Global health company Amazonia is opening a 1450 square metre research and development site in Queensland to create and test sustainable plant-based products.

Australia’s largest retail drinks and hospitality business Endeavour Group has launched its first sustainability strategy with a commitment to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030.

Coles has signed power purchase agreements to achieve its goal of 100 per cent renewable electricity by the end of FY25. Origin Energy, Acciona Energia, and Engie are the large-scale certificate partners.

Food insecurity is peaking in Australia as Foodbank’s Hunger Report reveals one in six Australian adults have not had enough food and 1.2 million children have gone hungry.

WineDepot will acquire digital B2B alcohol beverage business Kaddy, merging the two into Australia’s largest alcohol-focused cloud-based logistics and marketplace platform. The combined operation will have more than 1900 buyers across the on- and off-premises segments, along with roughly 1000 suppliers of alcoholic beverages accounting for more than 10,000 products.

Woolworths Group has appointed Annette Karantoni as the new chief supply chain officer and managing director of Primary Connect. She will also join the executive team in early 2022.

Sodexo will purchase 100 tonnes of surplus food every year for the next three years from social enterprise Yume. The company has purchased more than 190 tonnes of food from Yume since 2018.

When milk tea brand 9Cha launched in 2019, its founders Sean Issell and Jay Shao had their eyes firmly set on the Asian market. COVID-19 forced a rethink and revised domestic campaign.

Each month, in Food & Drink Business magazine, we ask an industry leader five questions about their working life. In August-September we talked to the new General Mills ANZ MD Matt Salter.

In what New South Wales Department of Primary Industries is calling a world-first, it has launched an AMS Integrated Management Model tool to assist farmers when using automatic milking systems.

The Australian Manufacturing Growth Centre (AMGC) has awarded 10 companies $6 million in grants through the federal government’s Commercialisation Fund.

Ingredient manufacturers have an important role to play when it comes to sustainability. Lisa Flower from Chr. Hansen looks at how the biosciences company is playing its part.

In food and beverage processing, quality is primarily about food safety, which is non-negotiable. Asset performance is key for food and beverage processors to reliably produce safe food at the lowest cost.

Slater and Gordon has filed a class action against The a2 Milk Company in the Victorian Supreme Court, alleging it breached the Corporations Act and continuous disclosure rules.

With quality and traceability more important than ever, Rob Cheesman from professional services firm Kettering explains how it worked with Bundaberg Brewed Drinks to reach the global gold standard.