New-look Diet Coke’s new commercial doesn’t shy away from the health concerns over the artificially-sweetened soda, part of an expensive new campaign that seeks to inject the struggling soda with a youthful, blunt-talking vibe.
With the impending likelihood of Day Zero in April, Coca-Cola Peninsula Beverages has issued a report on its actions to help augment water supplies to Cape Town, as well as how its mitigating the water crisis on its own operations.
With Coca-Cola facing a market where more people are abandoning soda in favour of healthier beverages, the 132-year old beverage maker has looked for novel ways to make its iconic drinks more appealing to the fickle consumer. NASA scientists have delivered one new possibility.....
JAB Holding Co’s audacious effort to build a food-and-beverage empire, which already includes Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and Caribou Coffee, has taken a surprise turn into soft drinks.
British supermarket, The Co-op, has unveiled a fully biodegradable paper tea bag, which it says “could save nine tonnes of plastic every year from being dumped into household rubbish and compost collections”.
After 200 years of making beer, Newlands Brewery in Cape Town is going into the water business, one of many corporates who will be asked to help with the city's impending catastrophic Day Zero or municipal water shut-down come April.
The South African wine industry is experiencing one of its most exciting - and challenging - phases in history. So, what are some of the emerging trends shaping it in 2018?
Guinness is the latest brand to bolster its teetotal drinks offering after launching a new non-alcoholic beer it claims doesn’t compromise on flavour.
The Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town is calling on all South Africans to put down their drinking straws because we are facing a "catastrawphe", and something must be done to save our seas.
As the popularity of plant-based nutrition grows, it seems non-dairy milk* is increasingly finding its place in Americans’ refrigerators. New research from Mintel reveals that non-dairy milk sales have grown by an impressive 61% since 2012, and reached an estimated $2.11-billion in 2017.
Expanding consumer interest in "raw" water is being met by thriving upstarts who either deliver unfiltered, untreated, unsterilised water or set up a home water collection system, according to The New York Times.
Non-alcoholic spirit brand, Borrago, has launched in the UK with a beverage free of sugar and calories that’s designed to be used in the same way as gin or vodka.
BOS Brands, whose range of iconic rooibos ice teas has revolutionised the South African ice tea market since launching in 2010, is set for further growth after signing a sales and distribution agreement with Rhodes Food Group (RFG), one of Southern Africa’s biggest food producing and distribution companies.
When Diet Coke debuted in 1982, it was aimed at a maturing baby boomer generation seeking a substitute for the sugar-filled sodas of their youth. Now, as similarly sugar-averse millennials take the reins as the country’s top consumer cohort, Diet Coke is seeking to connect with the new generation via its largest redesign effort to date.
The idea that sugar could be a fundamental cause of the global obesity and diabetes epidemics, with deleterious effects on the human body that go beyond just empty calories, should be considered seriously again, argues journalist and author Gary Taubes in the January 2018 editon of The British Medical Journal.
After cigarettes, alcohol is perhaps the most common carcinogen that humans voluntarily expose themselves to. How this simple substance promotes cancer, though, has not been clear. But this latest study, using genetically modified mice, sheds some light on the possible mechanism.
Firmenich, the world’s largest privately-owned company in the fragrance and flavour business, is acquiring Flavourome, its long-time agent in South Africa. No value to the deal has been mentioned.
If a chemist were to design the world’s most popular recreational drug from scratch, alcohol would be a pretty terrible choice. Now British scientists are working to create a synthetic alcohol that gets you properly pickled and doesn't make you feel poisoned.
One in seven adults in SA admit to being binge-drinkers‚ but researchers say the problem is likely to be much worse as people are inherently coy on reporting their alcohol consumption.
With consumers shifting towards healthier beverages and governments introducing sugary drink taxes, brands are innovating their packaging to achieve standout on shelf. In particular can designs are being catered for individual markets, demographics and tastes.