Coles Group has secured two sites in Sydney and Melbourne for high-tech customer fulfilment centres. The long term leases were struck with Charter Hall Group and Ocado Solutions will install and maintain the automation technology.

Industry association AUSVEG says the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA) will help Australian vegetable exporters trade into the growing Indonesian market.

For more than 20 years Mark Barthel has worked on food and agricultural sustainable innovation, largely on quantifying and preventing food loss and waste around the world. Now he has Australia in his sights. Kim Berry writes.

CEO of Australia’s largest privately owned supermarket group, Ritchies Stores, Fred Harrison shares his winning tactics for independent retailers and producers alike. Stuart Ridley writes.

A collaboration between industry, research and government is creating a digital platform to ensure the Riverland wine region in South Australia remains internationally competitive.

Coopers has doubled its malt exports in the past 12 months, sending around 35,000 tonnes of malt a year to food processors and brewers in South Korea, Thailand and Singapore.

New magnetic nanotechnology is helping to remove haze-forming proteins in white wine, as found by the Australian Wine Research Institute and the University of South Australia.

The final step in Asahi Beverages’ acquisition of Carlton & United Breweries from AB InBev has been completed with the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) approving the deal.

Arnott’s has released the recipe for another of its iconic biscuits as part of its Big Recipe Release - the Iced VoVo. More than 100,000 have been baking up a storm with the first two recipes, the Monte Carlo and Scotch Finger.

Australia has an enviable reputation for its high F&B standards. The engineering plastics used in production are important to maintain that status. Cut To Size Plastics managing director Laurie Green explains.

A COVID-19 cluster linked to Cedar Meats Abattoir in Melbourne, now numbers 45, according to the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services.

A new longitudinal study over 22 years has found Australians have shifted their beverage preferences to more low- and no-sugar varieties, with health a major factor in the changing consumption.

At the recent Icons of Gin Awards in London, Australian gin distillers scooped up a slew of awards. Caroline Chiderley, aka The Gin Queen, was recognised as Communicator of the Year. Here she explains why Australian gin, and its makers, are so successful.

Meal kit company Marley Spoon recorded a pandemic-driven global surge in demand from mid-March which saw the company achieve positive operating cash flow globally for the first time.

Foodmach has launched the Code One package, a solution designed to increase certainty of cash flow and equipment reliability for coding and labelling activities on packaging lines.

Co-founder of fair-trade tea Eloments, Julie Hirsch, has been named the 2020 Telstra Victorian Business Woman of the Year, as well as being awarded the Telstra Victorian Business Women’s Emerging Leader Award.