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acquired its peanut butter business including assets and goodwill.
The trade dress of Kraft and Bega’s peanut
butter, which was agreed to be “a jar with a yellow lid
and a yellow label with a blue or red peanut device, with the jar having a brown appearance when
filled”, was
acquired with the rest of Mondelez’s assets when Bega bought the
company, concluded Justice David O’Callaghan in his ruling.
In a statement, Bega said it was pleased with the decision, which it said found that Kraft’s continued use of the trade dress was “misleading or deceptive” under Australian consumer law.
THE BIG FOOD COLLABORATION
It was announced the Sunshine Coast icon The Big Pineapple would be transformed into a food and beverage manufacturing and tourism precinct, with a fast growing yoghurt company announced as its first anchor tenant.
Organic yoghurt company COYO began redeveloping a former macadamia nut factory on the 170ha Big Pineapple site in order to establish its international base there.
Built in 1971, the 16m heritage-listed tourist attraction looks much the same as at the height of its fame in the 1980s when it was Australia’s number one tourist attraction.
The planned $60 million food manufacturing and agribusiness precinct is part of a broader $150 million renewal project to transform the site, which is expected to create 600 jobs.
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Diageo Australia managing director David Smith said the move was about “removing barriers to career progression and ensuring talent is retained and nurtured”.
The announcement was part of a global roll-out by Diageo; it would also set a “global minimum standard” of four weeks paternity leave on full pay across its global business, the company said.
IFBA PLEDGE TO ELIMINATE TRANS-FAT ‘FOOD VILLAIN’
Twelve food and beverage ‘powerhouses’ of the International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) pledged to phase out industrially-processed trans-fat from global food supply by 2023, following the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) initiative to eradicate the ingredient worldwide.
The IFBA members, including The Coca-Cola Company, Nestlé and Unilever, support WHO’s REPLACE action plan launched last year: a step-by-step guide on eliminating industrially- produced trans-fatty acids to the global food supply.
GlobalData consumer insights analyst Katrina
Diamonon said the trans-fat pledge may
represent a ‘slippery slope’ for brands to
navigate if WHO continues to crack down on renowned ‘food
villains’. “Consumption of
trans fats is directly and incontrovertibly
linked to a range of negative health outcomes, and its elimination is perceived as an obvious way to improve public health,” Diamonon told Food & Drink Business.
FONTERRA SELLS TIP TOP ICE CREAM
New Zealand’s 80-year-old ice cream company Tip Top was sold by Fonterra to Nestlé and R&R joint venture Froneri. It was sold for NZ$380 million (US$250.2 million).
Fonterra CEO Miles Hurrell said the sale was “bittersweet”.
“One of the big
attractions
for Froneri
is the fact
that Tip Top
and Ka-piti
ice cream
both use fresh milk and
cream, from New Zealand grass-fed cows. We’ve
signed an agreement with
the new owners to supply milk which ensures that Fonterra farmers will continue to be part of the Tip Top story.”
Froneri is the third largest ice cream manufacturer in the world, selling a staple of ice cream brands in 20 countries. Froneri CEO Ibrahim Najafi said the Tip Top name and its operations, including the Auckland based factory site at Mount Wellington, would be maintained.
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from Central Queensland University (CQU) built an automated mango harvester prototype. In a trial on a farm in Yeppoon, the prototype recorded 75 per cent efficiency in automatically identifying and picking fruit in view.
CQU professor Kerry Walsh said that the auto-harvester represents a significant departure from traditional bulk harvesters, which knock
all the fruit from a tree to the ground and are suitable for processing applications where external damage isn’t
an issue.
“This machine
is trying to pick
one fruit at a time
without damaging
it. Pack houses have
been mechanised, and taking that technology out into the field is where things are at. Technology like machine vision and mechatronics can be
used in the field to selectively pick a fruit according to
size and colour,” he says.
DIAGEO LEADS ON PARENTAL LEAVE International drinks producer Diageo gave all employees 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave, regardless of gender, carer status or length of service.
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VAUGHAN WINS KAUFLAND BUILD
Industrial building firm Vaughan Constructions was awarded the contract to build Australia’s largest distribution centre for German supermarket company, Kaufland, on a 28 hectare site in Mickleham, Victoria. Kaufland was previously granted planning approval for three supermarkets and the distribution centre.
The $255 million facility will include more than 117,000 square metres of building area, over two stages.
Kaufland’s initial investment in Australia is $459 million.
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