The recently rebadged Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has announced Coca-Cola Amatil managing director Peter West will head up its new Australia, Pacific and Indonesia Business Unit.

A gamified QR code app is set to pull a company’s carbon offsets out of its sustainability report and onto retail shelves says the developer, supply chain digitalisation specialist Fresh Supply Company.

With 15 key beer brands, brewing giant Lion turned to Dematic to automate its largest facility, the Tooheys Brewery in Lidcombe, New South Wales.

Victoria’s Traditional Owners have released a strategy restoring their leadership of the state’s native foods and botanicals industry. The strategy is an Australian first and backed by the Victorian Government.

The world’s largest animal protein company JBS has entered an agreement to purchase Europe’s third-largest plant-based food producer Vivera for $528.8 million (341 Euro).

The Supreme Court of NSW has approved the Scheme of Arrangement for Coca-Cola European Partners to buy Coca-Cola Amatil. CCEP has also announced a name change to Coca-Cola Europacific Partners.

Steel City Beer Company is set to become “a beer the people of the Hunter can call their own” as it partners with beverage giant Lion to launch its brewery in Newcastle.

Australian Food Cold Chain Council chair, Mark Mitchell, has called on the entire industry across the Asia Pacific to take action to reduce waste which has reached mammoth proportions globally.

Rabobank is calling on Australian food and agri start-ups to showcase their business in the annual international FoodBytes! Pitch competition.

South Australian certified organic winemaker Angove Family Winemakers has won a gold medal for its 2019 Naturalis Organic Cabernet Sauvignon at the latest Australian Organic Wine Awards.

The world’s largest macadamia processor Marquis Macadamias will expand its Bundaberg facility and increase processing capacity by 25 per cent, with support from the Queensland Government’s $175 million Jobs & Regional Growth Fund.

Smarties is set to become the first global confectionery brand entirely sold in recyclable paper packaging, as Nestlé announces the switch to the recyclable option for the confectionery range in Australia,

In just over 50 years, Australia’s consumption of chicken increased tenfold. Industry expert and journalist Peter Bedwell provides an overview of the poultry sector.

The international marine bioproducts market is estimated to be worth around $175 billion a year. Kim Berry writes about a university/industry research project that is looking to tap into this lucrative sector.

Australia’s only commercial plant protein fraction company Australian Plant Proteins has secured $45.7 million from global agrifood business Bunge. The investment will see the company double its plant protein isolates production by March 2022.

Chobani has partnered with property developer Aliro to double the footprint of its Victorian site to 21,000 square metres. The expanded site is expected to be completed by May 2022.