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Why Australia's Love Affair With Boxed Wine Endures

Boxed wine is one of Australia’s most extraordinary contributions to the wine industry, also known as cardboardeaux, bag-in-box (BiB) or more commonl...

Why Are Young People Drinking Less Than Their Parents’ Generation Did?

Young people in Australia, the UK, Nordic countries and North America have, on average, been drinking significantly less alcohol than their parents’...

Australia's Woolworths Makes Approach For Drugstore Chain

Top Australian grocer Woolworths Group has made an approach to take over drugstore chain Australian Pharmacutical Industries, besting an already-agreed buy...

South Africa's Woolworths Sees Slide In Profit After Australian Lockdowns

Woolworths Holdings expects first-half profit to fall by more than 20% due to extended lockdowns in Australia and civil unrest at home, the South African r...

SIG-Backed Recycling Project Wins A$1.74m Grant

A beverage carton recycling project, backed by SIG, has won a A$1.74 million (€1.09 million) grant from the Federal and New South Wales (NSW) Governme...

Mastercard Launches Buy Now, Pay Later Service

Mastercard Inc on Tuesday launched a buy now, pay later service, tapping into a market that is threatening to chip away at the dominance of credit cards as...

China Steps Up Australian Wheat Imports Despite Trade Standoff

China is snapping up cargoes of Australian wheat despite a bitter trade standoff between the two countries, as crop downgrades elsewhere lead to a global s...

Australia Prepares For Bumper Wheat Harvest

Eighteen months after drought ravaged Australian farms, grain growers are on course to harvest a second consecutive bumper crop as global wheat prices hove...