has opened two premium chocolate production lines in Russia. The two lines, which were transferred from the Tuchkovo factory in the Ruzsky district, Moscow, to the Samara region,...

Woolworths has reported a 10.1% increase in net profit, to a total of $2 billion, for the financial year. Woolworths announced its positive full-year results today, among the most positive for Australia’s...

National Foods has announced it will undertake an extensive review of its cheese manufacturing operations across Australia. The announcement follows a string of redundancies, consolidations and closures...

Westfield Shopping Centre today launched a recycling initiative which, once rolled out nationally, is expected to divert 675 tonnes of beverage containers from landfill each year – enough containers...