A Swiss company, Climeworks, is not the first company to figure out how to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. It may become the first to make money from it at an industrial scale, including putting it in soft drinks.
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Jo'burg drinks development consultancy, Slo-Jo, works with most of SA's top restaurant chains in keeping their drinks menus fresh and appetising. Trend watching is key in its business - and here is Slo-Jo's take on taste trends for 2016, mainly in the context for SA's...
A Spanish company has come up with an ingenious option to market and merchandise raw, organic coconut water – currently the super-healthy darling of the beverage world – in its own natural container. And it's just been awarded a major global innovation award.
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A bottle of South African wine fetched R1.3 million ($82K) at the recent AfrAsia Bank Cape Wine auction as a 42 percent jump in prices saw total proceeds from the sale double from two years earlier.
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Japanese brewer Asahi has agreed to buy SABMiller’s Peroni and Grolsch beer brands for over 400bn yen (€2.55bn - £2.3bn), a sale aimed at easing antitrust approval for AB InBev’s $100bn-plus takeover of SABMiller, agreed last year.
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The co-founder of the UK's famous Innocent drinks, Richard Reed, believes the importance of packaging in products can not be underplayed and argues it is often more important than the product itself.
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Every year, Fast Company, the trend-setting/following magazine and website, publishes an annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. There is one interesting beverage-related company on the 2016 role of honour.
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Livers and alcohol do not get on well together. That is well known. But precisely how alcohol destroys the liver of someone who drinks too much has been a mystery. New research is pointing to the role of gut bacteria.
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Cold-press juices are all the rage in many upper foodie, health, gym echelons around the world. But the science is out on if paying top dollar for such beverages is worth it...
The beverage business is undergoing radical change. New Nutrition Business forecast last year that “juice and smoothies are going to follow colas and other carbonates onto the path of a long slow decline”. And already it’s clear that if you follow its suggestion that “the...
Meet Gladys Mawoneke, MD of beverage maker Bumi Hills Group, bottler and manufacturer of the non-alcohol malt drink Breva.
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Dandelion coffee is the "it" drink, so if you were just about to hop on the matcha bandwagon — so 2015 — don’t bother.
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UK packaging and print consultancy, SaucePM, has launched RECANIZE, an innovatively-shaped drinks can packaging concept with a global patent.
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Mexicans consume more carbonated drinks per person than any other nation, and the country has one of the world's highest rates of childhood obesity. Two years ago the government introduced a tax on sugary drinks - but is it working?
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As SA’s wine producers face up to the devastating drought, their association, VinPro, has urged them to find new ways of turning a profit, in order to stay in business.
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Coca-Cola Great Britain has reformulated the recipe of Coca-Cola Life so that it contains 45% less sugar and calories than full-sugar alternatives.
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Of course, if you're an uninitiated teenager, any amount of alcohol can go straight to your head. But, decades later, if bubbly wine still seems to hit faster than, say, beer, it turns out there's a reason.
It's kinda nice when baristas draw little things like hearts or leaves in the foam on your cappuccino. There's a chance, however, that those designs may be going the way of cave paintings.
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In a sector dominated by PET and glass to a much lesser extent, research company Canadean reports that metals cans have the highest growth by volume out of all packaging formats in the packaged water category, with the success of flavoured sparkling water driving growth...
Euromonitor recently released new data for soft drinks and the results show 2015 as the slowest year for global carbonates growth in all of its historic data set. Hear more here...