SABMiller Namibia's brewery in Okahandja was officially opened today. Doing the honours was Immanuel Ngatjizeko, Namibian minister of industrialisation, trade and SME development, on behalf of Dr Nickey Iyambo, vice president of Namibia.
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A relatively unknown small local enterprise, Breva Beverages Co, has launched an alcohol-free malt beverage, BREVA, and claims it's the first South African company to manufacture and bottle a malt beverage. [Don't think so - Soda King has been doing it for some...
Move over cold-brew coffee - the next new thing in coffee is nitrogen-infusion and it's making an on-tap mark in the trendy coffee shops of America, arguably doing for cold-brew coffee what craft has done for beer.
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Starbucks is jumping into the surging coffee market in South Africa and will open shop here in mid 2016.
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As has been widely anticipated, PepsiCo has announced the appointment of SoftBev, the national soft drinks company, as its sole licensed bottler in South Africa, Lesotho and Swazilandand with distribution rights in Botswana and Namibia.
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With rising health awareness and concern about binge drinking driving sales of low and non-ABV (alcohol by volume) beers among consumers, it seems counter-intuitive that innovation in strongly alcoholic beers should be rising...
Pyrotec PackMark offer affordable labelling solutions to suit a wide variety of manufacturers, including SMMEs with small production runs. New to its inventory is a self-adhesive labelling device.
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Mageu, the 'Red Bull of Africa" and one of the oldest beverages in Southern Africa, had a decline in volume in 2014 for the first time in over five years, reports BMI Research.
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In the Middle East, Coca-Cola's is looking to promote a world without labels and prejudices by starting with its iconic can and ditching its own logo during the Ramadan period. Of course, the label is still red and has the white swirly bit so...
Cheers to Cape Town for being one of the cheapest places in the world in which to share a beer. [Surely the whole of SA? Ed]
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Unlike the professional athletes with which it's most identified, American sports drink leader, Gatorade, at age 50 is still going strong and showing no signs of retiring.
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Recent research has reignited concerns that exposure to chemicals from plastics might be to blame for low sperm counts in young men. I share the concerns about the high prevalence of low sperm counts (one in six young men), and my research...
The craft beer revolution isn’t showing any signs of slowing down with 2014 proving another great year for brewers across the United States.
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Whether it's a desire for an improved diet or a need to avoid disease spread by contaminated water sources, the bottled water industry is reaping the rewards worldwide with global consumption expected to overtake carbonated beverage consumption for the first time this year.
...Consumers worldwide remain overwhelmingly positive about the goodness of milk, understand its nutritional value, but feel variety and convenience are not keeping pace with modern lifestyles and expectations, is a key finding of Tetra Pak's eighth Dairy Index report published June 17.
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Millennials are steering away from soda, and PepsiCo is investing in healthier options to keep up with them. PepsiCo recently announced a new line of carbonated craft beverages called "Stubborn Soda."
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Japan's famous matcha tea powder is in big fashion in America. You can grab a matcha latte at Starbucks. Whole Foods stocks the green tea powder on its shelves. Or now with the summer weather, maybe you'll see a Matcha Green Tea Blast smoothie from...
PepsiCo has a very successful snacks business in South Africa, but its core drink has not gone down as well in the battle for market supremacy. [This is another in a series of articles on the African and South African soda markets published recently by...
Clover has got the green light from the competition authorities to acquire the fresh dairy business of Nkunzi Milkyway, allowing SA’s biggest dairy distributor to manufacture and pack Ayrshire organic milk and dairy products, including lactose-free yoghurt, for Woolworths. The approval was made in late...
For Coca-Cola, Africa was open for business a long time ago. The progress and potential of its economies now gives it more reason to raise a glass. [This is one in a series of articles on the African and South African soda markets published recently...