The Company has 15 stores in Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand, Qatar, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Administrators have been appointed to the Company’s Australian operations, which include four Jones the Grocer stores in ...
Tags: grocery retailing, Agriculture
On 16 December 2014, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) released its approved version of the latest revision of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code (the Food Standards Code). The new Food Standards Code requires only the ...
Tags: Food Standards Code, Agriculture
US-based frozen fish and seafood processor High Liner Foods has opened new facility in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The 38,000ft2 facility, which is the company's new headquarters, features advanced communications technology, culinary ...
Tags: frozen fish, seafood, Agriculture
Immaculate Baking, a subsidiary of General Mills, has expanded its product range with the introduction of two new ready-to-bake holiday refrigerated dough offerings. The two limited edition offerings are Immaculate Baking Panettone and ...
A simple potato extract may limit weight gain from a diet that is high in fat and refined carbohydrates, according to research from McGill University in Canada. The study, published in the November 2014 issue of the Molecular Nutrition ...
Tags: Potato, Agriculture
New EU food labelling laws have been introduced in the UK, requiring restaurants and takeaway outlets to tell customers if any of the main 14 food allergen ingredients are in the food served by the food outlet. The EU Food Information for ...
Tags: Labelling Rules, Restaurants, Agriculture
Australia’s growing appetite for healthy, convenient, pre-packaged salads is seeing the construction of the largest fresh cut salad facility of its kind in New South Wales, thanks to a new deal between producer of value-added ...
Tags: deli salads, baby beetroot, avocadoes, Agriculture
American meat processor Monogram Foods will invest $36.5m to expand the production operations at its Martinsville facility in Virginia. The 54,000ft2 expansion will create 100 jobs by July 2015, while 100 more jobs will be added over the ...
Tags: meat processor, Agriculture
Holle Baby Food is recalling all batches of certain Holle branded and Lebenswert branded baby foods from across the UK as they may contain atropine and scopolamine, according to the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA). The products associated ...
Reliant Beverage Company, maker of Reliant Recovery Water, has hired Bill Germano as president. "We are thrilled to have Bill join the Reliant team," said Eric Russell, CEO of Reliant Beverage Company. "He brings with him a wealth of ...
Tags: Beverage, Agriculture
The American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) today announced a three-year communications effort to educate consumers. The goal is to reach beyond the seed industry to educate the general public about the role of seed and seed improvement in ...
Tags: Seed Improvement, Agriculture
Linpac calls the UK home. But it has had a manufacturing site in Bunbury, Perth since 2013 and in 2015 it will have a new one in Melbourne. With a site on both the east and west sides of Australia, Linpac intends to supply the latest design ...
Tags: manufacturing site, technology, Packaging
Swedish food packaging and processing company Tetra Pak has launched a new Environmental Benchmarking Service to help food and beverage companies assess the environmental performance of their production operations. The service helps in ...
Food manufacturing was one of four manufacturing sub-sectors to expand in November 2014, according to the Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian PMI). Food manufacturing expansion Among the ...
Tags: Dairy Products, beverages, tobacco
New categories in the organic sector in Australia have driven record growth in the $1.72 billion industry, according to a biennial industry report from organic certifying group Australian Organic. The Australian Organic Market Report is a ...
Tags: Organic Foods, Food