The Directors of the Australian Bight Abalone Group (ABA) today placed the company into voluntary administration. McGrath Nicol will be responsible for the administration. ABA said the issues surrounding...

Australia’s finest young chefs and waiters last week completed a tour of Victoria’s leading food and wine regions in preparation for judging of the Electrolux Appetite for Excellence competition. The...

Despite the deterioration of the global economy, Euromonitor International believes the packaged food industry is well positioned to weather the storm. Everyone has to eat, and with global food commodity...

The global outlook for the foodservice sector is relatively stable for the years ahead, although strong growth for restaurants is not expected until 2011. “Consumers are cutting back on eating out...

The latest data from the ABS has shown restaurants, take-away outlets and cafés record seasonally adjusted growth of 1.4 per cent in May, outstripping the rise in sales of 1 per cent seen in the food...

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...

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,...