Australia’s ageing population presents opportunities for food and beverage manufacturers, according to Cherie Hugo, a leading Australian dietitian. Ms Hugo delivered a presentation on 12 April 2016 on the topic of “Designing ...
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Residents of the Queensland state capital are being encouraged to suggest their own landmarks to feature on the board via a dedicated Facebook page. Queensland capital, Brisbane is getting its first taste of board game fame as Hasbro ...
Port of Brisbane needs a dedicated freight connection, Mr Abson said. The Infrastructure Association of Queensland is supporting the State Infrastructure Plan and is urging the Palaszczuk Government to fast-track funding to support its ...
A higher proportion of Australians living in rural and regional parts of the country are more likely to purchase cheese than consumers living in the bigger Australian cities says a new report from Roy Morgan Research. In the 12 months to ...
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Food and beverage manufacturers have been invited to participate in a 10-year state government roadmap designed to boost manufacturing in Queensland. Announced by Queensland’s Natural Resources and Mines Minister Dr Anthony ...
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Instead of a traditional Christmas party, over 160 members of Australia's packaging, processing machinery and supply chain and logistics associations spent a day packing a record 1250 hampers for Foodbank to distribute to those in need. ...
Tags: Australian Institute of Packaging, The Foodbank Hampers project
Australia-listed Stanmore Coal has appointed mining contractor Golding to restart production at its Isaac Plains mine in the first half of 2016, the miner said in a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange Thursday. Stanmore ...
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Tax revenue from coal production in the Australian state of Queensland is forecast to rise to A$1.93 billion ($1.4 billion) in fiscal year 2016-2017 (July-June), based on assumptions that hard coking coal prices will average $100/mt in the ...
Coal exports from Australia's Gladstone port exceeded 7 million mt in November, as buyers from China, Japan and South Korea increased their offtake, a report from Gladstone port authority Friday said. Throughput at the port -- which ships ...
Tags: Coal exports, thermal coal, coking coal
ASX-listed Collins Foods, which owns KFC and Sizzler restaurants in Australia, has reported profit growth for the six months ending the 18 October 2015. Total revenue was reported as AUD$269.7 million, a 5.1 per cent increase on the same ...
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Although the preference for Australian over US coal continues, US high vol B is still holding its own in the market. Some buyers are now looking to the next benchmark with expectations of a fall from the current $89/mt FOB Australia. One ...
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Dalrymple Bay coal terminal's exports to India slumped dramatically in October to just 266,700 mt compared with 873,500 mt in September and an on-month decline of 228%, according to shipping data for the Australian terminal released ...
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Thailand's state-owned buyer PTT has deferred the delivery of a tendered LNG cargo until early December because of low downstream consumption, an informed source said Tuesday. PTT bought two cargoes above $6.50/MMBtu from two separate ...
The Platts JKM for January was down 10 cents over the course of the week to $7.475/MMBtu on Friday, after rolling to become the new front month on Monday, November 16. Buying sentiment for the month continued to soften, with limited ...
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Melbourne-based company Frank Green Pty Ltd has launched a ‘SmartBottle’ which allows customers to pay for beverages through an embedded microchip in the bottle. It is also marketed as an environmentally friendly alternative to ...
Tags: Smartbottle, coffee