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Our Top 100 2025 edition of Food & Drink Business magazine is more than the annual flagship Top 100 Report.

Foodmach Instant Palletiser lifts payloads up to 28kg. Source: Foodmach
Foodmach Instant Palletiser lifts payloads up to 28kg. Source: Foodmach

Foodmach has sponsored the Top 100 for several years and this year, strategy and sales director, Phil Biggs, looks at how companies can scale with confidence. End of line is where the gains from upstream value-add are banked, and it is also where complexity tends to creep in. Biggs explains how to build an end-of-line solution that scales with your speed. 

I provide a full and thorough debrief of Anuga 2025, well, as full and thorough as it can be without me revealing my questionable travel, navigation, and life skills. 

Source: Posca Hydrate
Source: Posca Hydrate

I'm sure there are some readers among you who remember Merrick Watts from his days behind the microphone as one part of Merrick & Rosso well, now he is part of our Rising Star. Keira Joyce spoke with him and co-founder Ed Stening about their sports drink, Posca, drawing on Roman times as well as modern technology. 

We also have a wrap-up of all our 2025 Rising Stars.

AFGC CEO, Colm Maguire. (Image supplied)
AFGC CEO, Colm Maguire. (Image supplied)

Two of the country's leading industry voices give us their take on 2025 and what they see in the year ahead and beyond. Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology CEO, Fiona Fleming, and Australian Food & Grocery Council CEO, Colm Maguire.

And we have our annual review of the top news stories, mergers & acquisitions, and all the movers and shakers

Packaging News

As 2025 draws to a close, it is clear the packaging sector has undergone one of its most consequential years in over a decade. Consolidation at the top, restructuring in the middle, and bold innovation at the edges have reshaped the industry’s horizons. At the same time, regulators, brand owners and recyclers have inched closer to a new circular operating model, even as policy clarity remains elusive.

Pact has reported a decline in revenue and earnings for the first five months of FY26, citing subdued market demand, as chair Raphael Geminder pursues settlement of the long-running TIC earn-out dispute.

PKN brings you the top 20 clicks on our website this year, a healthy mix of surprise and no-surprise. Pro-Pac Packaging led the list, Women in Packaging came in at #4, and Zipform's paper bottle at #15.