The search for something new, different, and exciting is leading flavour developments in food and beverage, supported by an ongoing interest in natural, clean label and healthier options, asserts Innova Market Insights.
Mexican beer brand, Corona, has created a prototype solution to the 17 million tons of plastic generated by beverage packaging each year – a screwable, stackable can. [This is brilliant! Ed]
In 2018, gin consumption in South Africa grew by an astonishing 50%, to half a pint (250ml) for every man, woman and child. No wonder that distilleries are mushrooming, trying to give a colonial tipple a distinctive flavour of the fynbos.
The countdown has started: food & drink technology Africa, the trade fair for the food, beverage and packaging industries in southern Africa, will start in ten days time. The focus of the fourth edition of the event will be on sustainability and trends in food and beverage production.
The founders of cannabis-infused “social tonic” Cann are riding high after being named the winners of New Beverage Showdown 17 hosted by BevNET Live Summer 2019, held June 12-13 in New York City.
Heineken UK will add nutritional information labelling to all its cider packaging in 2019 to let consumers easily find ingredients used in their drinks.
According to the National Coffee Association (NCA), the percentage of Americans drinking coffee every day has risen from 57% to 62% over the past year.The key factors that may boost the coffee consumption in the US are: The rise in interest with gourmet coffee varieties. The increase in past-day coffee...
Coffee – the original energy drink – is being reinvented for a new generation. The pace of change is accelerating, new types of coffee-based products are proliferating and a brief window of opportunity remains open for innovation.
KFC South Africa has officially announced the removal of plastic for paper straws in over 900 restaurants across South Africa by July 1, helping to eliminate 60 million plastic straws a year.
Tate & Lyle’s stabiliser solutions have helped a Pretoria dairy company create a new range of low cost, long shelf life dairy products.
Healthy beverages are in demand globally, including in the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Join Kerry Taste & Nutrition for a webinar where experts will discuss key aspects of this trend, including clean label, sugar reduction and fortification.
We have a love/hate relationship with artificial sweeteners. If you listen to any mainstream diet advice these days, sugar is literally the devil, so avoiding it is a great idea. But replacing it with artificial sweeteners is apparently just as bad, because they’re scary chemicals that can cause everything from cancer to diabetes.
Costa Coffee has launched its first new product since Coca-Cola acquired the company for $5.1bn last August: a range of RTD coffees that will debut in the UK this month.
With the global alcoholic RTD market on a strong growth curve, British start-up, Nice, has sexed up the wine-in-a-can concept, launching a pale rosé and a sauvignon blanc for Sainsbury’s 600 stores.
Scotch producer Whyte & Mackay has released the 21.5-percent ABV Whyte & Mackay Light, billed as “a lighter spirit drink from Scotland, made from Scotch whisky married with Sherry”.
America’s darling sparkling or seltzer water, LaCroix, appears to be victim of a burst market bubble and is quickly losing its fizz…
SA households spend more on wine than on coffee, but beer still comes out tops as South Africans' most preferred beverage, said Stats SA in a recent press release to mark National Wine Day on May 25.
When Cape Town-based dairy farm Fair Cape Dairies decided to package its Single Origin EcoFresh milk in white plastic bottles it seemed like a good idea. White PET bottles are technically acceptable for recycling, but it turns out that they're not as recyclable as once thought.
Nampak is trying to grow its share of the market for packaged beverages in SA by positioning its cans as an environmentally-friendly substitute.
There are three months to go to the commencement of this year’s premier event of the South African food and beverage industry.