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Creating a food safety culture part 2: Top tips from retail giant Walmart

04-Apr-2018 By Gary Scattergood

‘Don’t talk about creating a food safety culture, do it’: That’s the advice from one of the senior leaders overseeing food safety at Walmart’s 12,000 stores, in 28 countries, with 2.3 million employees.

APAC’s burgeoning middle class providing huge opportunities for food firms: Kerry APAC boss

28-Mar-2018 By Lester Wan

John Savage, President and CEO of Kerry APMEA, said consumer tastes in the region are rapidly changing due to the growing middle-class and increased travel, which is opening South East Asian markets up to a raft of new international flavours and opportunities...

Sri Lanka seeks to boost food industry by linking SMEs to global markets

22-Mar-2018 By Lester Wan

Sri Lankan Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen said the government is considering linking the country’s food processing SMEs to global export markets.

Revealed: The emerging food products set to propel NZ exports beyond lamb and dairy

22-Mar-2018 By Lester Wan

New Zealand’s food exports have long been dominated by lamb and dairy, but new reports highlight the rapidly-emerging categories displaying double-digit growth rates.

Tokyo offers incentives to halal food operators before the Olympics

21-Mar-2018 By Richard Whitehead

As Tokyo gears up to host the 2020 Olympics, one of the city’s municipalities is targeting Muslim visitors by encouraging its food businesses to gain halal certification.

Cold Storage, Giant and Hero stores axed in Southeast Asia on back of poor results

20-Mar-2018 By Lester Wan

Pan-Asian retailer Dairy Farm International – the owner of stores such as Cold Storage, Giant and 7-Eleven – has closed a series of outlets in Southeast Asia "after a disappointing year" for its food businesses.

Impact investors establish new food firm to produce plant-based protein and clean-meat goods for China

19-Mar-2018 By Lester Wan

A new food firm – Dao Foods International – has been set up to launch plant-based protein and clean meat alternatives to the China market, on the back of the country’s soaring demand for meat products.

Gulfood 2018

Superfood-based burgers and nuggets launched by UAE firm that grows kale in the desert

14-Mar-2018 By Gary Scattergood

UAE manufacturer Global Food Industries (GFI) has launched a new range of ‘healthy’ burgers and nuggets featuring superfoods quinoa and kale in at attempt to help tackle the region’s rising rates of obesity and diabetes.

FoodEx Japan 2018

Watch: Can exports to Japan help offset some of Britain's food and drink Brexit blues?

13-Mar-2018 By Gary Scattergood

Japan might be a notoriously difficult market to enter – especially for food and drink SMEs – but the UK is optimistic it can provide significant opportunities to increase exports.

Blockchain technology to extend GS1 standards to food testing labs “for first time”

12-Mar-2018 By Lester Wan

Two food testing labs from Vietnam and Australia are joining forces with a blockchain provider to extend globally-recognised GS1 industry standards into labs, in a bid to boost supply chain transparency and trust.

New round of Aussie supermarket wars claims scalp of local online independent

08-Mar-2018 By RJ Whitehead

The landscape is looking increasingly grim for home-grown retailers following the closure this week of Aussie Farmers Direct.

FoodEx Japan 2018

Six products and trends Japanese buyers are looking for from new food imports

06-Mar-2018 By Staff Reporter

With the 43rd FoodEx Japan show underway in Tokyo this week, we uncover what some of the nation’s product buyers are on the lookout for when it comes to selecting new imports.

Thailand's CP Foods' sales grow in 2017 on back of overseas business

05-Mar-2018 By Lester Wan

Thailand’s CP Foods' 2017 sales hit THB 501.507bn (US$15bn), up 8% year-on-year thanks to its growing overseas business operations.

Load-up on high-quality protein at breakfast to aid healthy weight loss: CSIRO report

14-Feb-2018 By Lester Wan

Eating more protein at breakfast and at each meal could help in achieving healthy weight loss, according to a new report released in Australia.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

JUST CEO Josh Tetrick reveals billion-dollar start-up will open first Asia manufacturing site

12-Feb-2018 By Gary Scattergood

Billion-dollar US start-up JUST will open its first manufacturing site in Asia this year, with CEO Josh Tetrick telling us in an exclusive interview that Asia holds huge promise for the egg-free and 'clean meat' firm.

New products, transparent labelling and value: How food firms can achieve halal sales success as demand soars in Asia

07-Feb-2018 By Lester Wan

As home to four of the five fastest-growing Muslim-majority countries and boasting increasing levels of disposable incomes, Asia is offering halal food firms vast growth potential — but only if they embrace new product development, labelling transparency...

