Little World Beverages (LWB), the boutique beer company recently acquired by Lion, has delivered a 26 per cent growth in profits, an achievement which is sure to impress its new owner.
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Should we adopt WHO bottled water standards?
Australia’s food health regulating body is calling for submissions on adopting the World Health Organisation (WHO) limits for chemicals in packaged water.
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Coke’s glass bottles to receive a boost
Coca-Cola Amatil will increase the size of it’s 250mL glass bottles to 330mL and added a resealable lid, in a move the global beverage giant says will add convenience and portability.
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Celebrating? Pop the champagne…or unscrew the top
In an Australian first, a winery has released a champagne range sealed with a screw top instead of the cork that is synonymous with the beverage.
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Wine producer cuts 175 jobs
Accolade Wines will cut 175 jobs by January 2013 when it closes its Australian bottling operations.
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Campbell’s Soup buys produce company for $1.55 billion
Campbell Soup has acquired US fruit and vegetable company Bolthouse Farms for $1.55 billion in cash.
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Industry-sponsored self-regulation: it’s just not cricket
The world keeps getting fatter and no country has yet successfully managed to reduce adult rates of overweight and obesity.
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Accessing the market with innovation
“If you combine the over-50’s with the number of people with arthritis or a disability, that means one in two are facing some kind of restriction with opening packages.”
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Fat of the land: how urban design can help curb obesity
Compared with our grandparents, feeding, clothing, and entertaining ourselves has never been easier: a one-stop weekly shopping centre trip in a car, facilitated by convenient parking and light-weight maneuverable shopping trolleys that allow us to whiz around the supermarket with ease.
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Victoria failing on alcohol policies: Auditor-General
The number of alcohol-related assaults in Victoria have risen rose by almost since 2001, while the number of ambulance attendances to deal with incidents related to alcohol more than tripled.
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Major food companies targeting low income communities more likely to lead unhealthy lifestyles
A new report has found that major food processors are targeting low and middle income areas with their unhealthy products, armed with the knowledge that consumption of unhealthy foods is higher in amongst those societal groups.
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Longer Life Through Coffee Drinking?
There is a persistent belief that drinking coffee is bad for you. Some alternative medicine systems eschew all coffee drinking (but are enthusiastic about coffee enemas).
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Japanese takeover of Little Creatures depends on shareholders’ vote
Japanese-owned beverage company, Lion, has made a bid for Perth-based brewer Little World Beverages (LWB), which is now valued at more than $380 million.
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Coles and Woollies wiping out regional grocers: lobby group
The Senate Inquiry into Coles and Woolworths’ anti-competitive behaviour is not impacting their mission to take over the grocery sector entirely, and the independents are desperately calling on the federal government to step in.
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A new dress all starts with a bottle of wine
Scientists from the University of Western Australia have found a new use for red wine: clothing.
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Coca-Cola’s 6-step plan to be the leading Aussie beer brewer
Coca-Cola Amatil has confirmed plans to re-enter the Australian brewing industry by 2014, despite earlier disputing such rumours.
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Coles and Woollies are bullying winemakers too: departing Winemakers’ Federation chief
Amid accusations that Coles and Woolworths are intimidating food manufacturers and produce growers so much they are too scared to even speak up at a Senate Inquiry, a leading Australian wine body has publically criticised the big two.
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People in regional Australia more likely to consume alcohol, be obese
A new Australia-wide study has found that people living in rural areas are more likely to consume alcohol and be overweight and obese.
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Most Australians think we have an alcohol problem
Almost 80 per cent of Australians think that, as a nation, we have a problem with alcohol.
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UNSW, Korea join forces to reduce allergens during food and drink processing
Australian researchers have identified processing techniques which will minimise the adverse effects of allergens in milk and other food products.
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