NFIS Ltd ceased operations on June 30 2007. This website is being maintained by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF). No new content will be added and this site should be considered an archive only. Some content may be out of date, you should see the Department's website for all latest information.

News

The Innovators Forum – a future vision for Australia’s food industry attracted more than 70 delegates from around Australia for a two day conference June 7 -8. See all the details in our Innovation Forum section, and our Media section has the media release.

Innovators book The lessons learned from Australian food industry innovators have also been been captured in a new large format book.

Launched at the Forum, the book titled 'The Innovators - A Future Vision for Australia's food industry' was a limited edition print run, but we can share it with you in PDF form.

With beautiful photography and inspirational case studies, it's well worth downloading the big file (6.6mb), download it here.

First India, then Dubai and now the United Kingdom gets an 8 Steps toolkit. The NFIS Ltd Market Development team have been working with Austrade, the various State Depts. of Primary Industries and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to create these documents. Designed to assist the Australian food industries to export to the United Kingdom and Europe. We are still adding material to the toolkit but it is already a great resource. Visit the UK now >

Read the last edition of

Our glossy magazine of industry news was sent to 5000 subscribers and is also available online.

In this final issue we look back over the five years of the National Food Industry Strategy and find there are many achievements worthy of celebrating.

We talk about industry partnerships, the passion of regional producers to value-add, food safety, building bridges, exporting, raising capital and lots more.

You can download a copy here > (5mb PDF) or read the contents as a web document here >

For a great overview of what those achievements include, see this story from the latest issue - Partnerships in innovation drive the National Food Industry Strategy.

The freshlogic report, Australian Food Industry: Retail market trends and their implications mentioned in foodbiz, is available here as a PDF.

The Learn to value–add 2007 workshop and conference for regional food producers was a great success. We've created a special section on this website to include some of the material. There are videos of the speakers presentations, their Powerpoint slides, and more. Start Value-adding here>.

Knowing the score
The National Food Industry Scorecard 2005-06 is out, and online now. You'll find it along with find those from past years in our Facts and Figures section, choose the National Scorecard from the menu.

Facts and Figures

Along with the Scorecard, the latest 2005-2006 data on Australian Food Imports and Exports is now on our Key Industry Facts page and in our Report Archives. This data is cumulative from 1966 to 2006 and covers produce categories, sectors, levels of processing and much more.

Other areas NFIS Ltd cover

Environmental Sustainability

NFIS Ltd sponsored the Allen Consulting Group report into Environmental Sustainability in the Australian Food Industry: the Commercial Opportunities in August 2004. The issues have now been examined in a major publication by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Titled Assessing the Environmental Performance of the Food Value Chain 2006 it is available as a full report (1.46mb PDF) and a factsheet summary (327k PDF). Both are on the DAFF website publications area.

Innovation

Plant proteins from wheat retain a cereal flavour. The Manildra Group has developed technology that produces food ingredients from wheat protein which retain their nutritional value, have much less cereal flavour and allow replacement of more expensive protein sources, such as milk protein.
Read more >

Chain Competitiveness

This NFIS Ltd project used the pineapple segment of Golden Circle as a catalyst for the first Lean project in Australia. Now, three years later, the project has proved so successful that the company have applied the process across all their business. Read more >

OTHER NEWS

Media Release

UK Supermarket chain backs buy Australian campaign

One of Britain 's major supermarket chains is urging shoppers to buy Australian in a unique collaborative program involving seven food and wine producers. Read more >


	HOME ABOUT NFIS NFIS NEWS INNOVATION MARKET DEVELOPMENT CHAIN COMPETITIVENESS SUSTAINABILITY SKILLS FACTS AND FIGURES CONTACT US	Home : National Food Industry Strategy Ltd NFIS Ltd ceased operations on June 30 2007. This website is being maintained by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF). No new content will be added and this site should be considered an archive only. Some content may be out of date, you should see the Department's website for all latest information. News The Innovators Forum – a future vision for Australia’s food industry attracted more than 70 delegates from around Australia for a two day conference June 7 -8. See all the details in our Innovation Forum section, and our Media section has the media release. The lessons learned from Australian food industry innovators have also been been captured in a new large format book. Launched at the Forum, the book titled 'The Innovators - A Future Vision for Australia's food industry' was a limited edition print run, but we can share it with you in PDF form. With beautiful photography and inspirational case studies, it's well worth downloading the big file (6.6mb), download it here. First India, then Dubai and now the United Kingdom gets an 8 Steps toolkit. The NFIS Ltd Market Development team have been working with Austrade, the various State Depts. of Primary Industries and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to create these documents. Designed to assist the Australian food industries to export to the United Kingdom and Europe. We are still adding material to the toolkit but it is already a great resource. Visit the UK now > Read the last edition of Our glossy magazine of industry news was sent to 5000 subscribers and is also available online. In this final issue we look back over the five years of the National Food Industry Strategy and find there are many achievements worthy of celebrating. We talk about industry partnerships, the passion of regional producers to value-add, food safety, building bridges, exporting, raising capital and lots more. You can download a copy here > (5mb PDF) or read the contents as a web document here > For a great overview of what those achievements include, see this story from the latest issue - Partnerships in innovation drive the National Food Industry Strategy. The freshlogic report, Australian Food Industry: Retail market trends and their implications mentioned in foodbiz, is available here as a PDF. The Learn to value–add 2007 workshop and conference for regional food producers was a great success. We've created a special section on this website to include some of the material. There are videos of the speakers presentations, their Powerpoint slides, and more. Start Value-adding here>. Knowing the score The National Food Industry Scorecard 2005-06 is out, and online now. You'll find it along with find those from past years in our Facts and Figures section, choose the National Scorecard from the menu. Facts and Figures Along with the Scorecard, the latest 2005-2006 data on Australian Food Imports and Exports is now on our Key Industry Facts page and in our Report Archives. This data is cumulative from 1966 to 2006 and covers produce categories, sectors, levels of processing and much more. Other areas NFIS Ltd cover Environmental Sustainability NFIS Ltd sponsored the Allen Consulting Group report into Environmental Sustainability in the Australian Food Industry: the Commercial Opportunities in August 2004. The issues have now been examined in a major publication by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Titled *Assessing the Environmental Performance of the Food Value Chain 2006* it is available as a full report (1.46mb PDF) and a factsheet summary (327k PDF). Both are on the DAFF website publications area. Innovation Plant proteins from wheat retain a cereal flavour. The Manildra Group has developed technology that produces food ingredients from wheat protein which retain their nutritional value, have much less cereal flavour and allow replacement of more expensive protein sources, such as milk protein. Read more > Chain Competitiveness This NFIS Ltd project used the pineapple segment of Golden Circle as a catalyst for the first Lean project in Australia. Now, three years later, the project has proved so successful that the company have applied the process across all their business. Read more > OTHER NEWS Media Release UK Supermarket chain backs buy Australian campaign One of Britain 's major supermarket chains is urging shoppers to buy Australian in a unique collaborative program involving seven food and wine producers. Read more >
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