The British Government is working with supermarkets, retailers and food manufacturers in an endeavour to “kick-start a lifestyle revolution” and halt rising obesity rates. A report for the...

US restaurants may be facing the toughest new year in recent memory, but opportunities are still present for operators that know how to focus their efforts where it really counts – on the consumer....

Bill Marler, food safety advocate and managing partner of American foodborne illness law firm Marler Clark, asked the food safety community to weigh in on the most pressing food safety challenges for the...

The launch of a new seafood website last month provides retailers with the ability to showcase their stores as places where consumers are guaranteed to get what they are paying for. The website lists seafood...

Bakers Delight has announced plans for further expansion across its Australian, New Zealand and Canadian operations in 2009, with the planned launch of around 150 stores. While much of the retail sector...

Spotting trends in food is essential to understanding what food consumers are doing now and more importantly may be doing in the future. ‘thefoodpeople‘, a British-based food consultancy, split...

American consumers have trimmed their consumption of beef, veal and turkey since 1996; while the $66 billion beef sector still rules the roost, chicken was increasingly what’s for dinnerin 2008....

Every third child of school age prefers soft drinks which are not sweet. Children and young people love fish and do not think of themselves as being fussy eaters. Girls have a better sense of taste than...

Leading global manufacturers Kraft Foods, Nestlé and The Procter & Gamble Company, along with German-based retailer Metro Group, announced today they have extended the use of the Global Data Synchronization...

New research released in the December ARA Australian Retailers Index revealed a five percentage point jump in confidence among SME retailers, after consistent falls in confidence levels since November...