Fonterra, the world’s biggest dairy exporter, has temporarily shelved plans to spend $10 million upgrading its Wynyard cheese factory in northern Tasmania. The decision has come in response to concerns...

New Zealand’s competition watchdog has granted approval for Coca-Cola Amatil to purchase Baker Halls, New Zealand’s leading fruit juice syrup producer, from Old Fashioned Foods. Commerce Commission...

Coca-Cola will provide US$400,000 to MSU’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources to help establish a new Center for Packaging Innovation and Sustainability, designed to allow for food and...

Sixteen brands have been chosen by consumers as the most innovative for 2009. In the largest consumer-voted program in North America to reward innovation among the consumer packaged goods industry, over...

Tasmanian cherry grower Reid Fruits has overcome market access challenges to ship 17.5 tonnes of premium Japanese-variety (Satonishiki) cherries which retail at A$50 per kilo in Japan – the homeland...

Over 1500 companies now employ the Global Reporting Initiative’s guidelines to evaluate performance on sustainability, environmental impact and responsible marketing, with Kellogg’s just releasing...

Watch out Sam Kekovich, 2009’s Australia Day battle is about to heat up with Macadamias looking to take the position as Australia’s most Australian fare. “Macadamia nuts are more Australian...

New food labelling and composition rules aimed at helping people who are intolerant to gluten have been published by the European Union, with a tightening of legislation bringing their laws closer to that...

Fonterra Co-operative Group, the world’s largest dairy exporter, has announced the appointment of Jonathan Mason as its new Chief Financial Officer. The dairy group also announced earlier this week...

A new study could present food manufacturers companies around the world with a way to cater to an ageing population and increased interest in health and wellbeing products. A team of researchers at Danisco...