Australia’s largest supermarket chains are enhancing their focus on private label within their advertising campaigns as they seek to capitalise on an Australian consumer intent on cutting costs. A...

For the first time UK scientists have shown what the food poisoning bug Salmonella feeds on to survive as it causes infection: glucose. The discovery of the weakness for sugar could provide a new way to...

Asda, the UK’s second largest supermarket chain, reported its twelfth successive quarter of market out-performance with underlying sales rising by 8.4% last week as they enhanced their innovation...

Ian McLeod, the Managing Director of Coles, is craving faster progress but has maintained that the supermarket chain is on track in their five-year turnaround. “I always would like to be progressing...

Tesco has announced it will continue expanding their carbon labelling project, with the goal to eventually have a carbon label on all their private label products. The UK’s largest supermarket chain...

Clean Seas Tuna has advised that its ongoing Tuna research and feed trials have been successful, with continuous spawning over a 35 day period from 12 March 2009 to 16 April 2009. In a world first, over...

Ground breaking findings by an international consortium of scientists who sequenced and analysed the bovine genome, could result in more sustainable food production. The findings, published in two reports...

Coles boss Ian McLeod has today informed analysts of the rapid change taking place at Coles but remained cautious about the future despite announcing third quarter sales growth of 6 per cent – well...

Food security and the role of agriculture in the recovery from the global recession was high on Australia’s agenda for the G8+ Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting, the Federal Government has advised. The...

A pistachio recall in America last month has been responsible for the recall of up to 14 products in Australia and posed questions about the mass production of food. The food regulatory body in the US,...