Restructuring costs have led to a 63% drop in full-year profit for grocery wholesaler and retailer Metcash. However, Metcash’s sales reportedly rose in the year to April 30, 2012, and underlying profit...

One of the world’s largest food and nutrition companies, Nestlé, has announced its intention to acquire US-based global nutrition company Pfizer Nutrition for US$11.85 billion (AU$11.5 billion). In...

Australian-based multinational packaging company Amcor is waiting for the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) to give its approval for its AU$238 million takeover of the privately owned...

Singapore-based Wilmar International Limited has announced that it has acquired a 10.1 per cent interest in publicly listed Australian food company Goodman Fielder for approximately AU$115 million (US$124...

One of Australia’s largest food retail companies, Retail Food Group, has acquired Pizza Capers, marking its entry into the Quick Service Restaurant sector. Retail Food Group announced on Tuesday that...

Kellogg Company, the world’s leading breakfast cereal maker, has announced its strategic decision to acquire the Pringles business, currently owned by the Procter & Gamble Group. The acquisition...

Harvey Fresh, a leading manufacturer in Western Australia of dairy products, fruit juices and wine, has announced its acquisition of juice processor Nugan Quality Foods. Harvey Fresh says the move will...

The Directors of Australia’s only ASX-listed sugar miller, MSF Sugar (formerly Maryborough Sugar Factory Limited), have accepted a A$4.45 per share takeover offer by Thai sugar company Mitr Phol. In...

Woolworths has acquired the businesses and associated assets of 31 hotels and one detached bottle shop in New South Wales. Through its hospitality company, ALH Group, Woolworths is taking out long-term...

Sucrogen, the Australian-based sugar subsidiary of Singapore-listed Wilmar International Limited, has been given approval to purchase Proserpine Sugar Mill by the mill’s creditors, Westpac Bank. Sucrogen’s...