Australia’s food manufacturing facing an ‘uneven playing field’

Australian Food and Grocery Council CEO Tanya Barden says with the food manufacturing moving offshore in recent decades the industry faces “real challenges” which require confrontation to see stronger growth.

“The challenges for all manufacturing is quite different from the food and grocery sector,” she said.

“Over the last decade you can see that input and output prices really track alongside each other and, over time, you expect that rising costs will be passed through into final product prices.

“The challenge with food and grocery manufacturing is that over the last…