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Awareness of the importance of dietary fibre has been growing steadily in recent years and heightened by COVID-19. Beneo's Christian Philippsen looks at the role of digestive health to stay healthy.

Freedom Foods Group has recorded a return to profit, with CEO Michael Perich declaring the company’s financial, structural, operational, and cultural reset largely complete.

Bega Cheese generated normalised earnings before interest, depreciation and tax (EBITDA) of $141.7 million in FY2021, up 38 per cent on FY20.

The collapse of the daigou/reseller and ecommerce channels and subsequent inventory write-downs had a bruising impact on The a2 Milk Company, with the business recording a 77.6 per cent fall in revenue in FY21.

We ask industry leaders five questions about their working life. This month we talk to Robert Iervasi from Asahi Beverages.

HRS Heat Exchangers met a challenging brief to supply a customer in Australia with a compact yet efficient heat exchanger to process viscous dairy products.

Woolworths Group’s FY21 group net profit cracked $2 billion, rising 77.8 per cent to $2.07 billion, with the caveat the figure was before adjusting for the demerger of Endeavour Group.

The APPMA and RMIT have launched the results of an in-depth study examining the opportunities and barriers for the Australian packaging and processing machinery sector to tackle food waste.

CEO Michael Perich says the two appointments complete the “comprehensive renewal" of the leadership team.

When you have delivered more than 60 million ready meals in nine years, variety really does become the spice of maintaining and growing your customer base.

It took two hungry brothers looking for ready-meal options post gym work-out to create My Muscle Chef. Last year the brand made $150 million in sales.

New Zealand private equity firm South Island Office has bought the ANZ operations of Sara Lee from McCain Foods. McCain announced in October 2020 it was looking to sell the business.

Woolworths and Uber Eats have joined forces to provide same hour grocery delivery from a select group of Metro stores. Customers will be offered a curated range of around 1200 products.

Around 80 per cent of Australians are opting for at least one meat-free day a week, with only 1 in 5 eating meat every day, research by consumer intelligence platform Toluna says.

Perfection Fresh has launched a consumer traceability and provenance discovery tool for raspberries from its farms in Caboolture, Queensland.

A focus on ecommerce and acquisitions has paid dividends for Maggie Beer Holdings (MBH), with the company recording a FY21 net profit after tax of $1.9 million compared to a lost of $14.8 million in FY20.