Coca-Cola is calling on the public via the crowdsourcing platform HeroX to develop a natural, low-to-no-calorie sweetener, but the compound must not contain, or be derived from, stevia or monk fruit.
South Africa's leading cold-drink manufacturer is pulling its sugary soft drinks out of school tuck shops, but is still offering kids a sweet deal.
The proposed tax on sugary drinks is likely to go ahead later this year, following negotiations between government, labour and industry at the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac).
As the lines between food and medicine become more blurred, it’s no wonder we’re looking towards food and drink for its restorative benefits. If we can eat or drink something delicious rather than pop a pill – bonus. What’s next on the drinks menu for body-aware consumers?
Pieter “Mr Bubbles” Ferreira has been synonymous with sparkling wine for almost three decades after joining Graham Beck in 1990 to what has become one of South Africa’s prestige sparkling wine producers.
Beer famously includes just four ingredients – grain, hops, yeast and water – but in recent years, a fifth ingredient has emerged: fruit. This trend update from Mintel....
As has been anticipated for some time, Coca-Cola in the US has announced that it would stop selling Coke Zero in the US in August, replacing it with a beverage with a different recipe, design, and name: Coca-Cola Zero Sugar.
Organic food has a reputation for being healthier than conventional, and there's some evidence for that. But when it comes to organic wine, the health benefits are much less clear, experts say. And it won't help you avoid a hangover.
At a time when carbonates sales are slumping in many markets worldwide, ginger ale volumes are on the increase. Euromonitor International explains why...
The extreme drought in the Western Cape has, until now, not had a major effect on the wine industry, but adequate rainfall is needed this winter for good vine performance and crop yields for the coming season, wine producer body VinPro says.
Alternative packaging formats are increasingly being used in Europe and the US to drive wine sales in the face of fierce competition - and here's news of an innovative single-serve pouch.
AB-InBev subsidiary, SAB is investing R2.8-billion into brewery expansions, including two new packaging lines for returnable glass bottles, at its Alrode and Rosslyn breweries, in Gauteng.
On the shop floor the battle of the shelf wars has intensified, as big beverage companies move to entrench their position by squeezing out smaller competitors from prime display space.
Alcohol abuse is rising and, in many countries, young female drinkers are driving that growth. Here's a provocative opinion piece by Kiri Rupiah, the social media editor of the Mail & Guardian.
A leading British distiller believes drinking gin and vodka with soda water and bitters will be the next big trend, as health conscious millennials search for sugar-free tonic water alternatives.
Aperol, an Italian apertivo with an alcohol by volume of just 11%, has always been popular in its native country. Thanks to strategic marketing and consumers' new-found love of cocktails, it's emerging as brand on a global growth trajectory.
Everybody loved the French paradox. It was a term coined in 1980 by French scientists in their paper on heart disease and fat intake. It refers to the fact that, despite consuming a diet high in saturated fat, French people have relatively low levels of coronary heart disease, especially when compared with people in Britain.
Leading Australian supermarket, Woolworths, has made the shock announcement that it won’t be stocking Coca-Cola’s new No Sugar variant.
SodaStream International, which makes machines to carbonate tap water at home, is looking to acquire companies and beef up marketing in key countries to keep its turnaround going.
The Appletiser plant in Elgin is ready to almost double its annual production by October, following its merger last year of the non-alcoholic ready-to-drink bottling operations of the Coca-Cola Company, SABMiller and Gutsche Family Investments to form Coca Cola Beverages SA (CCBSA).