17 Mar Oatly goes big in the UK
Swedish alt-milk brand Oatly, which is gearing up for a US stock market listing, has announced plans to open one of the world’s biggest plant-based dairy factories in the UK.
01 Mar Stylish packaging revamp for Esprit
Distell's 36-year old Esprit brand, is sporting new-look packaging and a conversion from paper to pressure-sensitive labels.
01 Mar The Switch Energy Drinks story
Have you heard of Switch Energy Drinks? Me neither... but here is a local company but six years old that's selling millions of its cans in 12 countries. Here's an interview with its founder and MD....
12 Feb Covid can fest for Nampak
Nampak, Africa's biggest packaging and somewhat beleaguered packaging manufacturer, is enjoying a surge in demand for its aluminium beverage cans as booze drinkers take their favourite drinks home - in a can.
28 Jan Heineken SA says Windhoek ad wasn’t meant to ‘offend any viewers’
The widely circulated and aired Windhoek Lager advert featuring international actor Gerard Butler received backlash from South Africa’s Advertising Regulatory Board (ARB), which decided last week to ban the commercial for “promoting toxic masculinity”.
28 Jan If Cape Town were a coffee what would it taste like?
Nespresso has launched a Cape Town-inspired coffee as part of its new World Explorations range.
27 Jan Lockdown’s shattering of SA’s wine industry
This is the deeply personal, and at times harrowing account, of what it has been like as a South African winemaker, producer and employer of 100s of desperate employees during the Covid-19 pandemic in a country that continues to ban the sale of any alcohol to devastating effect.
27 Jan Mintel’s global food and drinks trends for 2021
Mintel has outlined three key trends for the global food, drink, and foodservice industries, including analysis, insights, and recommendations centred around the ‘now’ (next 12 months), the ‘next’ (18 months+), and the ‘future’ (five+ years) of consumer behaviour.
27 Jan Founder of Zico beverage brand buys it back from Coca-Cola
Zico Beverages founder Mark Rampolla is bringing his beverage baby back home after seven years apart.
27 Jan Wine producers head to court over alcohol ban
Vinpro wants the ban to be lifted with immediate effect by the court in its hearing on February 5.
25 Jan Taking the immunity trend into a beverage syrup
Global syrups and sauces brand DaVinci Gourmet is capitalising on functional foods with the launch of Beverage Boost in the US.
22 Jan Distell invests in cannabis business amid crippling booze ban
As South Africa’s lockdown prohibition laws continue to cripple the liquor industry, the country’s leading producer, Distell, has turned to invest in the burgeoning CBD market.
22 Jan Global wine trends to watch in 2021
After being hit hard by Covid-19, global consumption of still and sparkling wine is expected to bounce back in 2021. IWSR analyses which trends will be driving the market.
13 Jan Elderberry soars on the immunity trend
From beverages to bars, more companies are adding the deep purple berry to a variety of products for its hue, flavour and health appeal.
11 Jan Wine in the wake of corona
South African wine blog, Glou Glou, talks wine trends that have been created, enhanced and shifted by the pandemic.
13 Dec Bloody good beer for a bloody good cause
To celebrate menstrual products being made free for all in Scotland, BrewDog has released a new beer titled Bloody Good Beer. [Interesting example of cause marketing. Ed]
08 Dec New Gingerade+ joins the Sir Fruit juice family
With ginger and its great health benefits trending in the age of Covid, SA premium juice company, Sir Fruit, has introduced a new variant, Gingerade+.
27 Nov Hydrosol takes giant step into plant-based ingredients
The plant-based food trend is an over-arching movement around the world - and now Germany's Hydrosol has taken a massive step to serve this market with the launch of a new company, Planteneers – The Plant Based Pioneers.
25 Nov Bernini goes amber in time for SA’s summer
Distell's Bernini, the super-successul fizzy wine RTD range, has added a stylish new fourth variant in time for summer 2020: Amber.
25 Nov PepsiCo’s enormous project to redesign its two-litre bottle
PepsiCo has launched a redesigned 2-litre bottle in four US cities -- with a national rollout to follow -- driven by a desire to improve the bottle's ergonomics without using more plastic.