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This year’s national industry event will be held in from September 17-19 at the Mercure Resort in the Hunter Valley, NSW, and will also include the inaugural levy payers meeting.…
This month the organisations Nutrition Australia and the Australian Olive Association are co-hosting a series of free seminars on the health benefits of consuming extra virgin olive oil. The events…
Border olive growers are harvesting their crops later this season. A heatwave at the start of the year and unseasonably warm weather has pushed the harvest back several weeks. But…
In its annual overview for the 2014 Australian and New Zealand Olive Industry Directory, the AOA estimates 2013 domestic olive oil production at 19 million litres, following a reduced crop…
Tasmanian olive oil producers are looking to share their liquid gold with consumers in China as the boutique industry expands. Plans are in the pipeline to send Tasmanian olive oil…
A flourishing domestic tourist destination has sprung up on the temperate plateau just north of Inverell. Heather Parsons returned to her family’s plot with her husband Les in 1976, and…
Australian premium extra virgin olive oil producer, Boundary Bend Olives has been inducted into the 2014 Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame by Victorian Minister for Manufacturing, David Hodgett.
Despite the difficult harvest and the poor economic and trading trends, this has been a very good year for Italian extra virgin olive oil, which raked up a lot of…
New York-based olive oil and Mediterranean specialty foods producer Kangadis Foods, Inc. has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New…
The new chair of the International Olive Oil Council is very active since the early days of his inauguration, including confrontations with the Executive Director Barjol and a proposal shock:…