The labels of the #MyFamilyCan range by Goulburn Valley, Ardmona and SPC now show off the local growers and farmers who produce the food within. SPC and its advertising agency, Leo Burnett Melbourne came up with the idea to ...
Tags: Australian produce, families shop, Packaging
Favourable macro factors such as urbanisation and the expanding middle class continued to support new retailer expansion across Asia Pacific in 2014. The number of new entrants rose to 464, an increase of 23 per cent year-on-year. ...
Car rental company Enterprise Holdings has named Australian car rental company Redspot as its franchise partner in New Zealand and Australia. Enterprise presently operates fleet of 1.5 million vehicles, in more than 70 countries through ...
Tags: Car, vehicles, Auto Parts
Reebok and Les Mills, both pioneers in group fitness, are creating a series of one-day festivals that will see crowds of up to 6,000 people working out in unison at iconic venues across the world. Pumping music, state of the art ...
Tags: Reebok, Les Mills, Sporting Goods
Tim Woods, managing director of IndustryEdge, knows that corrugated packaging is the powerhouse of Australasia’s paper industry. Here, he explains why. Australia and New Zealand use the full array of fibre packaging options, from ...
Tags: Virgin material, Virginity, Packaging
Australian packaging company Orora has secured a new supply agreement with dairy group Fonterra where the former will supply multi-walled dairy bags to Fonterra’s New Zealand operations. Orora will also construct a AU$20m ($15.25m) ...
Tags: Dairy Bags, Orora, Packaging
Chips were implanted into the back of those employees' hands that from the Epicenter hi tech office block in Stockholm. The microchips allows them to use the photocopier, open security doors and even pay for their lunch. The chips which ...
Tags: microchips, RFID
Melbourne-based cafe network Degani has launched its first retail product line, a range of fruit syrups, available to consumers from March 2015. Comprising seven 750ml syrup flavours, three fruit frappe products and four 250ml retail ...
Tags: syrup, Degani, Fruit Frappes
The Ministers who met last Friday at the Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation have said they are “extremely concerned” about consumption of unpasteurised (raw) cow’s milk that is sold as ...
Tags: Raw Milk Consumption, Raw Milk
Melbourne-based confectionery company Betta Foods has entered into administration, in an attempt to save the business by selling it. Established in 1954, Betta Foods produces liquorice and marshmallow products under the Capricorn and ...
Australian food marketing and distribution business Menora Foods is reportedly set to be sold to Filipino food conglomerate Monde Nissin Corporation. Menora was established in Melbourne in 1967 and is Australia’s largest ...
Tags: juice company, Agriculture
After 10 years at the helm of Amcor, Ken MacKenzie has decided to retire from the position of managing director and chief executive officer, Amcor chairman, Graeme Liebelt announced on 22 January. “I believe after 10 years in the ...
Australia’s oldest chocolate business, the iconic Ernest Hillier has been placed into voluntary administration, and a meeting with creditors will take place on Tuesday 20 January 2014. Hillier’s administrator, Bruno Secatore ...
Tags: chocolate business, Agriculture
Supermarket dumping of cage eggs could result in egg shortages Egg producers have continued to express concerns about the impact on Australia’s egg industry of moves by supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths, and fast food chain ...
Tags: Cage Eggs, Supermarket, Agriculture
One of Australia’s most iconic food brands Dairy Bell Ice Cream has decided voluntarily to shut down after 44 years of manufacturing ice cream in Australia, and has told Australian Food News that its assets are available for sale. ...
Tags: Ice Cream, Agriculture