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Kellogg will close its snack plant on the NSW Central Coast at the end of next year and will shift its operations to Thailand.

Coopers has raised the curtain on its new $16.5 million bottling line at the company's Regency Park brewery in South Australia.

NSW Fair Trading is calling for an enforceable national standard for free-range egg claims as a result of a "super complaint" by Choice.

Lion's new $60 million Little Creatures Brewery in Geelong will more than double Little Creatures' brewing capacity in Australia.

The consumer organisation Choice has accused the food industry of undermining the five star front-of-pack food labelling system.

SA confectionery company and maker of FruChocs, Robern Menz, has cleaned up at the 2013 South Australian Food Industry Awards.

Yoghurt protein claims are a fast rising food trend around the world, led by the USA, according to Innova Market Insights.

Australia is facing an egg shortage in the lead up to Christmas as a result of the October outbreak of bird flu on two NSW poultry farms.

Fairtrade brand Qi Tea's Organic Detox Green Tea has been named the best Fairtrade product in Australia.

The Australian owned family company AussieMite that makes a Vegemite alternative of the same name is taking on Dick Smith's OzEmite in court.

Primo Smallgoods has expanded its Queensland footprint with the acquisition of one of the state's largest smallgoods manufacturers.

GrainCorp chief executive Alison Watkins will replace Terry Davis as Coca-Cola Amatil's MD after resigning on the back of the failed ADM takeover.

Saputo's mission to woo WCB shareholders has suffered a setback with the Takeovers Panel blocking its bid for at least two months.

The federal government has rejected the proposed takeover of GrainCorp by American company Archer Daniels Midland on the grounds that it was not in the national interest.

WCB shareholders must consider the future of the Australian dairy industry, according to Murray Goulburn, which has trumped Saputo's latest bid.

Organic poultry company, Inglewood Farms, which went into receivership in July, has a new local owner.