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Juice makers have had to face changing fruit prices, cost pressures and a challenging retail environment, including competition from private labels in recent years.

Beer gets crafty

Premium and craft beers have stolen market share from the big mainstream brands in a big beer manufacturing shake-up.

Aggressive pricing and changing consumer trends have restrained growth in the soft drink sector, according to IBISWorld.

Latin Americans and Asians have been swigging coconut drinks for years, but marketers are cleverly capitalising on the Western health craze of consuming coconut-everything.

Liquid water enhancers are the latest thing to hit the Australian beverage market, with concentrated flavours in an easy-to-use format.

Retailers and FMCG manufacturers will benefit from the products and ideas at The Naturally Good Expo, opening this Sunday at Sydney’s Moore Park.

Alcohol companies are using the power of social media to to merge drinking culture with sport culture, according to an Australian study.

Closure could be the next step for South Australian United Dairy Power which has been placed into administration after unsuccessfully searching for a buyer.

George Weston Foods has blamed a weaker first half result on the recent round of price cuts to private label bread by supermarkets.

Lion is poised to break ground on a new White Rabbit Brewery to be located at its Little Creatures site in Geelong.

Three food and beverage companies have been named in the top twenty most attractive employers in Australia.

Coles has announced a $50 million Nurture Fund to help small Australian growers, manufacturers and food and grocery producers.

Coke still flexes significant muscle when it comes to soft drink consumption in Australia according to Roy Morgan Research.

Newspapers are pointing to a successful Penfolds campaign that they say illustrates their strength as an ad platform for alcohol companies.

Rabobank says signs of a revival in demand in the high-income Japanese wine market augur well for Australian wine producers.

Australian Organic is exhibiting at the food and beverage show SIAL China in May for the first time and is taking nine Aussie companies with it.