Australia's top bartenders went to head to head in a bid to pull the perfect Stella Artois using a 'Nine Step Pouring Ritual' in Sydney this week.

Freedom Foods' Pactum Dairy Group has forged an agreement to supply premium long life dairy milk to Bright Dairy, one of China's largest dairy companies.

The Free Trade Agreement with Japan will provide a boost for Australia's food and grocery exporters according to the AFGC.

Fonterra must stump up $NZ300,000, or just over $A280,000, in charges over last year's whey protein contamination scare.

The competition watchdog has reprimanded Coles over a YouTube cartoon advert on milk price discounting that appeared on its social media channels last year.

Chamoy sauce, cassava flour, chilli and more chilli are among the hottest new flavour trends, according to McCormick Foods' Daniel Moorfield.

Russia has banned Australian chilled and frozen beef from today over claims it has detected trenbolone, a growth stimulant, which it says is unsafe.

Garlo's Pies, the Sydney-based bakery business founded by former rugby league captain Sean Garlick, is expanding into Queensland.

foodpro 2014 is drawing exhibitors from China, United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Singapore, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, according to its organisers.

Lion says it has yet to work through the implications of the loss of a private label contract in Victoria and WA with Woolworths to rival Fonterra.

Goodman Fielder will speed up cost-cutting as a result of deteriorating market conditions, and is predicting lower than expected full-year financial results.

The new owner of WCB, Canadian company Saputo, has announced the closure of four plants in North America as part of an operational efficiency drive.

Patties Foods has appointed Steven Chaur, the former regional MD of industrial company Saint-Gobain, as its new managing director.

The first official Star Trek beer is set to make first contact in North America following a partnership between TV network CBS and a Canadian brewer.

Fonterra reported a net profit after tax for the six months ended January 31 which was down by 53 per cent over the same period a year earlier.

The gluten free movement continues to gather pace with George Weston's Burgen Gluten Free bread launch, and Barilla's introduction of a new pasta product.