A storm is brewing over how to make sure your honey is what it claims to be on the bottle. Australia’s biggest listed honey company and some of the country’s largest supermarket chains face [...]
Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith has announced he is closing his line of Australian-made groceries, Dick Smith Foods, blaming competition by the Aldi supermarket chain, which he says has made [...]
The similarities are often striking: supermarket giant Aldi’s cut-price products are packaged in ways that evoke leading brands, including Nurofen, Sultana Bran and Mars bars. It is a [...]
A few things have happened in the last few weeks that made me ask that question. Coles MD John Durkan articulated a clear strategy for house brands, to build them at the expense of proprietary [...]
Supermarkets across Australia have begun recalling bags of frozen vegetables amid fears they could contain a deadly bacteria. Food Standards Australia New Zealand confirmed a precautionary recall [...]
