Our Top 100 2025 edition of Food & Drink Business magazine is more than the annual flagship Top 100 Report.
Foodmach has sponsored the Top 100 for several years and this year, strategy and sales director, Phil Biggs, looks at how companies can scale with confidence. End of line is where the gains from upstream value-add are banked, and it is also where complexity tends to creep in. Biggs explains how to build an end-of-line solution that scales with your speed.
I provide a full and thorough debrief of Anuga 2025, well, as full and thorough as it can be without me revealing my questionable travel, navigation, and life skills.
I'm sure there are some readers among you who remember Merrick Watts from his days behind the microphone as one part of Merrick & Rosso – well, now he is part of our Rising Star. Keira Joyce spoke with him and co-founder Ed Stening about their sports drink, Posca, drawing on Roman times as well as modern technology.
We also have a wrap-up of all our 2025 Rising Stars.
Two of the country's leading industry voices give us their take on 2025 and what they see in the year ahead – and beyond. Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology CEO, Fiona Fleming, and Australian Food & Grocery Council CEO, Colm Maguire.
And we have our annual review of the top news stories, mergers & acquisitions, and all the movers and shakers.
