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Kim Berry brings you the highlights, trends, and innovations on show at foodpro 2026. From Day 2: giving Individual Quick Freezing a good shake, high protein, high fibre, no added sugar soft serve ice cream, ingredients for your feelings, and GLP-1 companion drinks. Sponsored by Bürkert Australia. Read more
With foodpro just weeks away and the Hive Awards winners recently crowned, the latest issue of Food & Drink Business is a reminder that an industry grows stronger when it gets in a room together. Our foodpro preview, Hive Awards review, and wrap of ConTech’s 30th conference are testimony to that. There are profiles of foodpro exhibitors, a spirited Rising Star, industry news and so much more.
Welcome to the June edition of PLAY, your monthly wrap-up of the biggest stories shaping Australia's food and beverage manufacturing industry. This month we're looking at global investment, food tech, wine, innovation, and a strategic reset for one of Australia's best-known food brands. Let's get into it.
Our Top 100 2025 edition of Food & Drink Business magazine is more than the annual flagship Top 100 Report. Industry leaders reflect on the year past and the one ahead, we provide our annual news review, M&A wrap-up, and all the executive moves, and a Roman-inspired sports drink, Posca, is our final Rising Star for 2025.
Food & Drink Business and IBISWorld present this year’s Top 100 companies, a ranking of Australia’s largest food and drink companies by revenue. This year reflects a sector positioning itself for immediate term viability and long-term competitiveness.
Kim Berry spoke with Sonalika Sharma, packaging portfolio director at Tetra Pak Oceania, about the company's end-to-end approach to supporting food manufacturers.
Digital printing is opening new opportunities for customisation and shorter production runs, and boosting flexibility, as Lindy Hughson learns from Matt Johnson at Trimatt.
Kim Berry spoke with Naseh Chaker, product manager – Temperature Control at Atlas Copco Rental, about the company's flexible rental cooling solutions for food and beverage manufacturers.
Cryogenic technology is helping food manufacturers improve product quality, throughput and process efficiency across a range of applications, as BOC's Steve McLoughlin tells Kim Berry.
Lindy Hughson spoke with Kirk Batchelor, Qld sales manager at Linco Food Systems, about the latest vision technology on display and how it is helping poultry processors make better use of production data.
Lindy Hughson spoke with Flavia Vaz about the "critical middle" – the processing, packaging, storage and distribution stages where innovation can reduce waste and improve efficiency and food security.
The Australian Council of Recycling has warned that more than 1M tonnes of plastic packaging continues to be sent to landfill or littered each year because the Australian Government has failed to deliver promised national packaging reforms, leaving Australian recycling infrastructure underutilised and some facilities at risk of closure.
EXCLUSIVE: Who won the 2026 PIDA Awards, and what do this year's winners tell us about the future of packaging? PKN reveals the winners and looks beyond the trophies to identify the key trends emerging from this year's award-winning designs.
Australian owned global packaging supplier Detpak has opened a multi-million dollar manufacturing facility in South Carolina, to produce paper-based packaging for quick service restaurant customers in the United States.
