27 May Coca-Cola cans energy drink line in N America
In anther trimming of its portfolio, Coca-Cola will discontinue Coca-Cola Energy in North America, less than two years after it launched there.
05 May Space-aged wine expects to sell for small fortune
A bottle of French wine that orbited the Earth for more than a year has been put up for sale by Christie's - with an exorbitant price tag!
04 May Super-premium Nescafé instant coffees
Nestlé continues to take instant coffee to new heights, launching the Nescafé Gold Blend Roastery Collection, barista-style soluble coffees.
04 May Purple wine launches in Australia
An Australian winemaker has embraced nature's rarest colour and made a completely natural purple wine in a world first.
21 Apr How many CO2 bubbles in a glass of beer?
French scientists have been hard at work, cracking open the mystery of how many bubbles are in a glass of beer.
21 Apr Global revamp for Coca-Cola range as it sticks by unified pack strategy
Coca-Cola is globally rolling out revamped Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Coca-Cola Zero Sugar packs, a design continuation of its ‘One Brand’ strategy, which it describes as “integral” to its marketing approach.
23 Mar Nestlé acquires Essentia, expands in premium functional water
Nestlé has underlined its focus on the premium end of the bottled water category with the acquisition of US ionized alkaline water producer, Essentia, the pioneer in alkaline water when it launched in 1998.
17 Mar UK: Baby formula in innovative new format
Here's some savvy innovation from Danone - the launch of the "first ever" formula milk in the UK to be sold in a pre-measured tab format.
17 Mar Oatly goes big in the UK
Swedish alt-milk brand Oatly, which is gearing up for a US stock market listing, has announced plans to open one of the world’s biggest plant-based dairy factories in the UK.
15 Mar US: PepsiCo backs cocktail culture craze
PepsiCo is making its first foray into the non-alcoholic cocktail mixers category with the launch of Neon Zebra, aimed at Gen Z and young Millennials (21-34-year olds) who like making cocktails at home, but are looking for more “fun and practical" mixers.
11 Feb Better Juice, GEA partner to disrupt global orange juice industry
Better Juice, the innovative sugar-reduction foodtech start-up, is joining forces with GEA Group, Germany, to scale up and expand its global footprint.
11 Feb US: Coca-Cola transitions to bottles made from 100% rPET
Coca-Cola is introducing new bottles made from 100% recycled plastic material across its North American portfolio. Its new innovations will reduce the use of new plastic by more than 20% compared to 2018.
11 Feb PepsiCo launches Frutly juice waters for teens
PepsiCo launched a line of juice waters called Frutly aimed at the teenager market.
27 Jan Founder of Zico beverage brand buys it back from Coca-Cola
Zico Beverages founder Mark Rampolla is bringing his beverage baby back home after seven years apart.
10 Jan UK: Gordon’s pushes into ‘low & no’ with 0.0% spirit
Spirits giant Diageo is taking its Gordon’s into 'low & no' with a 0% version of the massive gin brand.
13 Dec New approach to sugar reduction via super-sweet proteins
US cranberry company, Ocean Spray, has partnered with Amai Proteins to incorporate healthy, sweet proteins into its product portfolio, creating cranberry juice with roughly 40 percent less sugar.
27 Nov Hydrosol takes giant step into plant-based ingredients
The plant-based food trend is an over-arching movement around the world - and now Germany's Hydrosol has taken a massive step to serve this market with the launch of a new company, Planteneers – The Plant Based Pioneers.
09 Nov Silicon Valley start-up launches quickfire whisky
Bespoken Spirits is a Silicon Valley-based start-up, one of several reinventing the $500bn global spirits industry, using proprietary technology to reproduce the taste of a barrel-aged whisky, rum or brandy in three to five days.
26 Oct A new plant-based alternative to cow’s milk
Impossible Foods, makers of the Impossible Burger and other plant-based meat alternatives, is working on another food replacement that looks, tastes and behaves like cow’s milk.
26 Oct Coca-Cola kills TaB, after almost 60 years
Coca-Cola has confirmed that it will stop selling TaB across the world, including in South Africa.