Tetra Pak Southern Africa has won five awards in the FTASA Flexographic Print Excellence Awards 2015, including two Gold, two Silver, and one Bronze, at the ceremony that took place on October 20, 2015.
...
Savanna Premium Cider is standing tall in a brand new 440ml can, of striking design, bringing its legions of fans more value and convenience.
...
Stellenbosch-based Chill Beverages International has given its Country Club brand of sparkling classic mixes a stylish makeover in time for summer.
...
DRINKStuff SA was at Anuga 2015, the massive biennial global food-drinks gathering in Cologne in mid October. Editor, Brenda Neall, uncovered much beverage inspiration...
Keurig Green Mountain is close to pulling the trigger on its new soda maker that, offering freedom and variety, is intended to revolutionise cold beverages across America.
...
South Africa’s wine industry is schizophrenic. On the one hand international wine critics are raving about the country, on the other hand the average UK selling price of a bottle of South African wine is still about £4.25, well off the £10.00 plus mark of...
A monster merger is just one step...
The battle lasted one tumultuous month. In September SABMiller, the world’s second-largest brewer, said it was the target of a takeover by its bigger rival, AB InBev. There followed a volley of bids, skirmishes in the press and tense private talks...
Mintel is first past the post with a trends outlook for 2016...
Dairy and beverage group, Clover, has acquired 'retro' South African drinks brand, Frankie’s Olde Soft Drinks, for an undisclosed sum.
...
What a tonic! Two days at the vibrant Cape Wine 2015 expo, South Africa's triennial wine showcase to the world, crammed with eager international buyers, traders and media, quickly set aside the fog of gloom that sits heavy on many a South African psyche...
Camille Delebecque is founder and CEO of Afineur, a Franco-American startup, who raised more than $50,000 on Kickstarter to produce a coffee with a unique flavour created through controlled fermentation; in effect, to produce Indonesia's famed civet-poop coffee, kopi luwak, without the civet and all the...
Unilever has launched a single-serve Lipton tea machine to help reinvigorate the struggling brand and challenge Nestlé, which has already spent five years pushing a similar Nespresso-like device for tea.
...
Food and drink consumers have never known such an abundance of choice, and food has probably never been so central to popular culture — yet its future has rarely seemed so controversial. The newest report from the Innovation Group, J Walter Thompson's in-house creative think...
In 1997 South Africa boasted two craft brewers - and now there are more than 150, many shipping their products around the country. There are even online services where you can order home delivery of craft beer and it is becoming commonplace to...
A tie-up between SAB Miller and ABInbev the two biggest global beer producers, a thumping $250bn merger idea, has been rumoured so often there is bound to be some scepticism. But this time, just maybe, it might just happen.
...
With up to 10-million South Africans either suffering from type 2 diabetes or in the pre-diabetic stage, a wholly preventable epidemic is about to swamp our already strained public healthcare system. Kevin bloom spent a day at the diabetes clinic of a major public hospital,...
Brannas Draught captured the local NPD imagination with its launch of the first brandy and cola served as a draught in February this year. The roaring success of the start-up, serving SA's archetypal favourite tipple, has lead to a partnership with premium brandy producer KWV.
...
Last year Dow Packaging launched the innovative flexible packaging alternative to rigid bottles, PacXpert, at the giant Interpack expo in Dusseldorf. It's now coming to South Africa via a licensing agreement signed with Astrapak who believes it could be a a big new hit for...
Diageo is trialling an alcohol-free variant of its Guinness stout in Indonesia, in a move designed to get round the country's new restrictions on the sale of alcohol.
...