In a bid to ease Western Australia’s tourism and hospitality labour shortage, an innovative new online campaign aims to attract young working holidaymakers from the United Kingdom. It features a...

Food manufacturers will soon have access to a new CSIRO-bred barley variety, which reportedly has significant human health benefits. A licence agreement between the CSIRO/Australian Capital Ventures Limited...

Consumers are driving an industry trend towards food used for medicinal purposes, and exciting market opportunities exist as ‘Pharmafoods’ become increasingly important in disease prevention, especially...

New research released today in the inaugural Australian Retailers Association (ARA) Australian Retailers’ Index revealed retail support for the Federal Government has dropped dramatically during...

While conditions across the Australian grains belt have been variable, a forecast increase in the area planted provides optimism regarding winter grains production in 2008-09, according to the Australian...

ISS Group Limited has announced it has been awarded a contract for “Provision of a Real Time Integrated Plant Reporting Solution” by Mars SnackFood Ballarat operations, a subsidiary of Mars...

Archie Norman, the former boss of UK retailer Asda, continues to lure high profile executives to assist Coles with their re-development. Mr Norman has been hired as a consultant by Wesfarmers to assist...

Industrial gas users are facing a struggle in Western Australia as the Varanus Island explosion has led to the rationing of gas. Large mining and manufacturing companies have been the hardest hit so far...

Australia’s largest privately-owned confectionery manufacturer and retailer – Darrell Lea – has been fined $120,000 in the Federal Magistrate’s Court in Melbourne for breaches of...

The effects of high fuel costs and cheap imports are amongst the challenges to Queensland’s fisheries that will be investigated in a new seafood study.Primary Industries and Fisheries Minister Tim...