May 20, 2019 | Latest News
Suppliers to the Australian supermarket duopoly of Coles and Woolworths are being squeezed as the companies fight for market share, according to a brand building specialist. Troy McKinna says to steal market share from each other and to combat ALDI’s low prices, Coles...
May 10, 2019 | Submissions
Rebaudioside MD as a steviol glycoside from Saccharomyces cerevisiae – to Food Standards Australia New Zealand Document
May 9, 2019 | Katherine Rich Comments
Getting food labelling right is critical to any food business. Consumers rely on it and sometimes it’s a matter of life and death. Food safety in New Zealand is assumed, but there are many countries where consumers don’t have the same faith, and for good reason....
May 2, 2019 | Latest News
Woolworths has increased its lead as Australia’s top grocery retailer, taking its share of the total grocery market to 34% last year, up 1.4 percentage points on a year earlier, according to market research company Roy Morgan’s Supermarket & Fresh Food Currency...
Apr 29, 2019 | Katherine Rich Comments
Companies of all shapes and sizes will be waiting with interest on the outcome of a Government consultation on proposals to strengthen the law protecting consumers and business from anti-competitive behaviour. The proposals concern Section 36 of the Commerce Act,...
Apr 24, 2019 | Katherine Rich Comments
In a small country with a population the size of many cities around the world, New Zealand naturally has a small base of quality academic work suitable for publication. Not surprisingly, when it comes to the peer-review process in New Zealand, quite often...
Apr 11, 2019 | Health & Safety
You can’t manage a risk unless you first identify it. Mondelez International uses Risk Assessment as a standard HSE tool. But what is Risk Assessment and how does it benefit the business? Risk Assessment is a focused examination of what, in the workplace, could cause...
Apr 9, 2019 | Latest News
Heinz Wattie’s Managing Director Mike Pretty is the new Chair of the NZ Food and Grocery Council. He replaces Tim Deane, former Managing Director of Goodman Fielder NZ, who has moved to a position outside the industry, as executive general manager business banking at...
Apr 3, 2019 | Katherine Rich Comments
Now that it’s happened, I doubt too many people disagree with the ban on plastic shopping bags. I think many understand that overuse of plastic is becoming a problem right through the environment, and particularly for marine life and the ramifications down that food...
Mar 25, 2019 | Submissions
Health Star Rating System Five-Year Review draft report, to Food Regulation Standing Committee, Canberra Submission document
Mar 19, 2019 | Katherine Rich Comments
I was hoping 2019 would be a year of constructive reports on issues around obesity and wellness so we could make further headway on them. But it was only mid-January when British medical journal The Lancet published a report calling for people to eat a mouthful of...
