11 Jan Six ways wine will change in 2017
If there are two words for wine in 2017, they’re experimentation and exploration...
11 Jan Fantastic new resource for SA food-drink industrialists of every ilk
It's time to be introduced to Food Focus, www.foodfocus.co.za, which, dear reader, is a place to visit and bookmark if you are involved in any way in producing or marketing food and drinks in South Africa, or servicing those industries.
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10 Jan The science of better-tasting milk
A new study finds that fluorescent light can degrade the flavour of milk in supermarkets—and offers some solutions.
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10 Jan PepsiCo to launch premium water brand LIFEWTR
This year PepsiCo will launch a premium-priced bottled water called LIFEWTR, adding a new brand to the company's portfolio that plays to strengthening consumer interest in healthier beverages.
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09 Jan AB InBev and Keurig teaming up to build an at-home alcohol beverage maker
Brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev and coffee purveyor Keurig Green Mountain have formed a joint venture to develop an in-home system that would focus on beer, cocktails and other alcoholic beverages.
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09 Jan Firmenich names cucumber as its ‘Flavour of the Year’
Firmenich has announced cucumber as the 2017 “Flavour of the Year” based on its growing appeal - demand for refreshing, clean, and healthy food and beverages is driving cucumber’s surge in popularity.
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08 Jan Behold, the world’s first flat wine bottle
Though different wine packages have their pros and cons, few of them can say they are as uniquely functional as a bottle developed by London’s Garcon Wines – a company which has unveiled a flat plastic wine bottle specially designed to slip through a mail...
08 Dec Coca-Cola explains the sour side of a sugary tax on SSBs
A tax on sugar-laden beverages may jeopardise Coca-Cola's investment plans in South Africa. However, there is an alternative to the sugary tax, says head of communications Zipporah Maubane.
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08 Dec How to scale up an artisanal food or drink business
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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06 Dec More plastic bottles recycled in SA than thrown away
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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01 Dec Top technology and ingredient winners from the 2016 World Beverage Innovation Awards
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...
01 Dec Ten Key Trends in Food, Nutrition and Health 2017
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...
30 Nov UK pop idol’s beverage hits the mark
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...
30 Nov Wine and Olive Oil Suppliers Expo heads for Cape Town in 2017
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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29 Nov Distell taps into to bubblies’ popularity with new upmarket range
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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23 Nov Soylent says this novel ingredient caused all those “gastrointestinal issues”
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...
23 Nov Inside the new SAB: How the good times ended for SABMiller
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...
23 Nov PepsiCo, Dr Pepper Snapple continue to diversify beyond soda
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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23 Nov New decanter concept takes a bottoms-up approach to wine freshness
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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23 Nov South Africa’s famed rooibos industry: insights into its many controversies
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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