This week’s Top 5 stories

Take a look at the stories that caught everyone’s attention on the Food & Drink Business website this week: Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci resigns; shifts in the plant-based meat landscape; merged businesses form Fonterra Oceania; Bega relocates Betta Milk manufacturing to Hobart; and Wide Open Agriculture looks to offload its retail brand. 

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Packaging News

From fibre bottles to mono-material flexibles and digitally printed cans, this year’s Best Packaging finalists in The Hive Awards showcase how innovation is reshaping performance, sustainability, and scalability across the food and beverage sector.

Orora has downgraded its FY26 earnings outlook for Saverglass, citing both direct operational disruption and broader market impacts stemming from the ongoing Middle East conflict.

Thrace Group has acquired 100 per cent of BHA Holdings Pty Ltd, which operates through Bulk Handling Australia and Bulk Handling New Zealand, strengthening its presence in Oceania.