One of Australia’s largest and longest-running wine shows, the Sydney Royal Wine Show awards, took place last week – assessing over 1700 wines with a panel of expert judges.

The Source Kitchen, led by Tawnya Bahr and Lucy Allon from Straight To The Source, have introduced the key theme for this year's Fine Food Australia event: “Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle, and Rescue”.

The a2 Milk Company has flagged China’s poor economic conditions as a major dampener on the company’sfuture performance. Despite FY24 being a good year, it told the market its pace of revenue growth would be halved, and that its timeline to reach NZ$2 billion was now 2027. The market didn’t hide its feelings, with the share price dropping 17 per cent.  

Submissions on proposed tax changes that would incentivise companies to donate excess food rather than dump it, must be in by close of business TODAY, Tuesday, 20 August. The Incentivising Food Donations to Charitable Organisations Bill 2024 was tabled in the senate by West Australian senator Dean Smith earlier this month.

PepsiCo Australia has donated 70 pallets of oats to hunger relief charity, Foodbank, through food conglomerate Quaker Oats, which PepsiCo acquired in 2001.

Dairy co-op Fonterra is partnering with alternative protein startup, Superbrewed Food, to develop functional biomass protein from Fonterra’s lactose – creating more value from milk.

I’ve always thought that one thing a global food company with 15 billion-dollar brands (as well as all the other clearly poor performing brands) needs is another couple of billion-dollar brands. While Mars scratched that itch by acquiring Kellanova for US$36 billion last week, what else was at play?

The arbitration between The a2 Milk Company and Synlait Milk has been adjourned following the conditional resolution of some of the disputes between the two.

General Mills has appointed Karen Jenkins as its new managing director for Australia and New Zealand. She was sales director ANZ for the last three years and replaces Matt Salter, who is now VP of marketing for General Mills International. 

Melbourne based Starward Distillery has received the Most Awarded International Distillery of the Year title at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, the second time it has received the award.

Food industry trade show, Fine Food Australia, is partnering with the Victorian government for its 2024 event, taking place at the Melbourne Conference and Exhibition Centre from 2-5 September.

RaboBank has released a sustainability centric report detailing how cutting carbon emissions along the supply chains of the food and beverage industry will also reduce costs.

Coles has donated $1.4 million boost to national food rescue charity, SecondBite, to help feed Australians in need, from the 2024 round of its Winter Appeal.

Strengthening the resilience of Australian transport infrastructure and high freight costs are top supply chain priorities for food manufacturers, as revealed in a survey at the Australian Food and Grocery Council’s (AFGC) Supply Chain Summit.

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is preparing to put nutrition and alcohol labelling reformation plans into action, as Australian and New Zealand food ministers recently agreed to scoping work by the organisation.

Treasury Wines Australia reported a 13 per cent increase in sales revenue to $2.7 billion, while its net profit after tax took a heavy 61 per cent drop to $99 million due to the sizeable impairment of its Commercial portfolio it announced earlier this month,