12 Feb Diageo’s Tanqueray & Tonic RTD
Diageo has launched its first pre-mixed gin & tonic featuring the Tanqueray brand. The company says that Tanqueray & Tonic has rolled out in popular RTD market, Australia.
12 Feb US: PepsiCo chases sparkling water growth with new ‘bubly’ brand
Move over cola wars. It’s time for the sparkling water battles. PepsiCo is introducing a line of sparkling water called 'bubly' that will take on the uber-trendy fast-track brand, LaCroix, and likely a whole lot of new competitors in this space.
12 Feb Three reasons why scientific advice on drugs is ignored
LSD is far safer than alcohol or tobacco, so why don't drug laws reflect it?
08 Feb Absolut launches hilarious and risque transparency video
Absolut, a brand of Paris-based Pernod Ricard, launched a new film titled “The Vodka with Nothing to Hide” to prove how transparent things are in Åhus, Sweden, and features employees totally in the nude.
08 Feb The Future 100 : Trends and change to watch in 2018
JWT's Innovation Group has again published its always fabulous report, The Future 100 2018, an annual snapshot of the year ahead and the most compelling trends to keep on the radar. Food and drink make up a sizeable part of its cutting-edge insights.
02 Feb Cape Town’s Day Zero: SA’s bottled water industry gears up to help
For Capetonians there is only one topic of conversation: water. The nightmare scenario of Day Zero, when the municipal taps are turned off in April, is ever more likely. SA's bottled water industry is rising to the crisis, reports SANBWA.
02 Feb Soy milk the ‘One Clear Winner’ of plant-based milks: McGill study
A new study from McGill University, Montreal, has looked at the four most-commonly consumed types of milk beverages from plant sources around the world – almond milk, soy milk, rice milk and coconut milk – and compared their nutritional values with those of cow's milk. After cow's milk, which is still the most nutritious, soy milk comes out a clear winner.
01 Feb US: Diet Coke’s surprising new TV ad say ‘life is short’ so you may as well drink it
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.
01 Feb Coca-Cola in Cape Town readies for Day Zero
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.
31 Jan Can Arctic Coke help invigorate Coca-Cola’s soda sales?
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.....
30 Jan Coffee meets soda: Keurig and Dr Pepper Snapple merge to create beverage behemoth
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.
30 Jan UK: Taking plastic out of tea bags
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”.
22 Jan SAB’s Cape Town brewery to bottle spring water as Day Zero looms
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.
21 Jan Five SA wine trends to watch for in 2018
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?
21 Jan Guinness launches a new ‘full flavoured’ non-alcoholic beer
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.
21 Jan ‘No to plastic straws’ movement takes off in SA
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.
21 Jan US: Non-dairy milk sales grow 61% over the last five years
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.
20 Jan Shoppers pay $37 for ‘raw’ water as natural food movement grows
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.
20 Jan Borrago launches with new alcohol-free botanical spirit
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.
16 Jan BOS powers ahead with Rhodes Food Group partnership
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.