Some views from SA beverage and food businesses on how the Covid-19 pandemic has forced mindset changes and innovation to improve operations, and could even catalyse innovation and growth in future.
Social media has been abuzz, and much of it less than complimentary, over a new marketing campaign by Clover for its fresh milk. Here's the fabulous Jonathan Cherry's savvy take on this....
Chill Beverages International, the producer of Fitch & Leeds and Score Energy, has officially launched Day water, said to be the first commercial canned water brand in Africa.
South Africa’s leading manufacturer of UHT milk, Woodlands Dairy, has joined the direct-to-consumer wave and has opened an online store. [My trial shop was easy and impressed with prices. Ed]
South Africa's successful The Duchess brand has a new addition to its innovative range of premium alcohol-free beverages...
The Polyoak Group, a major packaging supplier to the foodbev sectors, reports on its 'new normal' and other extraordinary activities in the Covid-19 era.
South African innovation, Lifematrix Desert Milk, has won the 2020 World Dairy Innovation Award for Best Functional Dairy product.
The winemaking team at Nederburg in Paarl share some interesting information about this supremely versatile grape, South Africa’s most-planted wine grape variety.
Nestlé has launched Starbucks At Home premium instant (soluble) coffee in South Africa. The new range consists of Medium Roast and Dark Roast coffees, as well as a variety of coffee beverages.
Perdeberg Wines in Paarl has launched a 250ml format of its popular easy-drinking and fruit-driven Soft Smooth Range (SSR) red in an attention-grabbing, zebra-print can.
To complement South Africa’s much-loved powdered Cremora coffee creamer, Nestlé SA has expanded the brand into the liquid non-dairy creamer category.
The triennial South African wine trade show, CapeWine, held in Cape Town and hosted by Wines of South Africa (WOSA), will now take place in 2023.
Just at a time when health has moved to priority No 1, Bos Brands, the makers of the successful Bos Ice Tea brand, have launched a range of functional rooibos-based shots.
It likely couldn’t have happened at a worse time, but cheers to the first hard seltzer – a massive hit in the US – on SA shelves, the work of two enthusiastic entrepreneurs who aren’t deterred by corona challenges. Here’s the Savage Sparkles story…
The triennial Propak Cape exhibition, slated for October 2020 at Cape Town International Convention Centre, will be held next year at the same venue.
The Rémy Cointreau Group has partnered with Flow Hospitality Training, a leading online learning and development provider, to offer accredited training to hospitality workers at no cost.
Seven people from a Cape Town township have died after drinking homemade alcohol, while 13 others were hospitalised, some in a critical condition, after they consumed the brew that was tainted with methanol.Â
Fitch & Leedes, the premium range of mixers from Chill Beverages International, is going big with eco-friendly, one-litre PET bottles for its popular Pink and Indian Tonics.
Tertius Carstens, the current CEO of Pioneer Foods, has been appointed CEO of PepsiCo sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Nice on-trend innovation from Woodlands Dairy - a high-protein recovery drink under its First Choice brand that's scientifically formulated to give all athletes, elite and amateur, rapid muscle recovery following intense workouts or competition.