The Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre (AEGIC) is looking for expressions of interest from food brands, manufacturers or investors to work with it on plant-based projects.

As one of Australia’s most iconic brands, Arnott’s, embarks on building a whole new business unit, Kim Berry catches up with the team to find out how a heritage brand maintains currency and drives growth.

Beef, bread, cheese, and salad are the most thrown out foods in Australian kitchens, a comprehensive study by the Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre (FFW CRC) has found. We also throw out around $965 worth of food per person per year.

It is with great excitement we introduce the newest member to the Food & Drink Business team, Varun Bodhi.

Brownes Foods Operations (Brownes Dairy) has paid a $22,000 penalty after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) issued it with two infringement notices.

The New Zealand Overseas Investment Office has approved a2 Milk Company’s proposed acquisition of 75 per cent of dairy nutrition company Mataura Valley Milk.

Indigenous owned, managed and controlled coffee enterprise Dhuwa (pron: Dee:Wah) has launched its first three blends, now available in selected Woolworths stores.

Coles will integrate health products, traditionally stocked in the health food aisle, into their respective categories across the store. The breakfast aisle has been first to undergo transformation.

The brewing industry is in the grip of its own #metoo moment, with a recent outpouring in the US of sexual discrimination and harassment stories. Joshua Gliddon talks to Australian women brewers and distillers about their experience.

Start-up climate change program WorkForClimate launched this week to give professionals and corporations resources to tackle the climate crisis in their day-to-day work lives.

The second round of Manufacturing Modernisation Fund (MMF) grants has awarded more than $25.3 million to 37 food and beverage manufacturers, including Modus Operandi's NORT beer and five other breweries. The fund allocated $55 million in total to 86 companies across Australia.

Forbidden Foods has signed an exclusive deal with Winhealth Pharma to distribute its infant brand FUNCH on ecommerce platform Kaola and largest online retailer JD.com.

Guidelines for the federal government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative’s Collaboration Stream have been released, with $20-$200 million available for large-scale projects.

Goodman Fielder has set itself the goal of halving its food waste by 2030. Kim Berry talks to head of sustainability Mick Anderson about what the company is doing to achieve that.

Another packed issue for you all. We take a look inside Arnott’s new Good Food Partner’s factory, profile some of Australia’s best brewers, shine a light on a start-up that is upcycling coffee fruit and so much more. We also see COVID-19’s hand and raise it a 30+ page foodpro preview that we can now all call the Food & Drink Business Foodpro Lockdown Special.

The release of Coles Group’s full Sustainability Strategy brings together its Together to Zero and Better Together initiatives and aligns to nine of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).