After years of administrative delays, PepsiCo, the world’s second-largest food and beverage company by revenue, is finally building a $30m bottling plant in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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SA’s new sugar tax could add 20% to the price of a Coca-Cola, but would exempt Liquifruit and other 100% fruit juices, along with unsweetened milk and bottled water.
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The place for sports supplements within the current South African legislative framework is currently in discussion. Within this context, University of Pretoria researchers have found that muscle-building shakes don’t always have as much protein as they claim to.
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Distill Ventures, the Diageo-backed and funded accelerator programme for entrepreneurs launching and scaling innovative drinks brands, has invested in a brand of non-alcoholic distilled spirits for the first time.
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Danone has agreed to buy organic foods producer WhiteWave Foods, producer of organic and plant-based milks, for about $10-billion, boosting the world's largest yogurt maker's presence in the US.
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Mérieux NutriSciences (formerly known as Swift Silliker) has expanded its SA footprint with acquisition of Lactolab, a leading analytical laboratory serving dairy and dairy-related industries.
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The African Coca-Cola operation unbundled from SABMiller started operating today.
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"Megabrew" has overcome a major obstacle - AB Inbev's R1,5tn takeover of FTSE 100 rival SABMiller has won the approval of South Africa’s competition authorities, with conditions.
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Talk to long-serving executives at SAB and they’ll tell you the "dirtiest trick" played in the battle between Heineken and SAB was the manner in which Heineken "stole" Amstel from them in 2007. Talk to long-serving South African beer drinkers and they might tell you...
Scientists and winemakers are now recognising that part of what makes a wine-growing region special may be its resident microbes.
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How did an up-tight, state-run liquor monopoly in Sweden — a country which restricts booze ads to matchboxes — once own one of the hippest, most successful spirits brands in the world? And how did the Swedes pull this off with Russia's national drink?
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A recent article in The Guardian said coffee stunting kids' growth is just a myth promoted by 19th-century manufacturers of a coffee substitute. So does this mean the long-thought wisdom that coffee is bad for kids is a lie?
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Matola Gare, on the outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique, is now home to a new $130-million world-class bottling plant - the latest milestone in a 10-year, $17-billion investment plan by the Coca-Cola system in Africa.
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PepsiCo spent two years surveying consumers, conducting taste tests, and tinkering with soft drink recipes in order to fix Diet Pepsi, only to find it had completely misread what its customers wanted.
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Namibia Breweries has updated the look of Windhoek Lager to revitalise the brand.
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Two in five US consumers are replacing their breakfast with nutritional and performance drinks, finds a new Mintel study.
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Cow's milk is routinely pasteurised and homogenised to make it safe and consistent. Believing this eliminates much of its goodness and flavour, as well as trying to find some market differentiation, Australian outfit, Made by Cow, has invested in a new cold press method that...
Philly, America's fifth-largest city, is the biggest US city to slap a tax on sweet drinks, after a bitter battle...
The humble carrot has celebrity status at Greenway Farms where man and machine work in fine-tuned harmony and where the owners are embarking on a bold new high-tech adventure in juicing.
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Coffee does not cause cancer, says the WHO, but hot drinks might...