FMCG Jobs & Recruitment

FMCG Jobs & Recruitment

There is a real demand in the fast moving consumer goods industry for people who like challenges, and a constant stream of exciting opportunities is advertised in the media. On this page are the key specialist recruitment companies working in the industry, and as...
Trading Partner Forum

Trading Partner Forum

Trading Partner Forum is the only industry body that brings together suppliers and retailers/wholesalers in Australia and New Zealand to promote industry-wide initiatives in the supply chain that deliver benefits to the industry and the shopper. In an increasingly...
Shelf life: preparing and handling food

Shelf life: preparing and handling food

The Ministry for Primary Industries has published a document detailing advice on shelf-life of food. It has been developed to help food operators determine the shelf life of their food products and to apply the appropriate date marking. It provides useful information...
Weights & Measures

Weights & Measures

Changes have been made to weights & measures legislation and regulations concerning traders who sell products by weight or measure. The main changes involve: Requiring traders who deliver goods sold by weight or measure to a purchaser outside your business...
Winning in January/Summer

Winning in January/Summer

The toolkit provides guidance for improving product availability and delivering improved shopper satisfaction in the summer period, and is an addition, not an alternative, to detailed internal and trading partner planning and deployment. It offers a clear and simple...

Guideline for shelf-ready packaging

The Trading Partner Forum has endorsed a trans-Tasman guideline for shelf ready packaging that aims to deliver alignment on key issues, providing a consistent approach across the Australian and New Zealand industries. The TPF, a forum of the Australian FGC, says the...
Food and Product Recall & Withdrawal

Food and Product Recall & Withdrawal

Food recalls can be seen two ways – as a positive that the food safety system is working and that products that don’t comply can be traced and withdrawn, or as a negative in that regular recalls are an indication the company has a weakness in their system. Needing to...
Barcodes decoded for new users

Barcodes decoded for new users

The common retail bar code is surrounded by mystery for many new users. They often complain at the difficulty they have finding out who to ask and where to go to get the barcodes they have been told they need. A web search on “barcodes” can throw up thousands of...