23 Mar KFC launches edible coffee cup
KFC has unveiled a prototype edible coffee cup. While still under development, plans are in place to introduce it at a number of UK stores later this year.
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23 Mar KWV repositions with new trademark marketing campaign
A first in the company's 97-year history, extraordinarily, KWV has launched its first-ever consumer trademark brand campaign, 'Finish Great', that aims to communicate the company's heritage and product innovation across spirits and wines since 1918. The emotive integrated campaign kicks off today with the flighting...
20 Mar Döhler launches “liquid food & beverage enhancers” product concepts
With its new range of “Liquid Food & Beverage Enhancers”, Döhler is offering alternatives to "end monotony in water, tea, coffee and beer", and offering beverage marketers the means to leverage a trend, and whole new drinks category, in fact, that took the US by...
20 Mar Getting to the chemical ‘mystery’ of powdered alcohol drinks
There's been much media coverage given the recent US government approval of "powdered alcohol" drinks – Palcohol – as it is branded. If you paid attention in chemistry class, you might feel something sounds scientifically and chemically amiss.
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19 Mar And you thought winemaking was a leisurely life
Nederburg is telling it like it is in a series of short little videos that lets consumers into a behind-the-scenes look at what actually goes on at harvest time. Housed on Nederburg's Youtube channel, www.youtube.com/user/NederburgWine, it shows the sweat, the tears, the drama, and...
16 Mar More income, urbanisation and erratic electricity driving demand for UHT milk in Africa
UHT milk sales by volume garnered 53% of market share in 2013, outstripping demand for chilled milk for the first time in South Africa, a growing popularity that can be attributed to numerous factors, reports Penny Ntuli, communications director for Tetra Pak South Africa.
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13 Mar Sprinkle alcohol on your cereal? US regulators okay powdered alcohol
Officials in the US have sparked controversy by approving a powdered alcohol that can be mixed into drinks, snorted or even sprinkled onto food.
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10 Mar UK: Ban sugary energy drinks for children, NGO pleads
UK NGO, Action on Sugar, has called for energy drinks to children to be banned after finding that they contain up to 20 teaspoons of sugar, and that they are "fuelling the obesity epidemic". [Click pic to enlarge]
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10 Mar Moderate alcohol consumption increases attractiveness
Consuming alcohol (equivalent to about a glass of wine) can make the drinker appear more attractive than when sober, according to new research from the University of Bristol. However, the effect disappears when more is consumed.
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09 Mar SodaStream is #1 sparkling water brand in the world
SodaStream International, the global manufacturer and distributor of sparkling water makers, claims it is now the world leader in total volume consumption of sparkling water.
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09 Mar EFSA okays erythritol for use in beverages
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued a positive opinion on the use of erythritol in beverages in the EU. In the EU, erythritol is allowed quantum satis* in food already since 2003, and in novel foods since 2006, but not yet in beverages...
09 Mar AB7 organisers look to SA companies to fill last eight stands at food and beverage expo
Africa's Big Seven (AB7), the biggest food and beverage expo on the continent, has almost completely sold-out all exhibition space at the multi hall Gallagher Convention Centre – with no further room to expand – for the first time in 13 years, report the organisers....
09 Mar SABMiller’s confidence in Africa
SABMiller sees more affordable beer and middle-class aspirations as the biggest growth opportunities in Africa.
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05 Mar Diageo creates a “smart” Johnnie Walker bottle
There's the smart phone. And the smart refrigerator. There's even the smart toothbrush. Now alcoholic beverage giant Diageo, with the help of a digital technology specialist, has created the "smart" Johnnie Walker Blue Label bottle.
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05 Mar Dump the lumps: new WHO guideline on sugar consumption
There's no keeping sugar out the headlines...
05 Mar Four key beer trends for 2015
Has the craft beer boom reached its peak? Will “speers” be the next big thing in beer, and have non-alcohol beers finally lost their stigma? Two months into 2015, Spiros Malandrakis, senior alcoholic drinks analyst at Euromonitor International, takes a look at emerging trends in...
05 Mar Rhino Tears wine raises R100k in three months to anti-poaching efforts
A new wine brand, launched at the end of 2014, has already raised over R100 000 for the war against rhino poaching within South Africa's national parks. The Rhino Tears range of wines from the Mt Vernon estate in Cape Town donates proceeds from every...
05 Mar Iced tea market heats up on health platforms
Despite rising levels of interest in recent years, ready-to-drink (RTD) or iced teas only accounted for a relatively modest 7.5% share of global soft drinks launches recorded by Innova Market Insights in 2014. Developments included the launch of more sophisticated products in relatively established markets,...
05 Mar Campaign set to raise SA’s bottled wine exports
A new initiative, taking advantage of a new duty-free trading agreement with the EU, aims to see more bottled wines exported from South Africa in a bid to raise the country's reputation as a premium producer and promote job creation.
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04 Mar What happens to your body when you give up sugar?
The brain becomes tolerant to sugar – which means more is needed to attain the same 'high'. In ways that nicotine and heroin hijack the brain’s reward pathway and make users dependent, increasing neuro-chemical and behavioural evidence suggests sugar is addictive in the same...