Above: Weet-Bix with its new front of pack Health Star labelling. Weet-Bix and UP&GO are the first Sanitarium products to arrive on shelves with front of pack Health Star labelling. UP&GO scores four and a half stars and Weet-Bix scores five under the Health Star Rating system. The Health Star Rating system, which was endorsed […]
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Kimberly-Clark Australia won the Environment Minister’s Award for a Cleaner Environment at the Banksia Awards, held in Sydney this week. The award recognises Kimberly-Clark’s Millicent Mill(see C&I WEEK 97) for its contribution towards achieving the objective of a cleaner, healthier, environment and a more resilient sustainable Australia. Products manufactured at Millicent include Kleenex tissues, Cottonelle and
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A seven month stand-off over wages could come to an end next week when workers at Simplot’s Ulverstone and Devonport sites in Tasmania vote on wages after reaching an in-principle agreement in the Fair Work Commission. It is understood the company’s proposal is “a bit different to what they first put forward but the most
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The growth of store brands or private label products in supermarkets is impacting on suppliers as Coles and Woolworths push into new markets, while Nielsen said that private labels are no longer seen as simply low-cost alternatives to name brands but are increasingly high-quality products fulfilling consumer needs across a variety of price points. A Fairfax
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Australia’s leading producer of ham, bacon and smallgoods, PrimoGroup, looks set to become the third major food and beverage company to fall into overseas hands this year after signing a conditional agreement (which remains subject to customary regulatory approvals). If approved, the move would see Australia’s largest fresh meats processor, JBS Australia Pty Limited (JBS
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Australia’s largest mobile virtual network operator, amaysim, was among the winners at the awards ceremony for the 2014 ‘Deloitte Technology Fast 50’ and the ‘Leadership Awards’ list. amaysim received double accolades, coming in at number three in the ‘Leadership Awards’ and 13th in the ‘Deloitte Technology Fast 50’ at the ceremony held at the ASX
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Unilever Australia & New Zealand has announced that, by the end of 2015, all palm oil purchased by Unilever ANZ for locally produced food products will come from RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) segregated sources. Unilever advised C&I WEEK that this will “cover the palm oil we purchase for food products manufactured locally in
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Nestlé Australia has unveiled the final stage of a substantial three year project to expand the production capabilities of its factory at Smithtown on the NSW mid north coast that includes new facilities to house state-of-the-art technology, the first of its kind in Australia. Over the last three years, around $53 million has been
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Despite some ups and downs in recent years, ice cream remains a staple on many Australian grocery lists, with 73% of Aussie grocery consumers purchasing a tub or carton of ice cream at least once in the last 12 months, Roy Morgan Research said. While the proportion of grocery buyers who purchase ice cream tubs/cartons
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The New York Daily News has reported that PepsiCo have been testing a “Dorito-inspired” flavour at colleges and universities. A PepsiCo representative told the Daily News, “We are always testing out new flavors of Mountain Dew, and giving our fans a voice in helping decide on the next new product has always been important to
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Further to last week’s report in C&I WEEK, we have just received the results of the Melbourne Kleenex Cottonelle’s experiential stand, which was erected in Melbourne’s Federation Square and offered passers-by the opportunity to test Kleenex Cottonelle Flushable Cleansing Cloths for themselves and experience an elevated standard of clean. • Across two days of activity in
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In an ASX Release titled ‘Coca-Cola Amatil to increase manufacturing efficiency’, Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) this week announced it will “relocate production from a small facility in Melbourne to its larger capital city facilities as part of its strategy to increase manufacturing efficiencies and productivity across the business. “The Bayswater facility will be closed and 57
Kimberly-Clark Australia, the single largest employer in South Australia’s South East, is investing a further $20 million in its Millicent Mill to upgrade equipment and increase production of its Kleenex products. This follows a $33 million investment in a new energy-saving cogeneration plant, which has taken the Millicent Mill off the electricity grid and greatly
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