Young Australian families and young adults are buying Asian vegetable varieties more frequently than last year and are buying more each time, according to the latest Nielsen consumer research. Nielsen Homescan data, taken from 10,000 ...
Tags: vegetable varieties, vegetable
Coles has reported a $1.78 billion profit before interest and tax for the financial year ended 30 June 2015, up 6.6 per cent on the 2014 financial year. Turnover revenue for Coles was $38.20 billion and return on capital was 11 per ...
Tags: hardware chain, Chemical
Roy Morgan Research has revealed most Australians are not actually obsessed with food despite a growing cafe culture and a large number of cooking shows currently airing on TV. After breaking up the nation into segments based on ...
Tags: cafe culture, Food Segments
Seafood producer Safcol has introduced a new ready-to-eat salmon meal range into Australia. The 'Salmon Ready Meal' range comes in the following three varieties: Spanish Paella Style Salmon which consists of wild Alaskan salmon, ...
Tags: Ready-to-Eat Salmon Meals, Safcol, Seafood
Woolworths has expanded its private label ice cream product range. Australian Woolworths supermarkets are now selling the following new ice creams: Apple Tumble 500ml tub – apple flavoured ice cream with a sweet apple ...
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Design Bridge has designed the packaging for Cadbury Milk Tray to mark the centenary year of the product. Design Bridge has chosen five iconic chocolates that remained unaltered since the brand's launch in 1915. It has made some ...
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The Seoul Central District Court has convicted Lotte Confectionery, an arm of Lotte Group, of copying a Japanese snack maker Ezaki Glico's package design. Last year, the Japanese firm had filed a suit against Lotte Confectionery asking it ...
Tags: Snack Packaging, Packaging
Barton Fabrications has installed eighth silo at Plastipak Packaging’s plant in Gresford,UK, as part of the latter’s £10m project to upgrade its preform manufacturing platform. Barton Fabrications, which has its forte in ...
Tags: drinks bottles, PET granules
Valmet will provide a complete OptiConcept M containerboard output line, to Lee & Man in Jiang Xi, China. Scheduled to come on stream between October and December 2016, the machine is designed to produce high-quality containerboard ...
Tags: board machine, winder
Blow-molded plastic containers producer Graham Packaging has laid the cornerstone of its new plant at the South Central Kentucky Industrial Park in the US. Sprawled over 245,000ft2, the new unit is expected to generate an employment ...
Fonterra Brands New Zealand (FBNZ) has introduced a recycling drive through which people in the country can collect yogurt pouches and send them to recycling firm TerraCycle. TerraCycle will either upcycle the pouches into children's ...
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Foods and beverage ingredients firm BioNeutra Global has increased its manufacturing capacity with the acquisition of a production plant in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The transaction is valued at around $7.85m. The company will develop ...
Tags: EFSA approval, FDA
US-based Kulshan Brewing has introduced its Bastard Kat IPA and Full 90 Session Ale in Rexam 12oz. cans. Bastard Kat is an American style West Coast IPA that features citrus notes of the Cascade Hop, while Full 90 Session Ale has crisp, ...
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Lifeway Foods has commenced production of probiotic fermented beverage kefir at its new plant in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The company acquired the former Golden Guernsey dairy plant in May 2013 to ramp up its manufacturing capacity. With ...
In its first estimate for the upcoming season beginning October 2015, the Cotton Association of India (CAI) has pegged the country's cotton production at 380 lakh bales, almost unchanged from the current year's output of 382-383 lakh bales ...
Tags: cotton supply, cotton output