Brazil’s JBS buys Primo Smallgoods Australia’s largest meat processor, marketer and export JBS Australia has signed a $1.45 billion deal to acquire ham, bacon and smallgoods producer Primo Smallgoods. The brands of the Primo ...
Tags: ham, bacon, smallgoods, Agriculture
Acrostic jewelry uses the first letter of each gemstone set in the jewelry to spell out certain messages or terms of endearment. Among the most popular was “regard”--ruby, emerald, garnet, amethyst, ruby and diamond--spelled out ...
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South Australia's family-owned brewery, Coopers, said it experienced ongoing growth during the 2013-14 financial year with record sales and turnover figures. Its profits, however, dropped by 9.1%. Coopers is now the largest ...
Linpac’s 16 plants throughout the world are about to get an Australian sibling. The UK packaging company is investing $22 million in its first Australian manufacturing headquarters, at Truganina, in Melbourne’s west. ...
Interim Victorian Transport Association (VTA) CEO Peter Anderson has urged political parties to ‘take the blinkers off” and look at the bigger picture rather than focusing on just one piece of the puzzle. Mr Anderson said the ...
Tags: Melbourne Traffic
The Consumer Action Law Centre has welcomed the Competition Policy Review Draft Report and its emphasis ‘on protecting competition and not competitors.’ But Consumer Action will be asking the review’s panellists to ...
Tags: energy market, Consumer Action Law
Designed to appeal to a broader consumer group while reinforcing its premium positioning, the new look brings forward the portrait of Henry Weston, Westons’ founder, to tie Henry ‘the man’ closer to the brand name, with a ...
Tags: New Design, Henry Westons, Packaging
Melbourne’s controversial new road proposal, the East-West Link, which the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects declared an ‘environmental disaster’, has received the backing of the Victorian truckers’ body ...
Tags: VTA, East-West Link tunnel
Victorian Shadow Minister for industrial relations, ports, freight and logistics Natalie Hutchins (pictured) is questioning the Napthine Government’s case for the Port of Hastings. "The Napthine Government is determined to proceed ...
"A new poll has revealed that many Victorian employees take sick days or are affected by drugs at work. The poll conducted by the Australian Drug Foundation found that 10% of Victorian employees had either taken a day off and/or gone to ...
The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator has issued its first safety and compliance alert to industry, following early observations of investigators on the recent fatal fuel tanker crash in country Victoria. NHVR chief executive Sal ...
SEW-Eurodrive's Victorian sales and product manager, Darren Klonowski, has been responding to the same enquiry over and over this year: "Food and beverage manufacturers are finding it beneficial to source a comprehensive drive service ...
Phase two of Mondelez Food Innovation Centre commences at Ringwood Global food manufacturing giant Mondelēz International has begun construction on stage two of the Food Innovation Centre at Ringwood, Victoria, continuing the ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Doing away with the superfluous to gain light, space, and functionality was the goal of FORM Design Architecture in refitting the Bermondsey Warehouse Loft in south London. Changes in the distribution of space and the use of high-quality ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Construction, Decoration, Floor
Renault’s 100 per cent electric-powered delivery vans will shortly join Australia Post’s fleet in Melbourne and Sydney. The Renault Kangoo Maxi Z.E. (Zero Emission) electric van, currently not sold in Australia, is widely used ...
Tags: Electric Vans, Renault