25 Feb Coke to promote bottle’s centennial with global campaign
Coca-Cola will mark the 100th year of its iconic bottle with a global ad campaign in more than 100 countries.
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25 Feb Ball agrees to buy Rexam, creating largest can maker
America's Ball Corp has agreed to buy Britain's Rexam for about £4.4-billion ($6.8-billion) in cash and stock to create the world’s biggest maker of food and beverage cans.
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25 Feb Tate & Lyle launches allulose as a branded low-calorie sugar
Tate & Lyle has launched Dolcia Prima Low-Calorie Sugar, its newest ingredient it hopes will help the food and beverage industry in developing low or reduced-calorie products.
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25 Feb SA: Fitch & Leedes mixers now in elegant glass bottles
Fitch & Leedes, the premium-positioned carbonates brand in Chill Beverages International's stable, has been moved a notch higher with its launch in an elegant new glass bottle.
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24 Feb Rhodes Food continues its juicy acquisition spree
Shortly after it spent R165m buying Cape juice company, Pacmar, Rhodes Food Group (RFG) has announced it's to buy Boland Pulp‚ a juice and puree maker‚ and Deemster‚ a company that focuses on pickled foods‚ as it looks to diversify its business.
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18 Feb Stevia from fermentation will be available next year, says Evolva
As pressure grows on sugar in soft drinks, there continues to be massive interest in stevia as a non-nutritive alternative. Now comes news that stevia sweeteners derived from fermentation – without stevia plants – could be launched as early as 2016, according to Evolva, the...
18 Feb Starbucks Britain: A strange loss-making machine
Coffee shops are among the most profitable parts of the food and drink business. And few are doing quite as well as Starbucks, the Seattle-based giant. Last month, the firm's American parent announced that it made 82% more profits during the last quarter of 2014...
18 Feb ASA rules Amstel Lite packaging ‘too similar’ to Castle Lite
SAB's Castle Lite remains the heavyweight in the "lite" beer market after Brandhouse was recently ordered to change the appearance of its Amstel Lite beer cans and six-pack wrapping.
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18 Feb How the protein beverage market is divvying up
Protein has become a buzz word in the food and beverage industry. It's up there with gluten-free, non-GMO and all natural. Consumers crave it and brands are launching new products and re-branding existing SKUs to feature the protein claim more prominently on the front label....
18 Feb US: Budweiser campaign highlights rift between ‘big beer’ and craft
After several years of losing ground to craft brewers, Anheuser-Busch, America's biggest brewery, seems to be not only conceding but leveraging the fact that its flagship brew does not fly with fans of fancy suds.
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16 Feb New African craft beers from Striped Horse
The founder of BOS Ice Tea and Afro Coffee, Grant Rushmere, and ex-game ranger Charles Bertram have created and launched Striped Horse, new African craft beers.
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12 Feb Parmalat issues recall for some caustic-contaminated PureJoy apple juice packs
Parmalat South Africa has issued a public recall of a batch of its PureJoy apple juice after customer complaints prompted tests which found contamination with cleaning fluid.
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09 Feb Who’s driving world wine consumption?
A new industry report has revealed how much wine is being produced each year—and who’s drinking it.
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09 Feb US: Fuze Tea, Gold Peak join Coke’s billion-dollar club
Amid burgeoning demand for iced tea products, Coca-Cola has announced that two of its brands, Gold Peak and Fuze Tea, are the newest additions to its portfolio of billion-dollar drinks.
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09 Feb Bag-in-box only wine retailer to ramp up international expansion
Is this a sign that bag-in-box wine has finally 'arrived'? BiBoViNo is a high end, French bag-in-box-only wine retailer that's got big ambitions for global growth.
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05 Feb Distell crowned ‘Distiller of the Year’ in international contest
South Africa's Distell continues to grow its whisky credentials. It was recently awarded the title of 'Distiller of the Year' - for all producers from outside Scotland and the US - in an international whisky competition, muscling out a Japanese contender for first place.
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05 Feb US: Suja Juice named #2 in Forbes ‘Most Promising Companies’ of 2015
Forbes magazine has named San Diego-based Suja Juice the No 2 "America's Most Promising Company", up from No 3 last year. Suja Juice is the only company in history to move up a place in the top 5 Forbes ranking, the...
04 Feb US: Coca-Cola-backed Fairlife milk launches nationally
Boasting 50 percent more protein, 30 percent more calcium and half the sugar content of traditional milk, Fairlife, an ultra-filtered milk brand distributed by Coca-Cola, is rolling out nationally in the US.
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04 Feb Is Scotch slipping off its high-flying perch?
The Scotch whisky category appears to have hit a tipping point. What does the future look like for the until-recently booming category?
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04 Feb Can 5-hour’s “New and Improved Taste” sway consumers?
Taste has seldom been an important aspect of energy drinks or shots, but it's clearly an issue that's been giving the owners of 5-hour Energy some headaches - they've now announced a reformulation to make it more yummy and less medicinal.
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