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australia’s largest and only asx-listed pizza maker, domino’s pizza enterprises, has today confirmed a 29.7% rise in net profit after tax as online ordering and their new menu were well received by customers. same store sales for the full year grew 4.6% over the corresponding period last year, and the company added 35 stores to their network. they now operate 776 stores, including 439 in australia, 77 in new zealand, 166 in france and belgium and 94 in the netherlands.

tesco, the uk’s largest retailer, has begun displaying a carbon footprint label on their full fat, semi-skimmed and skimmed milk ranges as part of the company’s groundbreaking work to include carbon labels on all their private label goods. the retailer hopes to have the carbon footprint label on 500 products by the end of the year. the move to carbon footprint comes on the back of new independent consumer research which found that 50 per cent of customers surveyed now understand the correct meaning of the term ‘carbon footprint’, compared to only 32 per cent of people surveyed in 2008.

the notion of going green, buying organic, and sourcing free trade products is gathering momentum in australia and around the world, but research released in australia suggests the added expense remains a significant deterrent. business information analysts ibisworld decided to test the theory that sustainable grocery shopping was too expensive, revealing that, while the ‘organic’ food shopping basket was 70% more expensive, there are a host of cost-effective ‘green’ options.

the food and beverage market is a central player in consumer perceptions of sustainability and new research has established the motivation behind sustainable purchases by shoppers. a report by market research firms packaged facts and the hartman group, consumers and sustainability: food and beverage, has discovered that, when the consumption of sustainable foods is motivated by personal benefits, adoption mirrors a health and wellness progression in which consumers first consider the impacts of things in the body, followed by on the body, and finally around the body.

eating a clove of garlic might not be the tastiest snack in the world, but it will give you some powerful health benefits. benefits include managing high cholesterol levels and decreasing the risk of various cancers. garlic has been used for ages as a folk remedy for several diseases. science is just now discovering how effective it really is in helping us become and stay healthy.supports cardiovascular systemover 250 publications have proven that garlic helps our cardiovascular system.

in the quest to combat childhood obesity, an article and related editorial soon to be published in the journal of pediatrics, explore the relationship between a child’s low inhibitory control, parental restrictive feeding practices, and childhood weight gain. restrictive feeding practices, or forbidding certain foods, may not always be the best solution. a child’s inhibitory control, a behavior similar to self-control, may be more important than parental restrictions.

intermed discovery (imd) acquired unique microbial omega-3 fatty acid production strains and related technology from the university of saarland, saarbrucken, germany; financial terms were not disclosed. according to the company, the microbial source has the potential to sustainably and reliably produce significantly yields of omega-3 fatty acids, with favorable levels of the long-chain eicosapentaenoic acid (epa) and docosahexaenoic acid (dha).

though still a star of the packaged beverages category, energy drinks are seeing rapidly slowing sales growth as energy shots take off and newer products shake up the cooler, according to industry players. sales of alternative beverages, a segment dominated by energy drinks, grew an average 12 percent per c-store last year (11.1 percent channel-wide), which is still healthy, but a far cry from the nearly 29-percent sales jump the subcategory posted in 2007, according to the convenience store news 2009 industry report.

global sugar prices have skyrocketed to 28-year highs in recent weeks on supply shortage concerns and speculative momentum, leading to pressure on costs for manufacturers. a supply deficit in india due largely to low monsoonal rainfall has resulted in a rapid run down in world inventory levels, sparking the strongest price action seen in the market in almost three decades. meanwhile, wet weather in brazil has raised concerns that the industry may mill less cane and produce less sugar than previously expected.

gone are the days when shoppers selected retailers based on convenience, merchandising, promotions and affordability, new research from america suggests, as shopper loyalty becomes a much more complex subject. when mortgage and financial markets weakened, and energy and food prices spiked, shoppers around the world flocked to cheaper retail outlets across almost every retail category. in australia, this saw some of the smaller competitors in upmarket grocery space face difficulty as well as a few organic retailers - such as macro wholefoods; while aldi was seen as one of the major beneficiaries.