KWV has joined the gin craze, launching its own super-premium London dry boutique gin. Dubbed, Cruxland, it is made from the high quality 100% grape spirits, infused with nine exotic botanicals, including rare Kalahari N'abbas (truffles).
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The world may be getting warmer, but it is not getting much wetter. It quaffed 249-billion litres of alcoholic drinks in 2014, a modest increase of one billion over the preceding year. The Economist takes a look at the changing geography of alcoholic drinks.
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Leading British supermarket retailer, Tesco, has announced that it is to remove all lunch box-sized drinks that contain added sugar from its shelves from September. The decision has sparked fury among consumers, but it could mark the start of far reaching industry-wide changes.
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New research, presented recently at the Cancer Association of South Africa's 'Research in Action Conference', showed that rooibos and honeybush both have anti-cancer properties that may be useful in the treatment of prostate and breast cancer.
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British spirits giant, Diageo, has announced it is restructuring its South African and Namibian ventures to go it alone in the two countries.
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The backlash against the story of the emerging middle class in Africa has begun.
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Carlsberg has launched a new Beer Beauty line, a line of male grooming products made from real Carlsberg beer. It is the latest in a series of recent innovations, including Burger King’s burger-scented perfume and Lidl’s “Eau de Grill”,...
Britain's doctors are calling for the government to impose a 20% tax on sugar-sweetened drinks to pay for subsidies on fruit and vegetables in an effort to slow the obesity epidemic.
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The news that Starbucks will be entering South Africa is positive - after all the Starbucks brand is known to be a quality coffee brand. Will the global brand be able to achieve sustainable success locally?
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Ongoing consumer concern about sugar consumption means there's a growing taste for non-sweet alternatives, says Mintel.
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SABMiller Namibia's brewery in Okahandja was officially opened today. Doing the honours was Immanuel Ngatjizeko, Namibian minister of industrialisation, trade and SME development, on behalf of Dr Nickey Iyambo, vice president of Namibia.
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A relatively unknown small local enterprise, Breva Beverages Co, has launched an alcohol-free malt beverage, BREVA, and claims it's the first South African company to manufacture and bottle a malt beverage. [Don't think so - Soda King has been doing it for some...
Move over cold-brew coffee - the next new thing in coffee is nitrogen-infusion and it's making an on-tap mark in the trendy coffee shops of America, arguably doing for cold-brew coffee what craft has done for beer.
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Starbucks is jumping into the surging coffee market in South Africa and will open shop here in mid 2016.
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As has been widely anticipated, PepsiCo has announced the appointment of SoftBev, the national soft drinks company, as its sole licensed bottler in South Africa, Lesotho and Swazilandand with distribution rights in Botswana and Namibia.
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With rising health awareness and concern about binge drinking driving sales of low and non-ABV (alcohol by volume) beers among consumers, it seems counter-intuitive that innovation in strongly alcoholic beers should be rising...
Pyrotec PackMark offer affordable labelling solutions to suit a wide variety of manufacturers, including SMMEs with small production runs. New to its inventory is a self-adhesive labelling device.
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Mageu, the 'Red Bull of Africa" and one of the oldest beverages in Southern Africa, had a decline in volume in 2014 for the first time in over five years, reports BMI Research.
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In the Middle East, Coca-Cola's is looking to promote a world without labels and prejudices by starting with its iconic can and ditching its own logo during the Ramadan period. Of course, the label is still red and has the white swirly bit so...
Cheers to Cape Town for being one of the cheapest places in the world in which to share a beer. [Surely the whole of SA? Ed]
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