New Zealanders are paying the most of any country for food, with new reports showing significant increases in the last five years.
30/01/2012 |
Workers at Tip Top’s Caning Vale factory have been given the green light to begin industrial action following three months of unsuccessful negotiations.
25/01/2012 |
Dick Smith is doing his bit to ensure the survival of Australian food businesses, opening a store exclusively stocking local products.
24/01/2012 |
New research shows more evidence that our busy lifestyles are contributing to our expanding waistlines.
23/01/2012 |
OMEGAMITE Yeast Breakfast Spread is an innovative world first product developed and made in Australia with the benefits of OMEGA-3 DHA+EPA , fish oil making a dynamite impact on the spreads market being smart and tasty.
20/01/2012 |
The co-operative formed to keep manufacturing and tourism alive in the Girgarre region, following the relocation of the Heinz tomato processing facility, has made a second bid for the factory.
13/01/2012 |
Following much publicity and outrage, the Girgarre Heinz tomato processing factory was officially closed on Saturday.
09/01/2012 |
Obesity, advertising and live export were just some of the top stories at Food Magazine this year.
There was also supermarket wars, awards and royals on the agenda in what was a very busy year for the food manufacturing industry.
Here, we take a look back at the year that was.
16/12/2011 |
A South Australian abattoir has been fined $45 500 after a holiday worker suffered hand at the site.
13/12/2011 |
Kraft Foods, which acquired British confectionary company over a year ago, will invest £50 million (AU$76 million) into boosting production, but also plans to slash 200 jobs.
12/12/2011 |
Traces of radiation have been found in baby formula manufactured in Japan following the Fukashima disaster March.
12/12/2011 |
Representatives from state federal and New Zealand governments will meet today to discuss the controversial traffic light nutrition labels.
09/12/2011 |
For the animal industry and the animal protection movement, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) pending case against poultry producer Steggles is set to be their very own version of the OJ Simpson trials – absolutely gripping!
09/12/2011 |
All this discussion about food labelling, obesity, additives, good fats versus bad fats, good carbs versus bad carbs is enough to make anyone’s head spin.
08/12/2011 |
A new report has revealed Woolworths’ plan to rapidly increase its private label products is overly ambitious.
07/12/2011 |
Regular Coke cans and bottles are already suggesting mates you should share your beverage with, and the lower calorie version of the drink is now singing its lifestyle benefits from the rooftops too.
05/12/2011 |
The number of industrial disputes in Australia is on the rise, according to the latest statistics released by the Australian Bureau of Statistic (ABS).
02/12/2011 |
Can you feel that? That warmth, those smells, that happiness in the air?
02/12/2011 |
Nestle has announced it will conduct an investigation into the presence of child labour in its business, following accusations children are employed on cocoa farms that supply to its factories.
30/11/2011 |
The Australian Workers Union and the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union have called on the Prime Minister to establish a more permanent form of a manufacturing taskforce.
30/11/2011 |