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

EXCLUSIVE: Who won the 2026 PIDA Awards, and what do this year's winners tell us about the future of packaging? PKN reveals the winners and looks beyond the trophies to identify the key trends emerging from this year's award-winning designs.

Zipform Packaging's David Kilpatrick has been named 2026 Industry Packaging Professional of the Year, recognising his technical innovation and leadership in fibre-based packaging.

Flavour Makers' Christopher Cester has been named Packaging Technologist of the Year, recognising a career built on technical innovation and commercialisation of world-first packaging formats.