With global taste and food ingredient company Kerry celebrating its 50th year, Kim Berry caught up with John Cahalane, the CEO and president of Kerry Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa.

Wide Open Agriculture (WOA) officially opened its pilot plant-based protein facility in Western Australia, which will produce a breakthrough, eco-friendly protein called Buntine Protein.

An alliance of food industry associations across the supply chain has formed in response to ongoing supply disruptions, rising inflation, and equity between large retailers and independents.

When Brigid Woolnough went on maternity leave, her love of chocolate spurred the birth of a whole new career as a chocolatier. Kim Berry spoke to Woolnough about her company Kokopod.

Jennifer Evans is the new chair of the Asia Pacific Accreditation Cooperation (APAC), the largest regional body to represent and manage a global mutual recognition arrangement (MRA).

Indigenous chocolate company, Chocolate On Purpose, has won Indigenous Business of the Year at the inaugural Australian Rural Business Awards, launched by Spend With Us.

A new Australian-first plan to tackle food waste across the food cold chain sector has been released by leading national food waste agency Stop Food Waste Australia (SFWA).

Dan Murphy’s chief strategy officer Agnieszka (Agi) Pfeiffer-Smith will move into the managing director role, replacing Alex Freudmann who resigned in May.

Australia’s response to its food waste crisis is picking up pace with sector action plans coming into force. Stop Food Waste Australia chief operating officer Mark Barthel provides an update on progress.

Welcome to our June issue, with special features on Food Waste (page 20), Bakery Business (page 30), Supply Chain & Logistics (page 36), and Testing & Measuring (page 40).

Australia’s largest salmon farmer Tassal Group rejected a takeover bid from Canadian aquaculture business Cooke Inc, saying the offer did not reflect the full value of the company.

AACo CEO and managing director Hugh Killen has resigned, effective immediately. AACo chair Donald McGauchie said the company’s COO Dave Harris would act as interim CEO.

With the consumption of NoLo drinks projected to increase 31 per cent by 2024, Canberra-based independent craft brewery, Capital Brewing Co, is introducing its first full flavoured, non-alcoholic beer, Alc-Less.

Melbourne-based Starward Whisky has been named the Most Awarded Distillery of the Year at the 2022 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, the first Australian distillery to do so.

The Victorian government says over the next five years, it will split $100 million between Victorian universities to establish pre-seed investment funds to drive the commercialisation of research.

Affinity Labs is the new name for the Australian Wine Research Institute’s (AWRI) commercial arm, broadening its reach and opening it up to work with other industries.