Australian business magnate Gina Rinehart has purchased Glencoe Station in New South Wales for $30m, to expand her Wagyu beef operation. The Station, which is a 10,000 hectare property in north of Dubbo, is situated 20km away from the ...
Tags: Gina Rinehart, beef, angus herd
The Portavin Group, which bottles and packages wine, considers the entire life of its product including design, recyclability, and end-of-life management. The company is a provider and user of reusable and recyclable packaging, primarily ...
Tags: bottles, packages wine
CEVA Logistics, a supply chain firm, has been awarded two new contracts by Mazda in Australia that will make CEVA Mazda Australia’s sole national provider of transport services. Under the two new contracts, CEVA will manage the ...
The Victorian government banned the sale of powdered alcohol with effect from 1 July 2015, and is urging other States to follow suit, in the wake of a new powdered-alcohol product ‘Palcohol’. The Victorian Minister for ...
The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) has expressed disappointment in the Federal Government’s 2015-16 Budget, which announced the lion’s share of transport infrastructure funding to go toward roads, and no new money for ...
Tags: Rail Industry, rail infrastructure
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) seized a large shipment of ivory being transshipped through Perth. ACBPS officers detected the 110 kilograms of ivory while examining an air cargo shipment from Malawi, being ...
Recommendations by Harper Competition Review receive government fanfare but government promises ‘further consultation’ The Australian Government has released the Final Report of the Harper Competition Policy Review, which has ...
Tags: Government, CCA, Food
Coles says it will absorb price impact after cyclone wipes out Carnarvon banana crop Australian supermarket Coles has indicated it will offer assistance to banana growers in the Carnarvon region of Western Australia, after Cyclone ...
Tags: Coles, Cyclone Olwyn, Agriculture
The future looks bright for electric cars in China amid rapidly fluctuating gasoline prices and huge investments by the government to promote use of clean energy, industry sources said on Monday. However, inadequate battery technologies ...
Tags: Electric Cars, Battery Production
German-owned discount supermarket chain ALDI is planning to continue expanding its presence in Australia with new stores opening in South Australia and Western Australia in the next year, and potential new stores in the eastern states in ...
Tags: stores, Agriculture
Forklift industry sales results for 2014 show that Toyota Material Handling Australia (TMHA) retained overall national forklift market leadership for the sixth consecutive year. TMHA says it also extended its uninterrupted dominance ...
University of Sydney-based research centre the Fresh Produce Safety Centre has launched two landmark research projects, which it says are aimed at improving the safety of Australian and New Zealand fresh produce. Australian Food News ...
Eating one avocado a day as part of a heart healthy, cholesterol-lowering moderate-fat diet can help improve bad cholesterol levels in overweight and obese individuals, according to new research published in the Journal of the American ...
Tags: moderate-fat diet, bad cholesterol levels, Agriculture
An alliance of Australia’s beverage manufacturers has responded to speculation that New South Wales could introduce a Container Deposit Scheme for beverage packaging, saying recent research has shown such schemes are “many times ...
Concerns about labelling and a desire for convenience are trends that are set to continue into 2015, according to global market research organisation Innova Market Insights. Innova Market Insights has released its overview of the Top Ten ...
Tags: Food, Beverage, Agriculture