We ask industry leaders five questions about their working life. This month we talk to Robert Iervasi from Asahi Beverages.

HRS Heat Exchangers met a challenging brief to supply a customer in Australia with a compact yet efficient heat exchanger to process viscous dairy products.

Woolworths Group’s FY21 group net profit cracked $2 billion, rising 77.8 per cent to $2.07 billion, with the caveat the figure was before adjusting for the demerger of Endeavour Group.

The APPMA and RMIT have launched the results of an in-depth study examining the opportunities and barriers for the Australian packaging and processing machinery sector to tackle food waste.

CEO Michael Perich says the two appointments complete the “comprehensive renewal" of the leadership team.

When you have delivered more than 60 million ready meals in nine years, variety really does become the spice of maintaining and growing your customer base.

It took two hungry brothers looking for ready-meal options post gym work-out to create My Muscle Chef. Last year the brand made $150 million in sales.

New Zealand private equity firm South Island Office has bought the ANZ operations of Sara Lee from McCain Foods. McCain announced in October 2020 it was looking to sell the business.

Woolworths and Uber Eats have joined forces to provide same hour grocery delivery from a select group of Metro stores. Customers will be offered a curated range of around 1200 products.

Around 80 per cent of Australians are opting for at least one meat-free day a week, with only 1 in 5 eating meat every day, research by consumer intelligence platform Toluna says.

Perfection Fresh has launched a consumer traceability and provenance discovery tool for raspberries from its farms in Caboolture, Queensland.

A focus on ecommerce and acquisitions has paid dividends for Maggie Beer Holdings (MBH), with the company recording a FY21 net profit after tax of $1.9 million compared to a lost of $14.8 million in FY20.

“What can I ask?”, “What can I do?”, “What can I change?” are the three key questions we can all ask to speed up greater diversity in the workplace, keynote speaker Louise Weine from the National Association of Women in Operations said at this week's Women in Packaging event.

Treasury Wine Estates CEO Tim Ford says FY21 saw significant changes and achievement for the business, despite major external disruptions.

Persistence prevails when all else fails, and being the change you want to see, were key take outs of this year’s Women in Packaging (WIP) Next Gen Leadership panel.

Orora says it is well positioned to pursue new growth opportunities. In Australasia, growth in cans and closures offset a subdued glass business as the impact of Chinese tariffs on wine hit.