Ritesh Kulkarni 
Posting a 12 per cent revenue lift in your first quarter as CEO is a reasonable way to silence early sceptics. For Henrique Braun, who stepped into the top role at The Coca-Cola Company after James Quincey’s departure, the numbers give him a platform — but they also set a high bar for everything that … Read more
The world’s largest dairy exporter has closed its CEO search — and it never needed to look outside its own ranks. Fonterra’s appointment of Richard Allen ends a process that began when Miles Hurrell handed in his notice in December, and the choice of a near two-decade company veteran tells you precisely what the board … Read more
Americans are now paying US$741 more per year to buy the same basket of groceries they bought in 2020 — and most of them have no idea why. Shrinkflation, the practice of reducing pack weight or volume while holding or lifting the retail price, has been quietly eroding real purchasing power in ways that headline … Read more
Automated production that converts yarn directly into a semi-finished garment in minutes — compressing dozens of discrete cut-and-sew steps into a single programmable cycle — is no longer confined to a pilot facility. unspun is moving its AI-enabled 3D weaving technology toward commercial deployment inside the United States, and it has retail-level commitments to back … Read more
Structural differentiation in innovation leadership is not common among mid-tier nonwoven manufacturers. When a company explicitly separates R&D strategy from next-generation product management, it is telling the market something deliberate about where it intends to go. Nonwovenn, headquartered in Bridgwater, England, announced on April 7, 2026, the appointment of Dr. Nisarg Tambe as Director of … Read more
Coles has locked in the only nationwide retail listing for Arnott’s latest limited-edition Tim Tam — and for a biscuit brand with near-universal Australian household penetration, that kind of exclusivity deal tells us a great deal about how premium NPD is being traded at the category level right now. The Tim Tam Iced VoVo layers … Read more
Hazelnut has been circling the top of Australian coffee flavour preference surveys for years, and Bega Group has finally pulled it into the Dare Charged range — a move that tells you something about how seriously the business is reading consumer demand signals in the ready-to-drink coffee category. The launch is Dare Charged Hazel-Nutty, a … Read more
A $62 million settlement is easier to absorb when insurance picks up the entire bill — but the disclosure failures that triggered this class action have already done their work, reshaping how institutional investors read guidance from A2 Milk and its listed FMCG peers. The A2 Milk Company has reached an in-principle agreement to settle … Read more
Post-consumer denim has long been one of textile recycling’s harder technical problems. Stretch construction, polycotton blends with varied mechanical histories, and the performance demands of premium fabric specifications have kept circular systems for denim largely at the pilot stage — and this collaboration is a direct answer to that stall. RE&UP Recycling Technologies, Madewell, and … Read more
For Australian FMCG manufacturers, the gap between those who have already automated and those still running labour-heavy production lines is widening faster than most operations managers want to admit. Rising input costs, constrained margins, and a domestic retail environment that rewards volume efficiency over manual process have pushed automation from capital project to competitive necessity. … Read more
