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CONTENTS OCTOBER 2018
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✷ REGULARS
5 NEWS
Strawberry crisis; Honey scandal; Coke buys MOJO; Simplot carves off Top Cut; Kirin mulls Lion sale.
8 ON TREND
Emerging export markets are hot topics, but don’t overlook tasty opportunities closer to home.
18 SHOW WRAP Australian exhibitors headed to Auckland last month to spruik their wares to the New Zealand food and beverage market.
46 SMART BUSINESS Why blockchain is the key to serving up a well-balanced food and beverage supply chain.
48 NEW IN STORE
Exotic artisan jams; Protein punch; Fruity Pepsi Max; Party in the Freezer aisle; Sparkled to a T; Summer in an IPA; Thin-cut roast chicken chips; Whittaker’s expands range and reach.
50 WHAT’S ON
The world’s largest food innovation exhibition, SIAL Paris, kicks off this month from 21-25 October at Paris Nord Villepinte.
✷ FOCUS 20 Dairy
26 PlantDesign
32 PackagingEquipment&Materials
✷ FEATURES
20 A LIGHTER
HOOFPRINT
Bannister Downs’ new $30m robotic dairy is already winning awards and is also leading the way on packaging technology. By Lindy Hughson
✷ INDUSTRY INSIGHT
10 Blue Sky
Tribe Breweries co-founder Stefan Szpitalak reveals the strategy behind a new $35 million craft brewery and lofty export ambitions.
12 Rising Star
The world’s rarest chocolate is not the only secret to Tasmanian chocolatier House of Anvers, writes Samantha Schelling.
16 Thought Leader
A company culture that empowers its people is at the beating heart of design build firm Wiley, as its MD Tom Wiley explains.
26 DISTRIBUTION
CENTRE BREAKS
NEW GROUND
Woolworths’ new Dandenong distribution centre boasts 14km of high-speed conveyors and 50 robots and is Victoria’s largest industrial highbay.
By Amanda Bryan
34 A GLASS ACT A thirst for purity is giving Beloka Water an edge in the bottled water market.
By Louisa Hearn
ON THE COVER: In an Australian first, WA’s Brownes Dairy has turned yoghurt on its head – literally. Positioned as a ‘life hack’ product, Top Down Yoghurt features quirky on-pack graphic design crafted by Boxer & Co, and the squeezy bottle is designed to be easy and quick to use, and also ticks the fun box.
42 Hygiene&Safety
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