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There has been a lot going on in the grocery sector in the first months of the year, and here are the five big ones.

The recent upgrade of New Zealand’s free trade agreement with China is critical to our economy, writes Katherine Rich in her latest column in FMCG Business magazine.

Challenge and change defined 2020 like few other years in food & grocery, and they’re set define 2021 too, though (fingers crossed) not in quite the same way.

Wow – what a year that’s coming to an end! Usually at this time we’re saying, ‘let’s put that one behind us, have a decent break and start afresh next year’, and be relatively sure that will happen. But it’s not that simple this year.

The two main retailers are like prize fighters in the ring following each other’s prices and calling manufacturers every time there’s a better price in a flyer or on a shelf.

With recent issues around grocery suppliers’ experiences with Foodstuffs’ NI new buying model, is it time New Zealand looked seriously at a Grocery Code of Conduct, asks Katherine Rich.

New Zealand needs to undertake a fresh children’s National Nutrition Survey if it is to have any chance of getting on top of the obesity problem, says Katherine Rich.

How to keep food on the shelf in Auckland? The short answer is to let essential food workers travel to their factories in and out of Auckland.

A proposed beverage container return scheme for New Zealand will unnecessarily push up prices of everything from beer, to water, to wine, to milk.

An Australian study has cast further doubt on the influence sugar-sweetened beverages have on obesity, with sales declining markedly at a time obesity was continuing to climb.

An Australian study has cast further doubt on the influence sugar-sweetened beverages have on obesity, with sales declining markedly at a time obesity was continuing to climb.

There’s been a lot of speculation about what our post Covid-19 world will look like, and how our daily lives will change and our businesses might have to adapt.

Grocery shopping trends that surfaced in alert levels 4 and 3, such as online, click & collect, and stockpiling seem set to continue for some time, writes NZFGC Chief Executive Katherine Rich in her latest column in Supermarket News.

There have been lots of grocery heroes through the lockdown, but none more so than the checkout workers, the merchandisers, the manufacturers and everyone in logistics.

The NZ Chocolate Awards were a chance to celebrate a bright spot on the food & grocery scene amid the challenges of COVID-19 and the pressure on suppliers to keep our shelves stocked.

Merchandisers have been described by some as "The Silent Sales People" of retail, important team members who help supermarkets and...

We don’t have to walk too far down any supermarket aisle to realise what a huge challenge it would be to remove all plastic or non-recyclable packaging used for groceries.

The food and grocery scene in 2020 will no doubt be dominated by several significant occurrences that came to the fore in the second half of last year.

New Zealand's circular economy will remain just a curve until we can figure out what to do with plastic once it's collected.

Health & safety and sustainability have long been at the forefront FGC member companies’ thinking, and now they’re being ramped up further.