CP Foods strives for New Zealand growth as Australian business booms

06-Feb-2018 By Gary Scattergood

Thailand’s CP Foods has achieved double-digit growth in Australia since entering the country in 2012, and is now targeting sales success in New Zealand as it seeks greater “expansion and diversification” down under.

Taiwan planning to review ban on Japan food imports from post-disaster regions

05-Feb-2018 By Lester Wan

Taiwan could be about to review its ban on food imports from five Japanese prefectures, which were imposed following the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Grocery wars: India’s e-commerce battle hots up with Alibaba, Amazon and Walmart on manoeuvres

05-Feb-2018 By Lester Wan

India’s e-commerce and online grocery sector has been buzzing with speculation and new investment in the past week with Alibaba, Amazon and Walmart all seemingly jostling for position.

Asia's Food Leaders video series

Watch: ADM exec on Asia innovation, regional KPIs and healthy ageing potential

05-Feb-2018 By Gary Scattergood

Hitting ‘local preferences, local profiles and local tastes’ are three of the key priorities for ADM in Asia after the company opened its new flavour and ingredient innovation centre in Singapore.

Thailand's CP Group launches India operations with an eye on US deals

31-Jan-2018 By Lester Wan

Thailand food conglomerates Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group is to open wholesale cash-and-carry stores in India as well as broker deals in the US.

Kiwi plant-based protein company targets global expansion for Chicken Free Chicken

31-Jan-2018 By Lester Wan

Auckland-based meat substitute producer Sunfed Meats, which has consistently sold out its Chicken Free Chicken in New Zealand, is in the midst of a series A capital raise to significantly expand production to meet growing local and overseas demand, and...

Global food firms increasingly enticed by Middle East markets – more bumper trade deals expected at Gulfood 2018

31-Jan-2018 By Gary Scattergood

This year’s Gulfood show takes place against the backdrop of rising regional investment in food production, with international manufacturers increasingly seeing the Middle East as a lucrative market for their goods.

Rakuten and Walmart combine powers for new Japan grocery delivery service

30-Jan-2018 By Lester Wan

Japan e-commerce giant Rakuten and retailer Seiyu GK, a Walmart subsidiary, have agreed on a joint venture to launch a new online grocery delivery service — Rakuten Seiyu Netsuper.

Why yet another Asian online giant — Tencent — is investing in China's brick-and-mortar food retail

25-Jan-2018 By Lester Wan

The wave of online giants ploughing cash into traditional bricks-and-mortar food retail business shows no sign of slowing, with hypermarket chain Carrefour announcing it is in collaborative talks with China technology and entertainment giant Tencent.

ADM targets Southeast Asia flavour and ingredient growth after opening new Singapore innovation centre

25-Jan-2018 By Gary Scattergood

ADM is the latest global food giant to plough investment into Singapore with the opening of a new innovation centre to meet rising consumer and customer demand across Southeast Asia.

Philippines gives green light to South Korean processed meat imports

24-Jan-2018 By Gary Scattergood

South Korean processed meat firms will soon be able to export products to the Philippines after the two nations agreed standards protocols.

Space snacks: Japan seeks lift-off for more accredited foods for astronauts

16-Jan-2018 By Lester Wan

Astronauts currently have to eat the same meal roughly every 16 days — but this is something Japan is looking to remedy with the help of food manufacturers.

China e-commerce giant JD.com follows Alibaba's lead into bricks-and-mortar food retail

08-Jan-2018 By Lester Wan

China e-commerce retailer JD.com is to launch new bricks-and-mortar 7Fresh grocery stores in the country, reigniting competition with rivals such as Alibaba in the offline space.

China’s DRex Food Group invests $400m in Belarus dairy infrastructure in latest spending spree

03-Jan-2018 By Lester Wan

China’s DRex Food Group Co. Ltd. has signed an agreement to invest US$400m in dairy farms and a milk processing plant in the Vitebsk region of Belarus, near the border with Russia.

APAC's four key private label trends into the 2020's: Premium, sustainable, digital and healthy

02-Jan-2018 By RJ Whitehead

Growing digitisation, premium packaging formats and a rising focus on health and wellness are among the key trends in private label that Asia-Pacific will face into the next decade.

‘Paddock to plate’: Beef blockchain technology to fight food fraud

13-Dec-2017 By Gary Scattergood

A research project designed to track beef from the paddock to the plate and protect Australia’s reputation for quality production has been launched in Queensland.

