05 Dec Rooibos prices set to rise
The price of rooibos tea will rise by 15 percent from January next year because of supply constraints and growing demand, producer Rooibos Limited has said.
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05 Dec Indian billionaire buys three Franschhoek farms
SA's WINE and hospitality industry has attracted the attention of Indian billionaire Analjit Singh (59), who has bought three adjoining Franschhoek farms as well as a substantial stake in Mullineux Family Wines, which is Platter's Winery of the Year for 2013.
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05 Dec PepsiCo and Coca-Cola creating the cola of the future
To reverse category sales slump, soft-srink marketers partner with biotech companies to find low-sugar drinks that also taste good! The next chapter in the cola-marketing wars could be influenced as much by science labs as TV commercials.
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01 Dec SABMiller man new MD of Distell
Former SABMiller executive, Richard Rushton, has taken over the reins of Distell this month, succeeding long-serving Jan Scannell as MD.
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28 Nov Six lessons eight decades after Prohibition
December 5, 2013, marks the 80th anniversary of the ratification of the 21st Amendment which ended Prohibition in the US — though beer got a bit of a jump on wine and spirits in April of 1933. And in the eight decades that have followed...
27 Nov “Share a Coke” campaign comes to Africa
November has seen the launch by Coca-Cola South Africa of the hugely-successful international "Share a Coke" campaign - and has inspired hordes of people to seek out 550ml Coke bottles and 330ml cans with their names on them.
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27 Nov Coke acquires remaining stake in Zico
With sales of its traditional sodas under pressure, Coca-Cola has announced the acquisition of its outstanding ownership stake in Zico, the premium coconut water brand.
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27 Nov Nampak Glass wins energy management ticket
Nampak Glass has become the first company in South Africa to win ISO 50001: 2011 certification, the energy management standard, as audited and certified by SGS South Africa.
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27 Nov Talking to SAB’s new MD
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.
...21 Nov PIWOSA promotes top SA wines in the UK market
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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21 Nov 2014: The year of transformative flavours?
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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15 Nov SA’s top craft brewers winners announced in inaugural competition
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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15 Nov World’s fastest growing functional food in 2013? Infant formula by far
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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15 Nov Matcha: the next big drink out of Asia?
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...
15 Nov Kerry sets up shop in Lagos
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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14 Nov Paper wine bottle débuts in the US
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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14 Nov Starbucks to pay Kraft nearly $2.8bn
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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14 Nov New packaging for Freshpak health and baby teas
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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13 Nov COMMENT: Save the rare wine and endangered craft beer
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...
13 Nov Senomyx-PepsiCo sweet taste modifier will be commercialised in 2014
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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