01 Mar Stylish packaging revamp for Esprit
Distell's 36-year old Esprit brand, is sporting new-look packaging and a conversion from paper to pressure-sensitive labels.
01 Mar The Switch Energy Drinks story
Have you heard of Switch Energy Drinks? Me neither... but here is a local company but six years old that's selling millions of its cans in 12 countries. Here's an interview with its founder and MD....
28 Feb SA’s TaB drinkers still have time to say farewell
Coca-Cola South Africa has confirmed that the nation’s TaB fans still have almost two years to wean themselves off the drink.
28 Feb Cape Town to move ahead with new alcohol laws
Western Cape premier Alan Winde says that the province plans to introduce further regulations around the sale of alcohol in an effort to curb abuse.
24 Feb Boxed wine in SA outsold bottles for the first time in 2020
Due to long bans on alcohol sales during the pandemic, South Africa wine sales in the local market shrank by a fifth last year – but so-called “bag in box” wines proved more resilient than bottled wine.
12 Feb Covid can fest for Nampak
Nampak, Africa's biggest packaging and somewhat beleaguered packaging manufacturer, is enjoying a surge in demand for its aluminium beverage cans as booze drinkers take their favourite drinks home - in a can.
11 Feb Alcohol industry recovery – glass half full
The second Covid wave in SA, Govt's tighter lockdown and yet another Prohibition proved a triple Festive Season Grinch for an exasperated population. And where to now for a shattered industry?
11 Feb Vinpro: Sustainability the priority for the wine industry
Wine industry body Vinpro welcomes the lifting of SA's third lockdown Prohibition, and will continue various actions to boost the wine industry's long-term sustainability.
11 Feb Coca-Cola South Africa gets new boss
Phillipine Mtikitiki has been appointed as Coca-Cola Africa’s Vice President for its South Africa franchise.
28 Jan Heineken SA says Windhoek ad wasn’t meant to ‘offend any viewers’
The widely circulated and aired Windhoek Lager advert featuring international actor Gerard Butler received backlash from South Africa’s Advertising Regulatory Board (ARB), which decided last week to ban the commercial for “promoting toxic masculinity”.
28 Jan If Cape Town were a coffee what would it taste like?
Nespresso has launched a Cape Town-inspired coffee as part of its new World Explorations range.
27 Jan Lockdown’s shattering of SA’s wine industry
This is the deeply personal, and at times harrowing account, of what it has been like as a South African winemaker, producer and employer of 100s of desperate employees during the Covid-19 pandemic in a country that continues to ban the sale of any alcohol to devastating effect.
27 Jan Wine producers head to court over alcohol ban
Vinpro wants the ban to be lifted with immediate effect by the court in its hearing on February 5.
22 Jan Distell invests in cannabis business amid crippling booze ban
As South Africa’s lockdown prohibition laws continue to cripple the liquor industry, the country’s leading producer, Distell, has turned to invest in the burgeoning CBD market.
16 Jan SAB cancels R2.5bn in investments, as ‘huge job losses’ loom
SA Breweries, part of AB InBev, has cancelled a further R2.5-billion of investment earmarked for 2021 following a third local ban on alcohol sales in the country, it reports.
13 Jan SA’s Pura Soda has billion dollar ambitions
Three years after launching into its local market, the South African lower-calorie, lower-sugar soft drink brand, Pura Soda, is riding the right trend waves and is already available in 13 countries, including the US. This is a company to watch!
06 Jan SAB is taking South Africa’s latest alcohol ban to court
SA Breweries (SAB) is challenging the constitutionality of South Africa’s latest alcohol ban.
21 Dec Pick n Pay helps wine industry recover from lockdown damage
South African retailer Pick n Pay has announced its commitment to purchasing 25 million bottles of wine in 2021 to support the local wine industry.
15 Dec SAB ordered to remove misleading labelling from Brutal Fruit products
The High Court of South Africa has interdicted and restrained the SA Breweries (SAB) from distributing, marketing or selling two Brutal Fruit Spritzer variants with non-compliant labelling and advertising.
13 Dec The Duchess and Castle Free go apartying
The Duchess and Castle Free have joined together to offer conscious consumers an alcohol-free party-pack, dubbed "Brew & Botanical".