Good News from the Brisbane Markets
Queensland Minister for Agriculture, Mark Furner (left), joined Australian Melon Association Chairman Mark Daunt for a rockmelon launch on the Brisbane Produce Market trading floor. The North Queensland melon season was launched from the Brisbane Produce Market trading floor on Monday morning, with the aim of helping the rockmelon industry bounce back to life. State […]
Invitation to Offer for Grocery, Dairy and Kitchen Consumables
Queensland Health(QH) acting through Health Support Queensland’s Strategic Procurement and Supply will release an Invitation to Offer for Grocery, Dairy and Kitchen Consumables on or about 1 May 2018. The projected closure date is 5 June 2018. This new supply arrangement will act as a QH state-wide Standing Offer Arrangement. SPS intends to award by sub-category by region. Small and medium enterprises plus […]
QA Management in the Food Industry Seminar 1 – Steven Thygesen
On 14/3/18 6:30pm at CSIRO (our gracious host), 39 Kessels Road, Coopers Plains (Brisbane) was the first of FIAQ’s QA Management in the Food Industry seminar series. The event was co-promoted by our principal partner Brisbane Marketing, Brisbane’s economic development board, and was booked out; late delegates were turned away. Future Food BOOTCAMP 2018 will […]
Future Food BOOTCAMP 2018
Brisbane and South East Queensland have every ingredient needed to shape the future food and beverage market – from quality products and infrastructure, to research and technology expertise, a business-friendly environment, entrepreneurial spirit, and an investment community hungry for the next big food innovation. Bringing together local trailblazers across food, business and investment, Future Food […]
AFGC State of the Industry report
Queensland was Australia’s largest food and beverage manufacturing exporter in 2015-16, accounting for 28 per cent of the nation’s exports, just ahead of Victoria at 27 per cent, according to the latest Australian Food and Grocery Council’s State of the Industry report. Based on ABS data, the ninth annual report provides a detailed overview and […]
Australian Made calls on consumers to buy local this Christmas! Holiday gift ideas on the largest online product directory of locally made and grown goods
The Australian Made Campaign is calling on consumers to make their purchases count and ‘buy local’ this Christmas, to support Australian farmers and manufacturers, and the retailers that stock their products. Australian Made Campaign Chief Executive, Ian Harrison, says every dollar shoppers spend on Australian-made and Australian-grown gifts and produce for this season’s celebrations will […]
Bega to shell out $12m for peanut grower
Bega Cheese wants to buy Peanut Company of Australia to secure the supply of peanuts for the manufacture of Bega’s peanut butter. Bega Cheese is offering nearly $12 million to take over Queensland peanut grower Peanut Company of Australia (PCA) to give the dairy processor new supplies of Australian-grown peanuts for its own peanut butter […]