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Food and Beverage Awards 2017 winners

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The 2017 Food and Beverage Award winners have been announced with meat producer Harvey Beef taking home the Best of the Best Award. Harvey Beef also won the Meat, Poultry and Smallgoods category. Daniel...

Farmers Union gets temporary rebrand

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Farmers Union Iced Coffee will be rebranding, but only for a limited-time. For the first time, Lion’s Farmers Union will temporarily change its name to Fathers Union as part of a Father’s Day marketing...

Australian brand takes home multiple medals from world’s largest cheese comp

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A small independent Australian cheese producer has taken out multiple medals at the world’s largest cheese competition. The International Cheese Awards, held in England, awarded Australia’s Shaw River...

Woolworths “outraged” by customer double charge incident

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Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci says Woolworths is outraged about a financial service provider processing error that caused some customers to be charge twice this week. On Sunday 6 August 2017, an error occurred...

Arnott’s opens $22 million Sydney packaging facility

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Arnott’s has opened a new $22 million packaging facility in Sydney’s western suburbs. New South Wales Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, this week opened the centre located in Huntingwood which will employ...

Investor interest in bioplastics following bag ban

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A Melbourne bioplastics developer says it has seen strong investor interest in recent moves to stop the use of single-use plastic bags. SECOS, an ASX-listed subsidiary of Cardia Bioplastics, has welcomed...

Delicious Produce Award winners announced

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Innovative Australian food products have been rewarded at the 2017 Delicious Produce Awards held in Melbourne this week. The awards, run by NewsCorp’s Delicious magazine, recognise the best in Australian...

Recycling companies unable to cope with glass

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Glass recycling in New South Wales is at a crisis point with companies receiving more glass than they can handle an investigation has claimed. According to a Four Corners investigation, set to air Monday...

Bad weather takes toll on Australian macadamias

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Serve weather has taken its toll on Australia’s 2017 macadamia crop. The 2017 crop forecast has now been revised down to 47, 000 tonnes in-shell, approximately 10 per cent lower than originally expecting....

FSANZ calls for submissions on GM rice application

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Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has called for submissions on an application to permit a genetically modified rice that aims to address vitamin A deficiencies in developing countries. FSANZ...