Savanna, Distell's popular premium cider with a taste for the unexpected, has 'gone loco' with the launch of a bold new special release variant, combining the crisp taste of Savanna Dry with fresh tequila flavour in a market first for South Africa.
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The reinvention of rosé continues apace, with superior grapes, innovative production methods and sustainable sourcing all bidding to capture consumer imagination in an increasingly crowded and fashionable category. The message from the market’s new releases is clear: pink is premium, but the rosé category’s rebrand...
Stellenbosch-based liquor conglomerate Distell might be best known for its wine and brandy brands – but the company’s spirited growth in the last decade-and-a-half has been underpinned by incredible successes in the cider segment.
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That Starbucks would finally be coming to SA made headlines last July - now comes news that the first two stores will open in April at Rosebank and the much-anticipated new Mall of Africa in Midrand.
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The Beverage Association of South Africa says a move by government to curb obesity through a new sugar tax is ‘disappointing’ and will most likely fail.
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Monster Beverage has agreed to purchase its primary flavour ingredients supplier, American Fruits & Flavors, for $690-million.
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Among the sins that the government taxes, South Africans can now include sugar along with the likes of alcohol and tobacco.
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There are food-bev companies where the directors and shareholders still believe that their business teams must look for new “high volume opportunities”. Believe no more, asserts UK trends thinktank on food and health, New Nutrition Business.
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UK newspaper, The Telegraph, has released its 2016 list of the best coffee shops in the world, with South Africa’s very own steampunk-themed Truth Coffee Roasting in Cape Town sitting proudly in the number-one spot.
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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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