Plans by McDonald’s Corporation to expand its store network in China could spell good news for Australia’s beef producers. The fast food chain plans to bring the number of its restaurants in China...

Pressure from anti-palm oil campaigners on Australia’s distributors and retailers continues. The campaigns concern how palm oil should be labelled as a food ingredient. The issue is now before a Federal...

This year’s Annual Food and Grocery Executive Program, run by the Institute of Food and Grocery Management, will be held from the 18th through 23rd of September at the Mt Eliza Centre for Executive Education...

The Australian Food and Grocery council has decried the Federal Government’s proposed carbon tax, saying it will increase the cost of food and grocery manufacturing in Australia. While full details...

A new report by consumer research company The Hartman Group investigates the myths of ‘shopper marketing’, a popular marketing strategy aimed at the people who purchase goods, particularly...

McDonald’s has released its global sales results for the second quarter, with earnings up 15%, including a 4.6% rise in the Asia/Pacific, Middle East and African region, thanks to strong sales in...

The NSW Food Authority has swooped in on illegal backyard ready-to-eat meat manufacturers, issuing 27 penalty notices, five improvement notices, four prohibition orders and ten warning letters. “An...

A Canberra restaurant has been closed and its owner fined $1500 after it was discovered that food was being prepared in the car park behind the restaurant. The owner of the Tak Kee Roast Inn, Kin Wah Wong,...

The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) and Master Grocers Australia will today appear at a Fair Work Australia hearing in Melbourne, seeking a ruling to reduce the minimum casual shift from three hours...

The latest ABS retail trade figures show that sales in March rose 0.3%, seasonally adjusted, compared with a fall of 1.2% the previous month. Sales rose, in seasonally adjusted terms, across five retail...