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Kim Berry brings you the highlights, trends, and innovations on show at foodpro 2026. From Day 2: giving Individual Quick Freezing a good shake, high protein, high fibre, no added sugar soft serve ice cream, ingredients for your feelings, and GLP-1 companion drinks. Sponsored by Bürkert Australia. Read more
With foodpro just weeks away and the Hive Awards winners recently crowned, the latest issue of Food & Drink Business is a reminder that an industry grows stronger when it gets in a room together. Our foodpro preview, Hive Awards review, and wrap of ConTech’s 30th conference are testimony to that. There are profiles of foodpro exhibitors, a spirited Rising Star, industry news and so much more.
Welcome to the June edition of PLAY, your monthly wrap-up of the biggest stories shaping Australia's food and beverage manufacturing industry. This month we're looking at global investment, food tech, wine, innovation, and a strategic reset for one of Australia's best-known food brands. Let's get into it.
Our Top 100 2025 edition of Food & Drink Business magazine is more than the annual flagship Top 100 Report. Industry leaders reflect on the year past and the one ahead, we provide our annual news review, M&A wrap-up, and all the executive moves, and a Roman-inspired sports drink, Posca, is our final Rising Star for 2025.
Food & Drink Business and IBISWorld present this year’s Top 100 companies, a ranking of Australia’s largest food and drink companies by revenue. This year reflects a sector positioning itself for immediate term viability and long-term competitiveness.
At foodpro 2026, Lindy Hughson caught up with Claudio Baldini from CEIA on the Heat and Control stand to discuss the Australian debut of the company's latest industrial metal detection technology.
Food & Drink Business editor Kim Berry spoke with Nelson Chymiak, National Engineering Manager at Bürkert Australia, about the latest valve control technologies on display at the company's stand.
Lindy Hughson spoke with Glenn Harris, GM, Food Processor & Industry Division at Bunzl ANZ, about the products on show to help processors improve efficiency, sustainability and overall cost-in-use.
Selecting the right compressed air system can have a significant impact on food safety, operating costs and energy consumption, as Kim Berry learns from Peter Furolo, BDM at ELGi Equipments
Lindy Hughson speaks to Steve Stewart, head of sales and applications at Flexopack, about the company's expanded local manufacturing capability and technical expertise.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of the food manufacturing conversation, but its success depends on integration with existing systems and data. Kim Berry speaks to Markus Witor of CSB-System.
Australian owned global packaging supplier Detpak has opened a multi-million dollar manufacturing facility in South Carolina, to produce paper-based packaging for quick service restaurant customers in the United States.
Robert Marguccio will step down as APPMA chair and board director at the association's AGM in October, citing increasing professional commitments after 20 years of service.
Orora has unveiled a new lightweight Riesling bottle that reduces glass weight by 21 per cent while maintaining the familiar profile and performance expected by Australian wine producers.
