Cost-of-living pressure is no longer just squeezing baskets. It is changing the way Australians plan, compare and buy groceries, and that matters for every supplier chasing share on shelf. The latest ING Sense of Us 2026 report shows households are trading down, bulk buying and using promotions more deliberately. For FMCG executives, that means the … Read more
Putting a teenage sprinter on a pantry staple is less about novelty than it first appears. For Vegemite, the Gout Gout limited-edition collector’s jar gives a mature spread brand a fresh reason to be noticed in a supermarket fixture where habit usually does most of the selling. The Australian spread brand has released a 380g … Read more
The shift from voluntary to mandatory felt incremental on paper. In practice, it handed suppliers something they hadn’t held in years — a document with genuine enforcement weight sitting behind every trading conversation. Australia’s Food and Grocery Code of Conduct has been reshaped materially in recent periods, and the latest round of changes — including … Read more
A $22 billion figure sitting inside existing grocery operations — not in new categories, not in new markets — is the kind of number that stops a room. The ANZ grocery sector has been optimising in silos for years, and a new white paper argues that approach has run its course. The white paper identifies … Read more