The international rise of coffee culture has spread rapidly throughout urban centres and has become one of the most competitive markets in the food and beverage industry. With competition for the customers' coffee Rand at an all-time high, convenience stores have become one of the...
As a marketleader, Red Heart Rum has long been associated with uncompromising, bold and distinctive taste. Now, after undergoing a rigorous packaging make-over, its bottle has an equally bold new look.
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Towards the end of last year, Rekorderlig, a leading Swedish fruit cider, entered the South African cider market with three of its flagship flavours, including; Strawberry and Lime, Wild Berries and Pear.
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How's this for a lovely, disruptive take on an age-old SA favourite tipple? A Stellenbosch company has launched a new type of 'Brandy 'n Coke'...
In the "DIY" soda arena, the focus has been on SodaStream and the development of Keurig Kold by Keurig Green Mountain and its tie-up with Coca-Cola. Moving along, too, is another option, the launch in Canada of Bonne O that works without a CO2 cartridge.
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SABMiller is reportedly looking for a creative agency to launch a new global beer brand but the multinational is remaining tight-lipped.
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Global food and beverage new product launches containing dairy permeate are sharply increasing around the world, reaching a record high in 2014, according to an analysis of data from the Innova Market Insights database.
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Innocent Smoothies, the high-profile British 'healthy' drinks business now owned by Coca-Cola, has launched a new flavoured sparkling water in an attempt to secure further market share in the competitive drinks sector.
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Apparently taking a leaf out of the 'water enhancer' book, Kraft is launching a liquid variant of its famous powdered Kool-Aid, just as America gears up for summertime - and it claims to offer both convenience and value with 50% less sugar than leading regular...
Lipton Ice Tea, South Africa’s leading ice tea brand, has launched its first combination flavour – Green Ice Tea Pear and Peach. With a naturally refreshing and tasty flavour, offering consumers refreshment in every sip, the product hit shelves at the end of March.
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The way at-home soda brewers are ratcheting up their offers, you'd never guess "The Soda Industry is Dying," as NASDAQ declared recently on the heels of a report that carbonated-soft-drink sales were down in 2014 for the 10th year in a row. Instead, the makers...
Former rugby Springbok Guy Kebble - brother of the infamous Brett - is hoping to clean up in the US with a business based on purity. Kebble runs liquid purification company SurePure, which is listed on the New York exchange OTC Markets which in turn...
Europeans have Nespresso, Americans have Keurig, accompanied by its ubiquitous K-Cups and produced by Keurig Green Mountain, which grew out of the company that was founded on one John Sylvan’s invention in 1990. Sylvan has recently expressed regret over ever devising the system...
For the world’s largest beverage company, the question is no longer whether or not it needs to reinvent itself to thrive but whether or not it can, and if it can, then how?
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It started as a one-man experiment, and evolved into something of a social media joke - but Soylent, the Los Angeles start-up that makes a powdery beverage as a meal replacement with a sweeping nutritional composition, recently raised $20-million in additional venture capital, and claims...
Pepsi has reclaimed its positioning as the No 2 soda in the United States, five years after losing that spot to Diet Coke.
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Nutritional labelling on alcoholic drinks could become the norm after four of the world's biggest brewers backed plans to add these to their products in Europe — and the US potentially is their next stop. It's already happening in SA (pictured right on SAB's Castle...
Castle Lite’s re-sealable Platinum Pack is back by popular demand with a national launch for a limited period. The distinctive 470ml aluminum bottle with its progressive design and wide-mouth re-sealable lid, offers consumers the ultimate in “cold blast refreshment”.
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Modern winemakers may have erred when they switched to producing high alcohol wines. According to a new paper, from Spanish neuroscientists Ram Frost and colleagues, a low alcohol content wine actually produces more brain activity in 'taste processing' areas than more alcoholic varieties do.
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Britons used to the traditional black pint of Guinness, can now enjoy a new addition to the Guinness family - and it's golden.
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