Mauricio Leyva is not a man to be overwhelmed by tradition. He appears to have given little thought to the fact that he is the first non-South African to head up a local company that can, at a stretch, trace its origins back to 1895.
...Looking to boost the deserved reputation of premium South African wines, top-notch independent wineries in the Western Cape are collaborating through PIWOSA, Premium Independent Winemakers of South Africa, to boost their wine sales in the UK; SA’s leading wine export market.
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Consumers will enter a whole new arena of tasting adventures in the coming year, predicts US flavour house, Comax Flavors, combinations that will energise and intrigue food, beverage and spirit developers alike.
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SAB’s World of Beer has announced the winners of the inaugural South African National Craft Brewers Championship. [Interesting move for SAB to award and recognise its competition, albeit tiny! Ed]
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Infant formula is the fastest growing healthy and functional food and drink category – adding almost $5bn in global sales in 2013 according to Euromonitor International.
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Never heard of matcha before? You are likely to hear more and more about this super-healthy, turbo-charged green-tea beverage in future. In the UK it's being marketed as the next big thing, and to consumers hungry for ways of getting healthy without doing anything too...
Kerry Group, the global ingredients & flavours and consumer foods group, has formally announced the establishment of a Kerry Commercial Office in Lagos, Nigeria, to serve the group’s global and regional customer base in Nigeria and the wider West African region.
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In its first commercialisation, British packaging firm, GreenBottle's paper wine bottle has been launched in the US with California wine producer, Truett-Hurst, for a wine dubbed Paperboy.
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Starbucks has been ordered by an arbitor to pay Kraft’s former parent, Mondelez International, $2.23-billion in damages plus $527-million in prejudgment interest and attorneys’ fees after the coffee chain’s early termination of a grocery distribution deal.
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Significant cost-savings and extended affordability have seen Freshpak, SA's market leader in rooibos tea, introduce new packaging for its Wellness and Baby Tea ranges.
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Moralistic busybodies can all rattle off reasons why alcohol is bad. They’d ban it, if they hadn’t learnt the hard way that prohibition turned out to be counter-productive. So they go after alcohol advertising instead. It may or may not help some people, but it...
American flavour innovator, Senomyx, says the first products arising from a collaboration with PepsiCo using a novel sweet taste modifier called S617 should hit shelves next year - contingent upon a GRAS (Generally Recognised As Safe) determination.
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In June this year, the UK brewery industry joined forces and launched a major campaign, called ‘Let there be beer’. It brought together SABMiller, AB Inbev, Carlsberg, Heineken and Molson Coors in bid to change the image of beer and combat falling sales.
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The latest trends impacting the food industry include moves to reduce the huge amount of food waste, as consumers simultaneously adapt their habits in times of continuing austerity. These trends come as the industry focuses on regaining consumer trust, following a year of negative headlines,...
Rapid cooling of beverages has always been problematic. So, it seems logical to ask the question: "Why isn't there something like a microwave cooler?" Well, there soon could be, in the form of the V-Tex – although it will incorporate vortexes instead of microwaves.
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Coke and Pepsi are facing a new health-related challenge as doctors increasingly link their sugary beverages to debilitating illness, according to a critical new report by Wall Street bank, Credit Suisse, and research from Georgetown University, made available exclusively to Adweek.
...Every two years, the Packaging Council of South Africa (PACSA) names its ‘Packaging Achiever’ – an accolade that’s traditionally presented at IPSA’s biennial Gold Pack Awards (announced late October). This is a significant honour and this year’s winner is Jeremy Mackintosh, MD of Polyoak Packaging,...
US company, Puget Technologies, has announced its subsidiary, Cannabis Biotech, is developing cannabis-infused beverages as one of several new delivery methods of cannabis-based medicines.
Mexico has become the standard bearer in the global fight against obesity, after parliamentarians passed a law imposing significant new taxes on junk food and sugary drinks.
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Kombucha may be thousands of years old, but buzz is now brewing over the non-alcoholic fermented beverage made from tea.
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