The Business of Food

21/09/2025

Looking for that inspiration or direction that will take your food business to the next level? Check out the networking or information events on our webpage and we'll see you soon!

18/09/2025

Our next Recipe to Retail information session will also include more detail on our Ignite Food Passions program. If you think it's time you spent some quality time on your business and your food product, make sure you book your place for our next online session! Six weeks of workshops delivered by experts in their fields and covering topics of challenge on the food business journey. The program even includes personalised mentoring!

17/09/2025

Chocolate on my mind! With not one, but two, news stories popping up in my Inbox this week, who can blame me? This one from Haigh's Chocolates in South Australia.

Haigh’s Chocolates has opened a $120 million warehouse and online fulfilment facility SA as it prepares to expand chocolate production.

14/09/2025

World Food Day marks the founding of FAO, and this year, the Organization turns 80! If you know of any events in Australia that are scheduled to mark this global milestone, let us know.

Collective action across 150 countries is what makes World Food Day one of the most celebrated days of the UN calendar. Hundreds of events and outreach activ...

03/09/2025

Looking to the archives and found some good advice from Startup Smart - we'd love to know how you survived your first year in business.

Your first year is what you’re going to look back on with an incredible weight of emotion.

02/09/2025

Taking your recipe from the benchtop to the retail store means navigating the ups and downs of the typical food business journey. We've pulled together a high level overview of what to expect and what you can achieve. We'll also include an introduction to the Ignite Food Passions program scheduled for later this year, where you can gather practical insights from real experts.

27/08/2025

Have you planned your weekend food plans yet? Here's one to put on the list.... See you there! Image included for interest - there's heaps of great food options listed on their website. https://bourne-local.com.au/moorabbin-market/

24/08/2025

Hi there, Food Business people! If you work in (or with) the food industry, we'd love you to join us at our Food Focus Network monthly meetup this Wednesday in Dandenong. It's a casual affair that brings together food people over a light lunch to talk about challenges and opportunities and establish meaningful relationships in a highly stressful industry. So, if you are a food photographer, marketer, packaging expert, or producer, you are welcome to share your knowledge and experience.

20/08/2025

...and we're back! Excited to see the refreshed look by Blade and website by Webby Web Design 🎉

20/08/2025

Yes, we realise our website is down ... visit our eventbrite page to join us at lunch next week at the Food Focus Network Dandenong

Date: 27 aug • 12:00

If talking food and business is your thing, then join us at Food Focus Network for a lunchtime of delicious eats and networking with others!

18/08/2025

From Brazil comes a fascinating and powerful case study to model - even for a nation classified as "developed". Showcasing the results to be achieved by politics and policies that support people first. https://foodtank.com/news/2025/07/hunger-is-a-choice-brazil-just-proved-it?fbclid=IwY2xjawMPiodleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFHWThRWnAwWEw5MVhXUTVyAR5oZl00ktyMXJIzGrm2D2tI6wr0FY40hZ_iiVG22EW1Yryr6ecMcByU0Rt4eA_aem_E8bjexQb79cNASzp7claJg

Brazil showed the world that ending hunger is about politics, not profits. 🌍✊

Read Raj Patel’s powerful op-ed today on Food Tank: https://foodtank.com/news/2025/08/op-ed-no-beef-here-brazil-beat-hunger-the-right-way/