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Functional foods weathered the global economic recession better than most food categories despite a high product failure rate, according to a US-based branding and market expert.
In a new report, Swedish researchers have suggested what the industry for paper packaging and other pulp-derived products, including bio-based barrier and shaping, might look in 15 years’ time.
At first glance the sprawling campus in the glorious Cotswolds countryside looks an unlikely base from which to wage war against Italy’s most feared crime organisation, the ‘Ndrangheta. And yet…
There’s new proof that olive oil is good for you. But you get what you pay for, with high-quality extra virgin varieties far more likely to prevent heart attacks and…
Plans are coming together for the 2014 NZ EVOO Awards, with some great opportunities on offer to winners of this year’s competition. Firstly, Olives New Zealand (ONZ) will offer assistance…
Olives New Zealand have reported a great participation rate in this year’s Grove Census, with 100 members as well as three non-members providing data on 2013 harvest tonnage and yields.…
A heads-up on dates for the 2014 NZ Easter Show Olive Oil Awards: entries close this year on Monday, 1 September, with all oils due a week later. Detailed schedules…
The olive harvest is off to a good start with the hot dry summer combining with the industry’s maturing trees to provide lots of high quality fruit. Olives New Zealand…
The food industry has come out largely in support of this week’s Australian federal Budget, which is being viewed by commentators as the toughest in two decades.
Buyers wanting to be able to judge the quality of olive oil they purchase will gain from knowledge being shared by Australian expert Leandro Ravetti of Boundary Bend, via the…