16 Sep Specialty instant coffee startups on the disruption trail
Premium instant coffee. It sounds contradictory at first. Does such a thing even exist?
Premium instant coffee. It sounds contradictory at first. Does such a thing even exist?
The Ocean Cleanup barge is currently on its way to tackle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but it never hurts to find ways to reduce plastic before it gets into the sea. In that vein, Danish beermaker Carlsberg has announced the Snap Pack, a simple alternative to plastic six-pack rings.
Starbucks has put its popular and super-decadent Frappuccino through a calorie makeover, looking to reduce the drink’s high sugar levels that have scared away increasingly health-conscious consumers and hurt sales.
In England, 16-year-olds can down a pint in a pub, if having a meal in adult company. But under a new government proposal, it would be illegal for them to buy an energy drink like Red Bull.
With the war on single-use plastic raging, there's growing interest in alternative water systems - to wit PepsiCo's recent purchase of SodaStream - and now comes news of Mitte, a German startup with a ‘first of its kind’ smart home water system.
SA's soft drinks company, Twizza, has launched Clark & Sons, a new brand of mixers named after the company's founder, and seemingly following the successful mould of Chill Beverages' Fitch & Leedes range.
Coca-Cola’s swoop for Costa Coffee will cut its exposure to sugar and plastic bottles.... another take on the Coke-Costa story.
Japanese beverage makers are increasingly producing products that look like water but taste like other drinks, betting that consumers want the taste of Coke or beer in a healthier-looking clear liquid.
Coca-Cola is to buy the Costa Coffee chain from UK leisure group Whitbread, in a £3.9bn ($5,1bn) deal that sets up the world’s biggest beverage maker to take on Starbucks, Nestlé and JAB Holdings in the global battle for coffee sales.
The UK [and SA] sugar tax, which came into force in April 2018, has profoundly changed the outlook of the beverage industry. Some say that a wave of legislation is being driven by millennial concerns.
While the craft and specialty cider market in South Africa is still relatively untapped, several vendors are trying to change the game for cider lovers, the latest being De Grendel with the winery’s new Three Spades Cider.
The third edition of food & drink technology Africa (fdt Africa) takes place from September 4 to 6, 2018. This is arguably the most important expo for the Southern African F&B market covering the entire process chain – from raw materials to processing, bottling, packaging and logistics.
SodaStream has built a modern blended retail model that goes beyond traditional outlets and ecommerce.
PepsiCo is branching out into new territory with the $3.2bn purchase of SodaStream, the Israeli maker of home fizzy drink dispensers, just weeks after the US consumer group announced that its chief executive, Indra Nooyi, would step down this year.
Tesco has become the first Big 4 UK supermarkets to offer customers water in aluminium cans in a bid to provide an environmentally-friendly alternative to plastic water bottles.Â
Big Beer is showing keen interest in cannabis, with latest news being Heineken's launch of Hi-Fi Hops, from California beer brand Lagunitas, and which is made with marijuana instead of alcohol.
Millennials are creating a mounting crisis for some of the most iconic beer brands in America.
PepsiCo has announced that respected CEO, Indra Nooyi, will step down after 12 years leading the food and beverage company. She will remain chairman until early 2019.
Here's an interesting take on hangover-free wine: produce it so that it creates all of the pleasures but none of the after affects associated with imbibing alcohol... and it's dead-on trend with five key market-defining characteristics: authentic, natural, clean label, healthy, low sugar.
Recent figures released by the European Federation of Bottled Waters (EFBW) show that the global market for packaged water has grown at a faster rate than soft drinks, and will continue to do so until 2022. SA's industry is likely to follow suit says SANBWA, the SA National Bottled Water Association.