For the dairy industry ABARES has estimated milk production to rise by 4 per cent to 9.25 billion litres in 2017-18 in response to “farmgate milk prices and lower input prices”.
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Independent Brewers Australia (IBA) – the association that supersedes the CBIA – has welcomed the support for its members shown by both major parties in a parliamentary debate this week.
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Singapore Airlines recently announced that Garage Project Hapi Daze Pacific Pale Ale was now available on flights to and from the brewer’s homeland of New Zealand
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The Weekly Times asked some major southern processors about prices for the coming season. An interesting read!
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SUPPORT FOR THE SMALL independent operators comes from Mr Albanese, who has a craft beer named after him — Albo Corn Ale by Willie the Boatman at St Peters — is lobbying for the current two-tier beer tax regimen to be axed.
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The Gouldings are now calling on Fonterra to lose their ‘good news’ PR spin and be honest with their suppliers, especially concerning opening prices
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THE dairy industry is bracing for a major wave of change as farmers gear up to swap processors in their chase for better farmgate milk prices.
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Do Australia and China share a hard earned thirst for the fairer competition protections of the US?
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The Attorney General alleged that the brewer, fined $USD2m for trade practice violations, had sold beer tap systems at below market and tried to hide the transactions by misleading descriptions on invoices.
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Though often difficult to distinguish, the easiest way to differentiate between contract and gypsy brewing is to look at who’s doing what.
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The case had been expected to recover $30m but ended with a lump sum settlement sum of $6.75m.
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From time to time I will post bits of information about class action process, so that Independent brewers considering the potential case understand how class actions work.
New Zealand dairy group Fonterra will spend NZD$20 million ($14.2 million) in expanding its Te Rapa factory to meet growing demand for butter and cream cheese in Asia.
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MURRAY Goulburn’s opening price of $4.70 a kilogram of milk solids for its southern suppliers next season has been met with shock and anger by dairy farmers.
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“The Facebook page is a way of gauging whether there is a critical mass out there. It’s starting to very much look like it, but if brewers want this [to proceed] they’ll have to jump on the Facebook page or contact me, for two reasons: One, we won’t do it if there isn’t a critical mass. Two, if they don’t step up they won’t get the benefit of it.” Adley Burstyner
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Poor business acumen and extreme mismanagement by the board was behind Murray Goulburn’s decision, while Fonterra did the same thing in a year it went on to post an $800 million profit – making the demands for cash a bitter pill for producers to swallow.
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“We do not and will not participate in the market-distorting practice of beverage rebates.”
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The Americans call it "pay to play”: favors for product placement which "falls somewhere below the line of what’s legal or ethical".
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AN ONLINE petition calling for Fonterra to pay back their suppliers has attracted more than 19,500 signatures in a couple of weeks.
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Fonterra, the world’s largest dairy exporter, posted revenue of $13.9bn (€8.75bn) for the first nine months of 2016/17, which is up by 8% on the same period last year.
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