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Beware of fly by nighters - Cheaper isn?t often better
It seems these days where all looking for the best quality at the cheapest possible price, but sometimes you’ll get mislead in believing that your getting the best quality for a great price and sometimes you are. BUT the real truth is, you wont al...

Freshest ingredients - Don?t believe the hype!
This is my personal blog about the words “freshest ingredients”. It seems every manufacturer of cakes or other food products, advertise that they use nothing but fresh or “the freshest” ingredients. What a load of hogwash… See the truth is that mo...

Epicurean Kitchen - FREE from the China milk scandal
After the withdrawal of 11 CADBURY products, including chocolate eclairs and other chocolate products sold in Australia, Epicurean Kitchen is proud to announce that their bakery is melamine FREE. All chocolates supplied to Epicurean Kitchen are pr...

mmm?. Donuts!!!
Epicurean Kitchen is now distributing premium quality doughnuts from a HACCP accredited supplier, now you can combine your cake order, sandwich order and doughnut order all from the one place. We try to make life easier for all the busy businesses...

Fresh Sandwiches anyone?
Epicurean Kitchen’s fresh food department is proud to announce it’s new sandwich lines. These are hand made sandwiches made in house by our own specially training staff, great flavours, the freshest ingredients and delivered daily to your store. F...

It?s finally here! - Epicurean Kitchen?s New Cake Brochure
After 3 years in the making Epicurean Kitchen is finally releasing a new brochure with major changes. These include 29 new products ranging from individual items to some large cakes as well. Its amazing to see how they squeezed it into 3 pages. Se...

Epicurean Kitchen Re-launches Australian Food Links Directory
Epicurean Kitchen has re-launched the Australian Food Links Directory originally commenced 10 years ago on their website with a new look design. The service provided an industry specific search directory and news service for the food and foodservi...




Sydney Morning Herald
Editorial: Australia's Role Vital To Indonesian Growth
Jakarta Globe
Australian companies have played an important role in developing Indonesia's mining, banking and food sectors, while Australian universities have long ...
Indon...


CANOE
Fat taste discovery calls for more research
TopNews New Zealand
Australian researchers state that one of their recent findings might be one of the keys to obesity and would open new avenues for the researchers to work on ...
Aussies Scientists D...


TopNews New Zealand
Beef origin issue included in Australian food labelling review
ABC Online
The committee conducting the independent review has released a consultation paper, based on 6000 submissions outlining concerns of Australia's food ...
Made ...


TheBull.com.au
Dollar opens flat, constrained by Chinese data
Sydney Morning Herald
The Australian dollar opened little changed on Friday after worrying Chinese inflation data locked the resource sensitive currency into a tight trading ...
Aust bonds ...


ABC Online
Viterra Buys Pasta Plants
Saskatoonhomepage.ca
560 million pounds of pasta are sold annually to the food service, ingredient and private label retail markets. Two production plants and a durum mill are ...
Viterra to Acquire Dakota Growers ...


Dairy Australia to tour south-east Asia
Australian Food
The seminars will target food service companies, retailers, manufacturers, food traders and government officials. Featuring information on Dairy Australia ...




ABC Online
ACCC slams price gouging at Sydney Airport
Sydney Morning Herald
The annual report on airport performance from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is sharply critical of price gouging at Sydney's ...
Sydney Airport labelled n...


New funding for projects that stop waste to landfill
Transport and Logistics News
... on new collection infrastructure and services ? such as retail, offices, major venues, shopping centres, hotels and restaurants, food service, catering, ...




PAUL COLGAN: Sporting away games
Geelong Advertiser
This is no Hollywood couple's restaurant flare-up. Clarke's sudden and stunning decision to return to Sydney to be with Bingle raises questions on his ...

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The Hindu
Australia charges a man over Indian boy's death
BBC News
The latest known attack was in January when Nitin Garg, 21, was stabbed to death as he walked to work at a burger restaurant. Australia's foreign minister ...
Indian Toddler Death In O...


Sydney Morning Herald
So you'll pass on the coffee?
Sydney Morning Herald
Abbott chose to unveil his policy at an International Women's Day event at the Manly Phoenix yum cha restaurant at Manly Wharf. ...

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Australia, NZ Stocks: BHP, Paladin, Ramsay, Restaurant Brands
BusinessWeek
Australia's biggest private hospital operator was downgraded to ?equalweight? from ?overweight? at Morgan Stanley. Restaurant Brands New Zealand Ltd. (RBD ...

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Father sickened by attack on wheelchair-bound son
Vancouver Sun
... him and give him his groceries," said Kim Ford who works at the grocery store. Heath's life seemed to brighten after he met his Australian girlfriend. ...

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Organ grinder has the power, not his monkey
Sydney Morning Herald
There is the Australian Food and Grocery Council, the Australian Hotels Association, the Australian Brewers Association, and the Distilled Spirits and ...

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Woolworths buyer sacked over alleged kickback scheme as supermarket giant ...
Smart Company (blog)
The case has also raised fresh questions about the power of Australia's supermarket majors Woolworths and Coles, and the lengths that grocery manufact...


Woolworths Surges on Buyback, First-Half Profit Gain
BusinessWeek
Coles, owned by Perth-based Wesfarmers Ltd., posted Australian supermarket sales growth of 7.5 percent in the half compared to Woolworths growth of 6 ...
Woolworths profit up 11%, anno...