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Australian food company Patties Food Group will help fuel the nation’s Olympic heroes in Paris, and the supporters who cheer them on at home, as an official partner of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC). The three-year partnership, announced today, sees Patties Food Group’s famous Four’N Twenty become the official pie, and performance brand Fitness Outcomes become the official ready meal of the Australian Olympic Team. Four’N Twenty pies and Fitness Outcomes meals will offer Australia’s Olympians a taste of home in the athletes’ village in Paris. Patties Food Group Chief Executive Paul Hitchcock said the company was honoured to be associated with the AOC and the Olympic dreams of the nation’s best athletes. “Our Olympians are working hard to take on the world in Paris and Patties Food Group is proud to be working beside them to enhance the Olympic experience for all who follow and are part of the…

Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has walked away from Labor’s target to have 89 per cent of new car sales electric by 2030, casting doubt on the government’s green agenda. After The Australian revealed Mr Bowen’s electric vehicle strategy was on track to fail with government departmental officials predicting fewer than a third of new car sales would be battery operated by 2030, the Labor frontbencher claimed there was no target. “We don’t have a particular EV target,” Mr Bowen said on Wednesday morning. Come up to me in the street and say, I’d like my next car to be an EV but I’m not really seeing the range of choices that are affordable. “And they’re right because there are many more affordable EVs that are available in other countries that aren’t available here because we don’t have efficiency standards.” from the federal transport department were that electric cars will make up…

CELSIUS and Suntory Oceania enter into definitive manufacturing, sales and distribution agreement. BOCA RATON, Fla., March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Celsius Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CELH), maker of energy drink brand CELSIUS®, today announced plans to expand into new international markets, growing the company’s global sales and distribution footprint to include Australia and New Zealand. “We’re pleased to introduce our refreshing, great tasting and functional CELSIUS energy drinks to consumers in Australia and New Zealand,” said John Fieldly, Celsius Holdings, Inc. Chairman and CEO. “We expect to continue our international growth at a measured pace, targeting strategically important energy drink markets and employing our proven playbook to build a strong and passionate consumer base.”  CELSIUS has selected Suntory Oceania as its exclusive manufacturing, sales and distribution partner in Australia and New Zealand. CELSIUS previously announced a sales and distribution agreement with Suntory Beverage & Food Great Britain and Ireland, and sales in those markets are expected to begin in the second quarter of 2024. “We are excited…

BP has launched a new food for now concept, offering freshly made breakfast and lunch options with seating areas, The Grocer can reveal. Jo Hayward, VP for convenience in Europe at BP, said it followed a trial at two company-owned sites in Holborough and Byron in 2023, with the concept set to be rolled out to a further 10 sites by April. As an extension of its Wild Bean Cafe brand, which is known for its ‘heat to eat’ pastries, baps, and coffee, the latest evolution consists of an in-store kitchen offering freshly prepared food that is made to order. The new menu includes fish finger sandwiches, avocado, halloumi and egg baps, crispy herby chicken burgers and its bestseller, the ‘big breakfast bap’. Hayward explained the range could be customised to customers’ tastes, such as switching mild mustard mayo for spicy gochujang ketchup, choosing rye or white bread, or requesting a runny egg yolk. “Gone are the days when a Coca-Cola…

7-Eleven unveiled a new store in a suburb of Tokyo that will have more than twice the number of products and is almost double the size of regular 7-Elevens. “Our stores are currently not as popular with women, families and younger people,” Keisuke Yamaguchi, an executive officer of Seven & i, said. “How to balance that is our biggest concern when choosing what items to have in the store.” According to the Business Times, the new trial 7-Eleven carries easy-to-prepare groceries, baby products, trendy makeup and other items that are not usually carried at 21,500 outlets across Japan. At the new store are about 2,000 additional products, including fresh fruit, diapers and hair-care products. There will be a larger cafe menu, as well as freshly baked breads and pizza. 7-Elevens in Japan offer everything from fresh food to concert tickets to delivery packages in one place, said the Times. Still, the retailer…

The Amazon-owned grocer’s Whole Foods Market Daily Shop concept aims to offer urban residents a scaled-down shopping experience. Dive Brief: Dive Insight: Several years after shuttering its 365 store concept, Whole Foods is taking another crack at small-format grocery stores. Whole Foods Market Daily Shops will range between 7,000 and 14,000 square feet, about a quarter to half the size of Whole Foods’ traditional 40,000 square foot stores. The new concept will offer grab-and-go meal and snack options as well as grocery essentials, according to an emailed press release.   The smaller locations will also house produce, meat and seafood, bread, alcohol, supplements, local products and Whole Foods’ 365 private brand products. The Manhattan location opening this year will also offer Juice & Java coffee, tea, fresh pressed juices, sandwiches, soups and desserts. The first small-format location is slated to open later this year on the Upper East Side of Manhattan at…