In the next few years, Unilever has pledged a worldwide effort to reduce the salt content of almost its entire food portfolio, covering 22,000 products. Unilever’s aim is to reduce the salt content...

Fonterra’s The Pastryhouse business will begin supplying premium pastries to McDonald’s McCafés across Australia and New Zealand this month as the fast-food giant looks to capture a greater...

Trampoline, the Melbourne born gelato franchise, is in the middle of a month-long celebration of its fifth birthday, with the opening of its eighth store in Melbourne and the announcement of plans to launch...

WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) has recently begun a scoping project with the aim of enabling retailers and brands to use recycled polypropylene plastic in food packaging.Polypropylene is...

Coles boss Ian McLeod has today informed analysts of the rapid change taking place at Coles but remained cautious about the future despite announcing third quarter sales growth of 6 per cent – well...

PepsiCo has proposed to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock it does not already own in its two largest anchor bottlers, The Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas, in a move that has...

Sydney restaurant Tetsuya’s has again been named best restaurant in Australia at an awards ceremony in London overnight, where a list of the World’s Best 50 restaurants was announced. The...

Food security and the role of agriculture in the recovery from the global recession was high on Australia’s agenda for the G8+ Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting, the Federal Government has advised. The...

The Coles turnaround continues to gather momentum, with their third quarter food and liquor sales up 7.6% to $5.3b. After an adjustment for the late Easter third quarter sales rose by 8.3%, with comparable...

A global survey released last week has demonstrated that support for Fairtrade is on the rise. Ahead of World Fair Trade Day on 9 May, the survey on Fairtrade discovered that shoppers increasingly expect...