A detailed and comprehensive manual addressing cook chill for all involved in the food production chain is being released by the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology.
15/05/2008
The Australian Food and Grocery Council, Australia’s peak food and grocery manufacturing industry group, has today given its support to the government’s plan to examine creeping acquisitions laws, labelling it a move in the right direction to help address concerns about retail competition issues.
03/09/2008
Tripacific Marine, based in Fiji, are patenting a smooth flakeless pressed tuna product, which will provide an alternative to flaky canned tuna.
31/07/2007
Snacks have become a convenient and relatively cheap substitute for goodies formerly baked at home, with increased disposable incomes combining with product development to result in significant sector growth.
10/09/2008
WA industry success was celebrated at the 2nd FIA Westpac Food and Beverage Industry Awards last week with one of the State’s youngest dairy companies, Challenge Australian Dairy, taking out top honours.
08/09/2009
According to Meat & Livestock Australia, an economic slowdown gripping almost all developed economies will impact demand for red meat as consumers change consumption and spending patterns toward lower value products.
15/10/2008
Since the 1990s, the British Retail Consortium’s (BRC’s) food safety benchmark has been the ‘gold standard’ for food and beverage businesses seeking entry to the lucrative UK and European markets.
03/10/2008
Woolworths Supermarkets has announced a three point action plan for palm oil sourcing and labelling for private label food products, including Homebrand and Select.
01/04/2010
Cospak, a major importer of glass packaging into Australia and New Zealand, is now able to utilise the capability of some of its key Asian suppliers to produce relatively small quantities of high quality glass bottles and jars.
09/10/2008
FOOD reveals the latest trends and developments within the bread and biscuit manufacturing industries, including export opportunities, and innovations in ingredients and processing
19/09/2007
Scholle packaging has announced a global price increase across all segments of their flexible packaging product range for dairy, wine, beverages, food, processed fruit and industrial products.
26/03/2008
DIVERSIFIED health and wellbeing food manufacturer, Freedom Nutritional Products (FNP) has more than doubled its net profit for the six months to 31 December 2010.
11/03/2010
Australian frozen food manufacturer Vesco Foods has announced it will stop producing coated fish products over the course of the next three to four months.
18/08/2008
After winning the FOOD Challenge Awards’ Meat and Smallgoods category in 2006 with its Braised Lamb Shanks, Food Solutions was again excited to become a finalist in the FOOD Challenge Awards.
13/02/2008
Goodman Fielder have announced it has entered into an agreement to sell its commercial division for edible fats and oils operations to Cargill.
11/12/2009
The financial crisis is staring us down, as we try to figure out who's boss. The fear of a long-term economic slowdown is a reality that all manufacturers are beginning to realise.
25/03/2009
It seems like the era of cheap food is nearing an end. The global rice stocks are at a 25-year low, with many net exporters of rice like Vietnam, India, China and Cambodia restricting exports, while many net importers, including the Philippines and Bangladesh are struggling to find sufficient supplies.
06/06/2008
Smith's Space Efficient Multi-Pack is a project that achieves the goals of the marketing, engineering and manufacturing departments, while managing to deliver a host of supply chain benefits at the same time.
10/09/2008
After taste testing their way through almost 1000 products entered in the 2009 Sydney Royal Cheese and Dairy Produce Show, the judges presented awards to a mixture of large and small operators from a variety of dairy sectors.
25/03/2009
Australia's promotional packaging specialists, Creative Pack, have joined forces with US company PakTech to deliver a low waste, sustainable packaging alternative for multi-packs to our market: the PakTech handle.
23/02/2009