As Sustainable Seafood Week begins, winners from this year’s Sustainable Seafood Awards have been revealed. The awards showcase those following responsible seafood farming and sustainable fishing practices.

There have been significant changes to R&D Tax Incentive claims. RSM Australia’s Jessica Olivier provides Food & Drink Business readers with a guide to R&D Tax Incentives in ANZ.

An initiative launched to develop strawberry varieties that can be easily harvested by robots will see scientists meld together the flavour, colour and aroma traits from premium strawberry varieties to create single stemmed fruit ideal for robotic picking.

The 34th Banksia Awards saw Woolworths Group win the Gold Banksia Award and the Large Business Sustainable Leadership Award.

Food & Drink Business brings you a weekly round-up of the Top 5 news stories in the food and beverage sector.This week: Impossible Foods’ border rejection, Bega’s plant-based cheese, Mars Global CEO’s advice, Great Wrap’s new invention, and Eighth Day Foods’ success.

Mars Wrigley has partnered with supermarket retailer Coles to trial new sustainable off-location displays made from ocean-bound plastic. It will potentially reduce 74 tonnes of cardboard from Coles’ value chain.

The costs to business of not addressing the climate crisis are starting to exceed the costs of the necessary changes, former CEO of Unilever and now environmental advocate Paul Polman told attendees at Rabobank's Farm2Fork summit.

Nestlé has released its 2022 Annual Report alongside its Creating Shared Value and Sustainability Report. For the first time, the reports provide an overview of the nutritional value of Nestlé's global portfolio.

Cargill has released its latest proprietary TrendTracker study, sharing insight into global macro trends at the 26th Food Ingredients China, held in Shanghai.

Kellogg Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) has announced the appointment of experienced FMCG leader, Kate Collareda as IT director, joining the Kellogg ANZ Leadership team.

As the media spotlight remains fixed on Australia’s recycling performance, Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) CEO Tanya Barden has responded saying the low rate of plastic packaging recycling is disappointing for industry, but projections for future recycling capacity show important progress is being made.

The Australian fisheries and aquaculture outlook report 2023 says the gross value of Australian fisheries and aquaculture production is forecast to rise 8 per cent in 2022−23, hitting $3.63 billion.

A border inspection of a random sample of Impossible Foods’ plant-based Chicken Nuggets being shipped into Australia in January was rejected for containing calcium pantothenate.

Leaders of more than 30 of the country’s most influential peak bodies have formed the National Alliance for Regionalisation to better position regional areas to achieve their potential.

Mars global CEO Poul Weihrauch says the company doesn't believe that “purpose and profits are enemies”, and warns businesses of the risks in not having meaningful ESG principles.

Good & Fugly has launched in Brisbane, following it's Melbourne launch last year. The company is looking for Queensland farmers who have cosmetically challenged produce or surplus stock.