Manufacturers have been urged to support the industry-backed GS1 GoScan consumer app which hit the iTunes store yesterday.

Tasmanian Dairy Products has opened a new multimillion dollar processing facility to produce milk products for export.

Coca-Cola Amatil has announced that its chief executive Terry Davis will retire in August 2014.

Cowra cannery Windsor Farm Foods has been placed into voluntary administration and its 70 plus workers dismissed without pay.

The Right Food Group has won an international award for its Organic Noodle Kitchen product at the world's largest organic trade show.

The Australian Food and Grocery Council has rejected claims by Choice and the George Institute that salt levels in children's snacks and breakfast cereals are too high.

Meat company Teys Australia has snared government grants worth more than $7 million to cut energy costs and reduce carbon emissions at three sites.

Simplot has revamped its Birds Eye potato chip range and added new products amidst a slowing of growth in the market for Australian frozen potatoes.

Poultry producer Bob Ingham will sell the 95-year-old family business Inghams to US-based private equity group TPG Capital for $850 million.

A $6 million grant scheme to encourage businesses to enter the Asian market will be up for grabs from 1 July.

Byron Bay Cookie Company has entered into voluntary administration though the business plans to try to trade its way back into financial health.

NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell has launched the next phase of the 8700kJ initiative, which introduces mandatory kilojoule labelling for ready-to-eat foods in supermarkets.

The Byron Bay Cookie Company has fallen foul of the Australian Tax Office which is seeking to wind up the gourmet biscuit business in documents filed with the Federal Court.

Woolworths has no plans to surrender in its price war with its rival Coles, but denies it will hurt suppliers in the process.

After more than a century, iconic food manufacturer Rosella is shutting down.

Mars Australia has announced it will invest $52 million into the expansion of its Ballarat plant in a bid to better capatalise on export markets.