As a host of companies seek to provide health supplements to their products amid concern over the obesity epidemic, a couple of major US confectionery companies have opted into the cosmetics industry. Wrigley,...

The Senate Committee Inquiry into the proposed tax increase on “alcopops” begun this morning in Canberra with the public hearing, held over the next two days, to have evidence provided by 17...

Small Business Minister Margaret Quirk has warned that more small businesses could feel the flow-on effects of the gas explosion on Varanus Island. A major fire at Apache Energy’s gas processing...

The City of Sydney is looking for the best of the best in small and medium businesses and is now calling for nominations for the 2008 City of Sydney Business Awards.Small and medium businesses have contributed...

Governments around the world should resist the temptation to resort to protectionist measures in food markets if they are to help their populations through the current spike in food prices, according to...

DuPont science will help the world’s farmers increase their productivity and meet the growing global demand for grain, said William Niebur, DuPont vice president – DuPont Crop Genetics Research...

The efforts of one man 25 years ago to bring a native plant from Paraguay to the United States is on the verge of changing the way America eats. Available online and in US grocery store aisles for the...

About 60 Warrnambool fast food and restaurant workers – some as young as 16 – are to be reimbursed more than $84,000 after investigations by the Workplace Ombudsman found many were being significantly...

Fonterra announced on Friday a record sixth step-up in milk price for its Victorian and Tasmanian milk supply for the 2007/08 season.The milk price increase is 17 cents/kg butterfat and 42 cents/kg protein...

Foster’s Group Limited has accepted the resignation of their CEO Trevor O’Hoy as they announce a revised forecast of profit for fiscal year 2008. Foster’s, Australia’s biggest beer...