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food australia magazine - Pre-AIFST 50th Anniversary Convention issue – Book your advertising today and take advantage of new bundle opportunities!

The May/June edition of food australia will be a bumper issue as we lead up to the AIFST 50th Anniversary Convention. This edition provides the chance to further promote and communicate your business offering ahead of the Convention and foodpro exhibition. 

Top 5 Food Trends in 2017

If you are in the food business, you are in the fashion business. Food trends are inspired by a myriad of influences - from social and political events, economic and geographical dynamics through to generational changes - that shape the resulting shifts in attitudes and behaviours towards nourishing ourselves and the next generation...

What trends are influencing food and health?

Our food consumption and eating patterns are constantly shaped by the world around us. Historically, we see food trends influenced by social change and world events, the environment, economics, medicine and technology. However, we must also acknowledge that if you are in the food business, you are also in the fashion business...

Investing in innovative world-first technology

Investing in world-first technologies that haven’t been tried or tested can be a daunting step for food manufacturers, let alone any company, but for one Australian juice company, an investment into innovative world-first technology has now paid off. CEO of Preshafruit, Alastair Mclachlan shares his insights on disrupting and challenging crowded markets.

Digital disruption – where is it taking the food industry?

Digital disruption plays a big part in transforming the way companies and agencies operate, and how they talk to their customers. This is no different for the food industry. We take a sneak peek into the mind of one of Australia’s most reputable speakers on future trends to find out about digital disruption and what this will mean for the future of food.

Current challenges and opportunities in the Australian food industry

With an extensive career in the food industry, Managing Director of Simplot Australia and Chair of the Australian Food & Grocery Council (AFGC) Terry O’Brien says it’s important to have a broad contextual view of the future of the food industry.

Fuelling the dairy innovation economy

I believe Australia needs to break away from the notion that innovation is something that only happens while wearing a lab coat. In what is a crowded dairy marketplace, Chobani Managing Director Peter Meek shares three important insights on how the dairy company has managed to go from strength to strength.

Australia's direct export opportunities

He lived and worked in China for 18 years and now runs an organisation to help regional Queensland’s economic development, particularly for the food and agriculture sector. Through his role as CEO at Toowoomba and Surat Basin Enterprise (TSBE) and its Food Leaders Australia (FLA) initiative, Dr Ben Lyons shares some insights for cracking the Chinese market.

Why you're thinking about innovation all wrong

There’s no doubt about it, innovation is the word of the moment. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has firmly put innovation on Australia’s agenda for future prosperity and has committed billions across all industries as part of the National Innovation and Science Agenda. But if you’re one of the many business owners or company workers who thinks ‘innovation’ sounds great in theory, but you have no idea how to put it into practice, you’re not alone.