At the recent International Wine & Spirit Competition, Australian distillers and wine makers did the country proud. One of the stars of the show was cocktail innovator, Curatif, winning RTD Producer of the Year for the second year in a row.

Australian Food tech company, Magic Valley, is expanding into a state-of-the-art pilot facility at Co-Labs in Melbourne. Magic Valley gambolled onto the cultivated meat radar when it cultivated lamb in September 2022.

A strategic partnership has been forged by Food & Fibre Gippsland and The Trade Council of Denmark to support Gippsland’s Regional Circular Economy Plan.

Mondelēz International has opened a new $13 million state-of-the-art automated packaging line at its Gourmet Food biscuit manufacturing facility in Dandenong, Victoria. The fitout increases production of Olina’s Bakehouse Artisan crackers range by 35 per cent.

Philter Brewing has closed the fourth largest equity crowdfunding raise of 2023, achieving the biggest raise by a New South Wales business. The brewer used the raise as a call-to-arms for consumers to support Australia’s independent brewing industry.

Australian Vintage has had 100 per cent of its owned and operated vineyards certified by Sustainable Winegrowing Australia. Auditors from the National Association for Sustainable Agriculture Australia and Sci-Qual International found no corrective actions were required for Australian Vintage’s winegrowing practices.

Refresh:Food, a digital marketplace designed to connect growers with excess fresh produce to potential buyers has launched with a B2B marketplace app accessible via smartphone.

It’s set to be a challenging summer ahead for food and drink businesses, with many searching for a sustainable solution to combat rising electricity costs. So, what can your business do to secure a competitive energy edge as temperatures rise? Jacob Mahoney from Flow Power shows how.

The launch of wine and spirits company, 7000 Islands, will bring liqueurs and spirits from the Philippines to the local alcohol scene, while developing an export channel for small batch Australian wines to a growing Filipino market.

Phantm, a plastic reduction platform that wants to address plastic waste and promote the adoption of natural materials, has successfully secured $2 million in a seed round led by Blacknova VC and CoVentures VC.

Unilever will grant a free non-exclusive license to the ice cream industry for 12 reformulation patents, following two successful pilots to warm up its last mile ice cream freezer cabinets.

More than seven million kilograms of surplus food have been saved from landfill and redistributed using a sales and donation tech platform created by purpose led tech start-up Yume.

If Australian advanced manufacturing is to compete on a global scale, there needs to be a quantum increase in funding and government contracts, a report by national professional services firm RSM Australia says. The $15bn NRF is significant, but not enough to achieve this, the report said.

Food and Drink Business is very excited to announce it will be hosting its own awards program in 2024. The Hive Awards have been created to recognise innovation and excellence in Australia’s food and beverage manufacturing sector.

Cargill has opened the Cargill Cocoa Development Center, the first of its kind in the APAC region. Situated in Indonesia, one of the world’s largest cocoa producing countries, the center will address fast-changing Asian consumer preferences.

Young Henrys mission to ‘drink beer, save the world’ is pushing forward with further advancements to The Algae Project, installing Chart Industries’ Earthly Lab’s CiCi carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technology to its brewery, producing both gas for operations and food for its algae bioreactors.