Food policy picks: Our top 5 regulation stories from 2017

11-Dec-2017 By Gary Scattergood

Edible insects, halal rules, sugar taxes and the ever-controversial issue of GM foods shared the spoils in our top five most-read policy stories of 2017.

Australians want better labels on 'unhealthy' foods, but not sin taxes

07-Dec-2017 By Gary Scattergood

Almost 80% of Australians want clearer labels on unhealthy foods, but far fewer support taxation as a tool to deter consumption.

Robot awards: Ishida’s packaging and inspection equipment scoops two excellence gongs

29-Nov-2017 By RJ Whitehead

Robotic technology that can grade meat products of varying weights and pack them swiftly into fixed-weight trays won a notable award at Gulfood Manufacturing this year.

Arjuna sets sights on Europe and US for shelf-life extender growth

16-Nov-2017 By Gary Scattergood

Indian supplier Arjuna says it is "aggressively expanding" its base in the US and Europe for its clean-label shelf-life extending ingredients.

Good game: Blockchain technology to track meat supply in Japan

07-Nov-2017 By Lester Wan

State-of the-art blockchain technology is to be used by the Japanese government to increase traceability, food safety and distribution for wild game.

Ban over: China lifts meat export restrictions on Australian processors

02-Nov-2017 By Lester Wan

China has lifted the suspension of red meat imports from six Australian meat firms.

UN launches campaign to avert “food security disaster” in former ISIL-held Mosul

01-Nov-2017 By Lester Wan

The United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched an emergency campaign to safeguard livestock and food security across the Mosul area in Iraq, recently retaken from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Lab-made ‘foie gras’: Japan firm claims product could be commercially viable by 2021

01-Nov-2017 By Lester Wan

Lab-grown ‘foie gras’ could hit the shelves within four years, according to the professor behind a Japanese firm working on a range of cultured meats.

Falling Chinese pork imports fuel global oversupply

31-Oct-2017 By Aidan Fortune

A drop in Chinese imports is expected to cause a global oversupply in pork meat.

China direct

Smithfield Foods to open marketplace on JD.com

30-Oct-2017 By RJ Whitehead

China-owned pork giant Smithfield Foods will sell its products on China’s second-biggest e-commerce portal in a three-way deal with Henan Shuanghui Investment and Development.

Indonesia streamlines halal certification through new government agency

26-Oct-2017 By RJ Whitehead

A new body formed under the religious affairs ministry has taken over issuing halal certification, almost 30 years after Indonesia’s top clerical body was given responsibility for the practice.

His week Down Under

Processor takes its beef with sole customer to Queensland Supreme Court

26-Oct-2017 By RJ Whitehead

The 40-year relationship between one of Australia’s biggest beef suppliers and its exclusive domestic customer is on the rocks following an export dispute that has landed before the courts.

New Zealand expansion for meat firm Hilton Food Group to serve Countdown supermarkets

25-Oct-2017 By Lester Wan

Hilton Food Group PLC, a UK-based meat processing and packing firm, is set to expand into New Zealand with an investment worth NZ$54 million.

Japan wagyu makers eye Olympics as global marketing opportunity

16-Oct-2017 By Kathryn Wortley

Work is underway to promote Japan’s quality wagyu beef to athletes and tourists visiting Tokyo for the 2020 summer Olympic Games to boost exports in the long term.

A’Saffa gets financing to double poultry capacity in Oman’s south

04-Oct-2017 By RJ Whitehead

Oman’s biggest poultry processor has secured long-term financing for a OMR45m (US$117m) project to expand in the south of the country.

Indian feed player Godrej Agrovet going down IPO route

26-Sep-2017 By Jane Byrne

Indian feed producer, Godrej Agrovet, has set a price range of 450-460 rupees a share for its initial public offering (IPO) to raise up to 11.6 billion rupees (US$177.6m), according to a public notice published today.

Cargill buys unused feedmill in central Thailand

18-Sep-2017 By RJ Whitehead

An unused feed mill in Thailand’s Prachinburi province has been acquired by Cargill to produce poultry and swine feed.

China direct

‘Poultry for beef’ deal completes after China given US ‘equivalence’

18-Sep-2017 By RJ Whitehead

China’s poultry inspection protocols have been judged “equivalent” to those used by the US Department of Agriculture, paving the way for the world’s second biggest producer to gain access to the world’s largest poultry market.