Treasury Wine Estates is planning to halt operations at its Ryecroft winery in the McLaren Vale wine region in South Australia. The move is in line with the company's strategy to curb costs and to ramp up investment in other prominent ...
Tags: wineries, Ryecroft winery, Agriculture
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. ...
US based truck modification service provider Fontaine Modification Vocational Services has entered into a partnership with Simard Suspensions to install and distribute Simard's patented AMS twin-steer front suspension for trucks in the US ...
Double and triple bagging bulk meat containers results in high levels of packaging waste. CHEP Pallecon Solutions’ new liner ensures food safety with a single bag. The bags are produced with multiple, ultra-thin layers within a ...
Tags: bulk meat, ultra-thin layers, Packaging
Australia Post has launched a new service called ShopMate, just in time for Christmas and opening the door to US online stores for local shoppers, and no doubt driving to despair more Australian retailers. ShopMate is said to be “a ...
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The latest ABS Retail Trade figures show that Australian retail turnover rose 1.2 per cent in September 2014, seasonally adjusted, following a rise of 0.1 per cent in August 2014. In seasonally adjusted terms the largest contributor to ...
Tags: Retail Turnover, takeaway food
This year’s gradually improving business outlook looks set to continue into 2015, with the latest survey of Australian firms revealing that an increasing number expect to lift their sales and profits, sell their goods and services at ...
Fonterra has officially opened its NZ$126 million UHT greenfield plant in Waitoa, New Zealand. The plant features state-of-the-art Tetra Pak processing and packaging equipment which will produce a range of products including UHT white milk ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, UHT Production
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released its 16th annual container stevedoring monitoring report. “Increased competition is delivering improvements in Australian stevedoring, which build on significant gains ...
Tags: delivering improvements, logistics
Irish producer of alcoholic beverages C&C Group has reported 2.7% slump in operating profits to €69.2m during the six months ending August. The company said that its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation fell ...
Tags: C&C Group, Operating Profits, Food
Anchor Packaging, a manufacturer of rigid packaging, will add the new three-compartment 9” to its Gourmet Classics line of hinged RPET containers. Designed to keep the food fresh and appealing, the new product is best suited to pack ...
Tags: Anchor Packaging, Rpet Line, Printing
According to a statement released by Argentina, China will China to open sorghum market to Argentina. It will create mpetition for the US farmers who have been the main beneficiaries so far of a surge in Chinese demand for the grain ...
Australia-based Perich Group has announced plans to invest around $100m in its dairy operations to accommodate increasing demand for milk products across Asia. As part of the investment, the company will construct new milk manufacturing ...
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Perich Group in Australia is planning to invest around $100m in its dairy operations, in order to cater to the increasing demand for milk products across Asia. The company plans to construct new milk manufacturing plants, develop new ...
Tags: Perich Group, Operations, Food