New Zealand Government has announced plans to introduce a new Health Star Rating food labeling system, which will help in making healthy food choices. New Zealand Food Safety Minister Nikki Kaye said that cabinet has agreed to adopt ...
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Using plain packaging for cigarettes has resulted in 15% drop in smoking rate in Australia, according to a survey. The survey, which was carried on people aged 14 years and above in December 2013, found that plain packaging had ...
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Luxembourg-based Ardagh Group has signed a 15-year agreement with West Yorkshire-based Reuse to expand glass recycling in the UK. The company has joined forces with the Australian recycling and waste management company United Resource ...
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Opel has recalled 2012 and 2013 models of its Opel Astra, Corsa, Insignia and Zafira due to omission of important information from the owner’s manual. According to Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, a total of 3,047 ...
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Universal Robina, a subsidiary of Philippines' JG Summit Holdings, is set to acquire New Zealand-based Griffin's Foods from Australian Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) for about NZ$700m ($609m). Universal already has presence in Thailand, ...
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Campbell Soup Company announced plans to launch more than 200 new products in fiscal 2015 to meet consumers' changing tastes, preferences and needs. During a presentation with investors, President and Chief Executive Officer Denise ...
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Prices in China's domestic thermal coal market slumped dramatically in Monday's Asian trading session as the effect of Shenhua's cut to its thermal coal prices late last week and depressed buying interest among Chinese power plants took a ...
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Australian iron ore miner Atlas Iron has announced that it has beaten its full year guidance after shipping a record 3.1 million wet metric tons of iron ore in the quarter ended on June 30, increasing by 14.8 percent compared to the ...
Zumtobel Group LED sales rose by 52.6 per cent compared to last year to €419 million. LED products now account for 33.6 per cent of revenues. These figures from the company’s 2013/14 financial results correlate with the ...
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ASWGA welcomes the positive step by Italian luxury fashion label Ermenegildo Zegna into the Australian wool production industry, with its joint venture with Achill, a 175 year old sheep property in the NSW New England Region. Zegna ...
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In February this year, The Lockyer Valley Farmers board announced plans for a new $40 million beetroot canning facility in Grantham, west of Brisbane. The cannery would also process locally grown peas, beans, potatoes and corn, and would be ...
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One of the side effects of the world's deciding to avoid gluten and an increasingly insistent need to produce food sources of protein, is a surge in the popularity of lupins - legumes like soybeans, peas and lentils. In Australia, lupins ...
New ABS Retail Trade figures show that Australian retail turnover fell 0.5 per cent in May 2014, seasonally adjusted, following a fall of 0.1 per cent in April 2014. The largest contributor to the fall was clothing, footwear and personal ...
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When the UK government's plans to introduce aversion packaging on cigarettes began its fight with Big Tobacco at the beginning of June, a battle broke out in Australia too. It took two weeks for the Australian government to quash it. By ...
SEW-Eurodrive's Victorian sales and product manager, Darren Klonowski, has been responding to the same enquiry over and over this year: "Food and beverage manufacturers are finding it beneficial to source a comprehensive drive service ...