General Mills yesterday booked a 1% increase in year-to-date earnings and sales and insisted that it expects growth to accelerate in the final quarter of the year.For the first nine months of fiscal 2011,...

Australia’s largest café group The Coffee Club has finalised its 2010 financial year results, announcing a 16.6% increase in sales, taking global sales to $264 million for the year. The company attributed...

The Dorset Municipality in Tasmania is the northern focus of an innovative food research project aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of the community. Tasmanian Minister for Health, Michelle O’Byrne,...

Consumer research group Datamonitor today released a new report on sports nutrition, saying that sports nutrition food and drink brands have the potential for tremendous growth if they can encourage mass...

Consumer research group Roy Morgan has weighed in on Australia’s supermarket ‘milk war’, with new statistics showing that purchasing of supermarket-branded milk is on the rise, particularly...

New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra has today reported a net profit after tax of NZ$293 million, or 21c per share, for the six months to 31 January 2011, marking the first time Fonterra has reported...

Chicken soup, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese… they may be bad for your arteries, but according to an upcoming study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science,...

Australian pizza chain La Porchetta has announced the launch of a branded iPhone app, created by software development company itakeaway, as well as a multi-platform launch on itakeaway’s own apps. Using...

South Australian Minister for Fisheries Michael O’Brien said today that South Australia’s reputation as one of the world’s best-managed fisheries put the state in a solid position to benefit from...

Heinz has announced the launch of two chili-flavoured ketchup varieties in the UK. The company said today (22 March) that the Heinz Tomato Ketchup with Fiery Chili and Heinz Tomato Ketchup with Chili will...