Food safety could receive a boost if regulators created a list to rank the riskiest products, a leading United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) official has suggested. America has been battered...

Private label share has risen dramatically across retail channels and product categories during the past two years as consumers struggle with high food prices and other economic pressures, new research...

Twitter, the micro-blogging platform that challenges users to think in 140 characters or less, is taking the world by storm, and businesses are searching for ways to capitalise on its flourishing popularity. The...

McDonald’s announced a resilient 4.3% increase in global comparable sales for the first quarter as they continue to attract financially stricken consumers. Chief Executive Officer Jim Skinner said...

The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) has launched its plan to reduce the incidence of Salmonella in food. There are 1,274 cases reported by Australia’s eastern neighbours to public health...

The world’s largest food group has reported a 2.1% decline in sales as currency fluctuations counter organic growth at Nestlé. The company once again saw bottled water sales decline as European...

Tesco, the UK’s leading supermarket operator and world’s third largest retailer, reported their highest ever profit overnight but has been criticised by an analyst for a “short-term approach”...

First quarter profit at The Coca-Cola Company has fallen by 10 per cent, as currency fluctuations and one-time costs outweigh an increase in unit case volume of 2 per cent.Internationally, the Company...

In the next few years, Unilever has pledged a worldwide effort to reduce the salt content of almost its entire food portfolio, covering 22,000 products. Unilever’s aim is to reduce the salt content...

WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) has recently begun a scoping project with the aim of enabling retailers and brands to use recycled polypropylene plastic in food packaging.Polypropylene is...