PLAY PKN: Video Bulletin 26 July

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Food & Drink Business

US-based bioalternatives scale-up platform, Manus, has opened its new, purpose-built application hub in Singapore to support customers and partners across the Asia-Pacific region.

Australia’s food ministers have voted to begin the process of making the Health Star Rating (HSR) system mandatory on eligible packaged foods, after new monitoring showed the voluntary scheme fell well short of its agreed uptake target and has struggled to build consistent consumer confidence.

South-east Melbourne’s largest speculative cold storage facility has been launched to the leasing market, with Hale Capital Partners’ 27,291sqm “Adapt” project at Oakleigh South targeting completion in December 2026.