The new Country of Origin Labelling (CoOL) for Australia's food packaging was given the final go-ahead by commonwealth, state and territory consumer affairs ministers this week. Each label will indicate the proportion of Australian ...
Tags: Country of Origin, CoOL, Green Light, Food packaging
Mead Johnson Nutrition (MJN) will co-locate a packaging plant with the nutritional powders plant dairy company Murray Goulburn (MG) plans to build in Victoria. MG has forged long-term supply agreements with global paediatric nutrition ...
Tags: MJN, MG, Nutrition Packaging
Murray Goulburn has signed a five-year national private label contract to supply Coles-brand Australian cheese The move is part of MG’s ongoing push to secure critical mass in Australia's dairy foods market. MG said it would ...
Tags: Coles'Cheese, Murray Goulburn
New Galaxy research has found that nine in 10 Australian shoppers are willing to switch supermarkets in order to save money. Commissioned by Aldi, it was discovered that on average a 38 per cent saving would be required before shoppers ...
Tags: fresh fruit, vegetables, fresh meat
On Friday 30 October 2015, Australia’s leading complementary healthcare product-maker Blackmores and Australian dairy group Bega Cheese announced the two companies would be teaming up to produce and sell infant formula for consumers ...
Tags: infant formula, Baby Formula
The Australian Made Campaign has reminded businesses to boost country-of-origin branding on products as part of its strategy to leverage new export opportunities available via the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). “The TPP will ...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has this week been finalised after negotiations began in 2010. The TPP centers on a free trade zone between 12 countries located around the Pacific rim including Australia, the US, New Zealand, ...
PKN spoke to Matilda's Frozen Fruit co-founder Ruth Gallace about transparency of on-pack information on the brand's soon-to-launch frozen berries range. The launch of frozen Australian-grown berries is now only weeks away, according to ...
Tags: Frozen Fruit, berries
SumoSalad creates concept shop for a ethical local food consumer demographic Australian salad bar group SumoSalad has opened the doors to its first ‘Green Label’ concept store. SumoSalad has grown quickly into a successful ...
Australian Made Campaign welcomes delay and more consultation on Country of Origin labels The Australian Made Campaign has welcomed the Government’s decision to consult with stakeholders and undertake consumer research into its ...
Tags: Made Campaign, consumer demand, Agriculture
It was reported on 25 March 2015 that new Country of Origin Labelling laws will be delayed until at least August 2015 despite the Prime Minister’s announcement on 16 February 2015 that country of origin labelling proposals for reform ...
Tags: FSANZ, dietary supplements, Food
The latest data from the Australian Industry Group (AIG) Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI) indicates that Australia's manufacturing sector has contracted for the third month in a row, and that subdued domestic demand is ...
Victorian company Patties Foods has expanded its recall of more frozen berry products due to a possible hepatitis A contamination, with at least five people having contracted the infection already. Following the food scare, farmers in ...
Tags: Patties Foods, Packaging
Australia’s green-and-gold kangaroo, the Australian Made, Australian Grown (AMAG) logo, has become a registered certification trade mark in Singapore. Every year for the past three years the logo has made its mark in another Asian ...
File image courtesy of Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. Hunt & Hunt lawyers, together with the Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA), has made a joint submission to Customs regarding its proposed changes to the criteria for ...