The way at-home soda brewers are ratcheting up their offers, you'd never guess "The Soda Industry is Dying," as NASDAQ declared recently on the heels of a report that carbonated-soft-drink sales were down in 2014 for the 10th year in a row. Instead, the makers...
Former rugby Springbok Guy Kebble - brother of the infamous Brett - is hoping to clean up in the US with a business based on purity. Kebble runs liquid purification company SurePure, which is listed on the New York exchange OTC Markets which in turn...
Europeans have Nespresso, Americans have Keurig, accompanied by its ubiquitous K-Cups and produced by Keurig Green Mountain, which grew out of the company that was founded on one John Sylvan’s invention in 1990. Sylvan has recently expressed regret over ever devising the system...
For the world’s largest beverage company, the question is no longer whether or not it needs to reinvent itself to thrive but whether or not it can, and if it can, then how?
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It started as a one-man experiment, and evolved into something of a social media joke - but Soylent, the Los Angeles start-up that makes a powdery beverage as a meal replacement with a sweeping nutritional composition, recently raised $20-million in additional venture capital, and claims...
Pepsi has reclaimed its positioning as the No 2 soda in the United States, five years after losing that spot to Diet Coke.
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Nutritional labelling on alcoholic drinks could become the norm after four of the world's biggest brewers backed plans to add these to their products in Europe — and the US potentially is their next stop. It's already happening in SA (pictured right on SAB's Castle...
Castle Lite’s re-sealable Platinum Pack is back by popular demand with a national launch for a limited period. The distinctive 470ml aluminum bottle with its progressive design and wide-mouth re-sealable lid, offers consumers the ultimate in “cold blast refreshment”.
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Modern winemakers may have erred when they switched to producing high alcohol wines. According to a new paper, from Spanish neuroscientists Ram Frost and colleagues, a low alcohol content wine actually produces more brain activity in 'taste processing' areas than more alcoholic varieties do.
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Britons used to the traditional black pint of Guinness, can now enjoy a new addition to the Guinness family - and it's golden.
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KFC has unveiled a prototype edible coffee cup. While still under development, plans are in place to introduce it at a number of UK stores later this year.
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A first in the company's 97-year history, extraordinarily, KWV has launched its first-ever consumer trademark brand campaign, 'Finish Great', that aims to communicate the company's heritage and product innovation across spirits and wines since 1918. The emotive integrated campaign kicks off today with the flighting...
With its new range of “Liquid Food & Beverage Enhancers”, Döhler is offering alternatives to "end monotony in water, tea, coffee and beer", and offering beverage marketers the means to leverage a trend, and whole new drinks category, in fact, that took the US by...
There's been much media coverage given the recent US government approval of "powdered alcohol" drinks – Palcohol – as it is branded. If you paid attention in chemistry class, you might feel something sounds scientifically and chemically amiss.
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Nederburg is telling it like it is in a series of short little videos that lets consumers into a behind-the-scenes look at what actually goes on at harvest time. Housed on Nederburg's Youtube channel, www.youtube.com/user/NederburgWine, it shows the sweat, the tears, the drama, and...
UHT milk sales by volume garnered 53% of market share in 2013, outstripping demand for chilled milk for the first time in South Africa, a growing popularity that can be attributed to numerous factors, reports Penny Ntuli, communications director for Tetra Pak South Africa.
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Officials in the US have sparked controversy by approving a powdered alcohol that can be mixed into drinks, snorted or even sprinkled onto food.
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UK NGO, Action on Sugar, has called for energy drinks to children to be banned after finding that they contain up to 20 teaspoons of sugar, and that they are "fuelling the obesity epidemic". [Click pic to enlarge]
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Consuming alcohol (equivalent to about a glass of wine) can make the drinker appear more attractive than when sober, according to new research from the University of Bristol. However, the effect disappears when more is consumed.
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SodaStream International, the global manufacturer and distributor of sparkling water makers, claims it is now the world leader in total volume consumption of sparkling water.
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