China
Treasury Wine Estates awarded Ben Fu trademark after legal battle
Treasury Wine Estates has won a landmark legal dispute in Beijing over its right to use the Chinese transliteration as a brand name for its flagship Penfolds wine.
Archives for January 19, 2017
Student’s start-up supplement bars help reduce anaemia in Indian women
A fortified iron supplement bar given to women in and around Mumbai reduced anaemia with no reported side effects, according to a study by Duke University researchers and collaborators in India.
Finding the fish: Rethinking nutrition amid modern diets
In a perfect world you would get all the omega-3s you need by eating fish, but less than 10% of Australian adults consume the required level of fish regularly, writes Gerald Quigley.
CVD: Blinkered training pushes young doctors away from supplements
Doctors show low willingness to recommend omega-3s to their patients because the training they received lacked any attention to nutrition and lifestyle.
SPOTLIGHT JAPAN
Asahi ambitious for more acquisitions despite European buying spree
Japan’s biggest beer firm Asahi is weighing up further European acquisitions following last year’s two bumper deals with AB InBev.
Olam flexes its ‘soft power’ through approach to certification
The world of produce certification has shifted considerably in recent years, with a raft of new sustainability marks entering the market and “raising the benchmark of what is happening on the ground”.
News in brief
Fuze Tea’s new Aussie campaign focuses on food moments
Coca-Cola South Pacific’s summer campaign for Fuze Tea will focus on matching the ice tea with food and social occasions in Australia.
Bega's Mondelēz purchase takes Vegemite back into Australian hands
Vegemite will return to Australia after its American parent agreed to sell most of its regional grocery business, including the iconic yeast spread, to Bega Cheese.
Australia’s generations of fast-food fans
Generations Y and Z are still markedly more likely than their seniors to eat at big-name fast-food chains, though the rate they visit them is in slow decline—perhaps due to the rise of hipster hangouts.
Chr. Hansen looks to pack a mightier punch with probiotics in APAC
Chr. Hansen is looking to expand its animal nutrition portfolio in Asia Pacific (APAC) markets.
Government funding and nutritional composition leads to high functional food hopes for Malaysian red seaweed
Tropical red seaweed, G. changii, can become an important functional food ingredient and is a prime crop for large-scale commercial farming, according to new research from Malaysia.