The Snack Foods Award finalists include Absolute Organic Chips, CrunchTime, Curios, John West Tuna to Go, Nutrient Secrets, Select Harvests Lucky Nut Range, SunRice Chicken and Barbecue Flavour Rice Cakes Snack Packs and Sultry Sally Potato Chips.
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Lean powder processing – the key to survival
We are all citizens of the world, wanting to enjoy every style of food, wherever we may be. The result is that supermarket shelves are being filled with a huge variety of products, creating an ever-increasing demand for frequent product changes on manufacturers.
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Breaking bread habits of Australia’s Manufacturers
The demand for consumer goods is generally positively related to real disposable income. This, however, is not true of staple products such as bread. IBISWorld presents an industry report on bread manufacturing in Australia.
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Australian Packaging increases its slice of the pie
Privately owned, flexible packaging specialist, Australian Packaging (AP), has become the leading contracted supplier to the national pie and sausage roll industry.
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Ready-made baked goods – the modern trend
Convenience food is enjoying continuing popularity and currently recording two-figure growth rates in the market. As consumers demand fresher goods, food processors are creating more refrigerated, ready-to-serve products that are easy to prepare and have a high quality taste.
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Exporters should strive to set value, not price
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.
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Austrade guides Australian businesses into new markets
The Australian food and beverage industry is recognised worldwide for its healthy image, offering high quality products with innovative manufacturing and packaging technologies.
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2008 Gluten Free expo
Following the 10,000-strong support for the 2007 Gluten Free Expo, the event is back, bringing the best of gluten free goodies to consumers on Friday 22 August and Saturday 23 August, 2008 at Sydney Olympic Park.
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Produce of Heaven
An innovative Agribusiness Park in North West Tasmania is set to increase export and value-added food opportunities for regional producers.
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Nanofood for the future
Once a far-fetched fantasy a long way into the future, nanotechnology is set to have a huge impact on our lives in the here and now. With developments of materials and devices that can monitor blood, detect environmental pollutants and store energy better, nanotech is becoming an integral part of our ever-changing world.
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Innovation & technical knowledge for Queensland success
With its focus firmly fixed on 'business intelligence', coding and marking specialist Matthews has expanded its Queensland operations, growing staffing levels and overall business.
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Profit in a bottle
The three Fs behind the growth of the bottled water industry - Fashion, Flavour and Function - are revealed by business information analysts IBISWorld.
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What’s in contact with your food production?
Over the past sixty years, Atlas Copco has pioneered the development of oil-free air technology, resulting in a range of oil-free air compressors to suit applications that refuse to compromise when it comes to 100% oil-free clean air.
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Amcor upgrades with integrated safety
An innovative integrated safety control system, founded on Rockwell Automation's GuardLogix, helps fast-track a safety upgrade at Amcor's NSW beverage can manufacturing facility, while simplifying operation and optimising efficiency.
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Goulburn Valley gets the tick of approval
With research showing over half of Australians are not eating their recommended two servings of fruit per day; Goulburn Valley has announced a new health initiative, in the hope of encouraging Australians to eat more fruit.
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The latest in can innovation
The company that invented the pull-top aluminum can helps debut the first ever vented can.
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Reinforcing pallet ownership rights
CHEP Australia has settled a dispute with a Victorian food wholesaler regarding the use of CHEP’s distinctive blue pallets.
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Drink to the planet’s health
As of 2008, FIJI Water offers a carbon negative product.
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Call for editorial submissions
Have you got an exciting new product or innovative processing technique that you want to share with others in the food and beverage industry?
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The lite side of packaging
Propac Industrial Pty Ltd has introduced a new economy model to their Vertical Form Fill Seal Packaging Machine range.
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