Coles will integrate health products, traditionally stocked in the health food aisle, into their respective categories across the store. The breakfast aisle has been first to undergo transformation.

The brewing industry is in the grip of its own #metoo moment, with a recent outpouring in the US of sexual discrimination and harassment stories. Joshua Gliddon talks to Australian women brewers and distillers about their experience.

Start-up climate change program WorkForClimate launched this week to give professionals and corporations resources to tackle the climate crisis in their day-to-day work lives.

The second round of Manufacturing Modernisation Fund (MMF) grants has awarded more than $25.3 million to 37 food and beverage manufacturers, including Modus Operandi's NORT beer and five other breweries. The fund allocated $55 million in total to 86 companies across Australia.

Forbidden Foods has signed an exclusive deal with Winhealth Pharma to distribute its infant brand FUNCH on ecommerce platform Kaola and largest online retailer JD.com.

Guidelines for the federal government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative’s Collaboration Stream have been released, with $20-$200 million available for large-scale projects.

Goodman Fielder has set itself the goal of halving its food waste by 2030. Kim Berry talks to head of sustainability Mick Anderson about what the company is doing to achieve that.

Another packed issue for you all. We take a look inside Arnott’s new Good Food Partner’s factory, profile some of Australia’s best brewers, shine a light on a start-up that is upcycling coffee fruit and so much more. We also see COVID-19’s hand and raise it a 30+ page foodpro preview that we can now all call the Food & Drink Business Foodpro Lockdown Special.

The release of Coles Group’s full Sustainability Strategy brings together its Together to Zero and Better Together initiatives and aligns to nine of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

I Am Grounded co-founders Vanessa Murillo and Lachlan Powell are changing the way we look at coffee – as a food. Doris Prodanovic finds out how coffee fruit waste is upcycled into functional snack foods.

Meal kit company Hello Fresh will open a new 25,500 square metre production and distribution centre in Victoria in July, employing 350 people from pick packers to quality control and management positions.

Fonterra has agreed sell its two joint venture farms in China for US$115.5 million. It has a 51 per cent stake in the JV and will receive NZ$88 million from the sale.

Due to the latest COVID-19 outbreak in Sydney, the organisers of foodpro2021 have postponed the event to 10-13 October, 2021. With the event due to start in just four weeks, foodpro event manager Melissa Clendinen said the recent developments and ongoing uncertainty, forced the difficult decision

Costa Group has acquired 2PH Farms for $220 million, saying the move will allow the group to supply the Asian market with year-round citrus.

Retail drinks and hotels business Endeavour Group has commenced trading on the ASX (Code: EDV). The listing follows Woolworths shareholders voting in favour of the demerger on 18 June.

Wide Open Agriculture will develop an in-house lupin and plant-based protein manufacturing facility in Western Australia. The expected cost of the initial construction is $1.6 million.