The CEO of the UK’s largest retailer has told of the need for food retailers to adapt and update to ensure they can relate to the ever-changing consumer. Sir Terry Leahy, the boss of Tesco, noted...

Warren Truss, the Leader of The Nationals and Shadow Trade Minister, has called on Trade Minister Simon Crean to step in amid claims the threat of a full-blown trade war between the European Union and...

Australia’s Sunny Queen Farms is set to launch an industry-first product into the egg market. The Australian egg brand, which last year recorded the third greatest value growth of any of the Top...

Norwegian chef, Geir Skeie, has claimed the top prize at the biennial Bocuse d’Or – commonly referred to as the Olympics of cooking. For more than twenty years the Bocuse d’Or has been...

The Australian dairy industry has been shaken by the global financial downturn, according to Dairy Australia’s latest Situation and Outlook report. Dairy Australia’s Manager of Strategy and...

Despite a quarterly deflation figure and disinflation for the year to December, food price inflation gathered pace in the closing months of 2008, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics...

The biggest things on 2008 menus were small, with mini food, low prices and lighter options. Looking back at menus in the US from 2008, Mintel Menu Insights reveals that three of the year’s top trends...

Consumers, worried about the current economic environment, are increasingly opting to entertain friends and family at home rather than dining out, which has seen the share of food spend in Australia channelled...

After a number of changes between 2006 and 2007, the Nielsen Grocery Report Top 100 Suppliers list in 2008 saw few alterations to last year’s rankings. The leading five suppliers in Australia accounted...

Woolworths, Australia’s largest supermarket operator, has reported first-half sales growth of 8.8 per cent to $26.1b, driven by solid results from their Australian supermarket division and Big W. The...