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Winner of the Large Retailer Industry Sector award in this year's APCO Awards is Officeworks Ltd, with outstanding results reflected in its APCO Annual Report.

Officeworks has integrated the 2025 National Packaging Targets into its Sustainable Packaging Policy, which prioritises circular design among other sustainability principles.

This reporting period, the team has included either recycled or renewable content within 98 per cent of all packaging and labelled nearly 60 per cent with the Australasian Recycling Label (ARL).

The company supported this through developing a Sustainable Packaging Roadmap and Dashboard and reviewing nearly three thousand packaging SKUs against the Sustainable Packaging Guideline. As a result, Officeworks redesigned larger packaging formats to remove polystyrene and achieve optimisation across nearly 40 per cent of all packaging products.

Additionally, already committed to diverting at least 90 per cent of all waste from landfill by 2020, 2019 saw Officeworks successfully divert 84 per cent of operational waste from landfill and actively engage both suppliers and customers around the importance of packaging sustainability and waste diversion.

Food & Drink Business

As the Australian functional beverage market continues to grow, emerging companies are still finding places to slot in. Alcohol recovery drink, Dodge, hit stores in mid-2022, and has taken off across the Asia-Pacific region with its science-backed formula and striking branding. Food & Drink Business spoke with co-founder, Braeden Leahy, about the product and plans for the future.

The former deputy chief of staff to the federal communications minister, Amanda Watson, has been appointed CEO of the Brewers Association of Australia (BAA).  Watson starts in the role on 14 July and replaces John Preston, who had been in the role for five years.

The Victorian government has invested $160,000 to support the sustainability and profitability of the state’s wine industry, matched by $240,000 from Wine Australia. The funds will help Wine Victoria to provide the wine industry with the knowledge, tools and resources needed to improve practices and outcomes.