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

Australia’s plastics recyclers have taken their fight over the Federal Government’s packaging reform backflip to a national TV audience, with iQRenew and ACOR telling Nine’s 60 Minutes that cost of living is no excuse.

Michael Dudley has been appointed group chief executive officer of Big Bag Recovery (BBR) and Circular Communities Australia (CCA).

The NSW Govt has dropped mandatory reusable cup schemes and requirements to offer dine-in mugs or glasses, drawing criticism from three environment groups days after Parliament passed the reforms.