The past decade has seen an explosion in start-up businesses specialising in food and drink. Here's some cogent advice and insights from Jeremy Torz, co-founder, Union Hand-Roasted Coffee in the UK, on growing such endeavours the right way.
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SA can be proud of its PET bottle recycling efforts - in 2015, 52% of PET plastic bottles were collected for recycling in South Africa, reports PETCO.
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This year, the World Beverage Innovation Awards’ technology, ingredients and processing categories saw a great many new innovations in beverage manufacturing and throughout the supply chain. Here's a look at the winner and finalists...
When a giant food company invests $32-million in a startup focusing on personalized nutrition – as Campbell’s recently has – then you know that “personalization” has reached its tipping point. This is a key trend identified in New Nutrition Business' annual report, 10...
Winning the accolade, 'Best New Beverage Concept' at World Beverage Innovation Awards 2016 earlier this year, was Cuppanut, a new brand of coconut teas. Here's the story behind the product...
Wine and olive oil production will be new additions to the acclaimed Propak Cape exhibition in October next year, with organisers, Specialised Exhibitions Montgomery, announcing the launch of the co-located Wine and Olive Oil Suppliers Expo.
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Distell's House of JC Le Roux, South Africa’s leading sparkling wine producer, has added an exciting new range of high quality bubblies to the JC Le Roux family to appeal to those who enjoy a drier, more sophisticated taste.
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Soylent is Silicon Valley's bluntest and blandest attempt to "disrupt the food industry", on the premise that "food really is made of chemicals; it is reducible, we can build it back up; we can change it, and we can make it better". It...
The SA Breweries you knew and loved, which listed on the JSE back in 1897, is no more. After Anheuser-Busch InBev’s $109bn takeover last month, apprehension is stalking the corridors of the SA beer icon. But for new boss Carlos Brito, the numbers will trump...
Two fast-track, better-for-you beverage upstarts in America did well this week. Bai and KeVita are, respectively, to be fully acquired by benefactors, Dr Pepple Snapper and PepsiCo.
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When trying to keep wine fresh after being opened, it's important to limit the wine's exposure to oxygen left inside the bottle.
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There are political, environmental, commercial and social controversies associated with that most delectable of South African beverages: rooibos tea. The debate enfolds both the plant itself and the traditional use and knowledge that fostered the growth of this lucrative industry.
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Are South Africans the 8th highest sugar consumers in the world? Africa Check investigated...
In a curious way, whisky has largely tracked the same curve as every segment of the South African liquor business, writes Michael Fridjhon...
The definition of innovation is often synonymous with such words as revolution, transformation and breakthrough. At the Coca-Cola. the definition has less to do with such descriptors and more to do with meeting the needs of consumers, says its North America chief.
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Growing calls for transparency throughout the supply chain are taking clean and clear label to a new and supreme level. This comes as the inherent benefits of plant-based products are being active marketed to a more health conscious consumers. “Clean Supreme” and “Disruptive Green” lead...
New to SA's chiller shelves is DanUp, an new beverage that combines yoghurt with multiple grains.
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In answer to this question, said Sara Haas, a dietitian speaking on behalf of the US Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: “It varies based on the company. I encourage people to be label readers.”
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Bad news for the US soda industry...
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