Giant fresh produce producer, Costa, is expanding its avocado business, acquiring the Avocado Ridge orchards and packaging operations from the Carney family. At the same time, its competitor Perfection...

Leading Australian produce company, Perfection Fresh, is undergoing a rebrand to help unify its brands which includes Broccolini, Qukes baby cucumbers, tomatoes and Calpyso mangoes. The new branding has...

Well-known Australian fruit distributor, Montague, is set to pack its first box of nectarines for China this week at its Narre Warren, Victoria, packaging facility. The fruit distributor is sending its...

Australian fresh produce marketer, Freshmax, has signed an exclusive stonefruit rights deal with leading Spanish agricultural business, Provedo. Freshmax will now be able to import, test and commercialise...

Australia’s largest fully integrated producer of dried vine fruits, Murray River Organics, is expected to soon list on the Australian Securities Exchange. Founded in 2008 by Jamie Nemtsas and Erling...

Australian fresh produce companies, Perfection Fresh and Fruit Master, have merged their table grape businesses. The business, ‘FruitMaster Australia’, is the country’s largest table grape growing...

A group of scientists are warning that bananas could become a delicacy within ten years unless a solution can be found to fungal diseases plaguing the banana industry. The warning comes after the group...

Industry promotion group ‘Australian Pineapples’ is launching a large-scale marketing campaign encouraging Australians to embrace pineapples as a winter fruit. The group has appointed health coach...

A recent salmonella outbreak that affected a particular rockmelon supply chain has again raised the issue of whether a Horticultural food safety protocol should be introduced as a standard under the Australia...

A University of Melbourne professor is warning Type 2 Diabetics to be wary of any hype surrounding the Paleo Diet. Writing in Volume 5, Issue 3 of the Medical Journal of Australia, Associate Professor...