19 Oct Ciao celebrates first birthday with a new one litre pack
KWV has marked its Ciao brand’s first birthday, the premium ready-to-serve (RTS) cocktail, with the launch of a convenient new one-litre pack in simply fabulous packaging.
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19 Oct Amstel Lager’s new packaging enhances its iconic appeal
Amstel Lager, SA’s original premium beer brand, has announced the launch of new packaging that incorporates and enhances its iconic brand appeal. With the last update to the packaging in 2007, this contemporary, fresh look is designed to reinforce the premium positioning of...
18 Oct Tapping into South Africa’s largest liquor market
Drinking in the township is no longer limited to the quart and beer crate scene of before. Now, young people want stylish nightspots and the best alcohol money can buy. There’s also a growing wine culture. It’s all about experience...
18 Oct Big risk, big reward: Felix Baumgartner and Red Bull deserve all the marketing buzz they get
Felix Baumgartner's jump from the edge of space on Sunday drew more than eight million concurrent YouTube viewers and hundreds of thousands of Facebook likes and accounted for half of all global trending topics on Twitter. "Will the stunt sell more Red Bull? You, bet...
12 Oct Red Bull targets taste with three new flavours
While the success of Red Bull has never had anything to do with taste*, the company is about to offer something it's never before tried: flavours. [Click to enlarge]
...11 Oct SABMiller expands investment in traditional African beer
SABMiller is taking its African beer brand, Chibuku, to ten countries across the continent, as part of its strategy to produce more affordable beer for lower-income consumers while taking market share from the “informal” alcohol sector, the brewer has said.
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11 Oct Consol’s new 500ml multi-purpose bottle
Nice touch from Consol Glass for the green-savvy consumer: it has launched a new product, the Grip & Go multi-purpose glass bottle. Consol’s solution to keeping water, freshly squeezed juices or milk drinks tasting exactly as they were intended - fresh and delicious...
11 Oct The impressive power of breast milk
Breast-feeding boosts an infant’s immune system and promotes a healthy gut. Scientists are finally isolating the compounds responsible. The result could be a health breakthrough for all ages.
...10 Oct KWV debuts an upmarket brandy and cola RTD
Brandy and cola is one of South Africa’s favourite drinks and now KWV SA has launched a new ready-to-drink (RTD) version with its premium KWV three-year old brandy.
...04 Oct From popsicle maker to beverage billionaire, China’s richest man
Meet Zong Qinghou. He started hawking drinks outside a school 25 years ago, and has since become China's wealthiest man as founder and chairman of the Wahaha beverage group that's now searching for acquisitions beyond China, particularly in Japan and Africa. Notoriously, his joint venture...
04 Oct US: How Kraft created a market with a squeeze bottle
From 0$ to $100-million in less than a year. It has to be the FMCG success story of the decade thus far. It's the story of Kraft Foods' Mio, the flavoured water enhancer that gave birth to a whole new beverage category, largely...
21 Sep Smaller waistlines, sharper minds, stronger bones and healthier hearts? They’re all in a cuppa!
Leading nutrition scientists from around the world convened at the USDA this week to present the latest research supporting the role of tea in promoting good health. Tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world, next to water. Interest in its potential health...
20 Sep Whisky soars in South Africa
Marketing and recruiting new drinkers is a priority for beverage makers thanks to slowing demand in the US and Europe as the economic turmoil takes its toll. Whisky is proving particularly lucrative in South Africa...
13 Sep US: Coca-Cola’s new Dasani Drops
Coca-Cola's newest drink won't come in a bottle or a can. And people will only need a squirt or two to quench their thirst. Following the lead of Kraft's launch of Mio, the world's largest beverage company is preparing to leverage its scale to stake...
13 Sep Beverage ingredients tackle real health issues
The growth in global demand for functional beverages is fuelled by several consumer trends. The number one trend, identified by IFT’s Food Technology magazine, is ‘real food nutrition’, whereby consumers are choosing to get more of their nutrients from the food and beverages they consume,...
13 Sep US: Pouch packaging takes off for alcoholic drinks
Wine, flavoured malt drinks and premixed cocktails are among alcoholic drinks being packaged in a squeezable pouch, with Nielsen reporting that sales of alcoholic drinks in a pouch increased 153% in a year.
...10 Sep New non-alcoholic sparkling white from JC Le Roux
Adult and/or non-alcoholic soft drinks are an obvious beverage trend - and tapping into this is a new, alcohol-free sparkling white [not referred to as wine] launched by Distell's The House of JC Le Roux. As the liquor giant says, "Now fashionistas have a sophisticated...
28 Aug The Heineken Cube beer in a ‘box’ concept
Most obvious food-bev innovation rests in packaging - to here's an interesting new concept for beer: French industrial designer, Petit Romain, has dreamed up a square glass container he dubs the Heineken Cube. [Click on pic to enlarge]
...24 Aug “Gizmo” bottle cap technology gets first commercial launch
The patented "Gizmo Closure and Delivery System," an innovative, pressurised bottle cap design, out of the US, that infuses a drink with fresh, preservative-free ingredients upon opening, has been utilised for the first time in a new range of iced teas, Tea of a Kind.
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24 Aug US: Diet Coke can gets a striking makeover
Beginning September 1, the Diet Coke cans will look a little different. The new design, created by Turner Duckworth, first showed up on supermarket shelves last year as a limited-edition package, but it will now become the regular face of the leading soda brand. The...