For Capetonians there is only one topic of conversation: water. The nightmare scenario of Day Zero, when the municipal taps are turned off in April, is ever more likely. SA's bottled water industry is rising to the crisis, reports SANBWA.
With the impending likelihood of Day Zero in April, Coca-Cola Peninsula Beverages has issued a report on its actions to help augment water supplies to Cape Town, as well as how its mitigating the water crisis on its own operations.
After 200 years of making beer, Newlands Brewery in Cape Town is going into the water business, one of many corporates who will be asked to help with the city's impending catastrophic Day Zero or municipal water shut-down come April.
The South African wine industry is experiencing one of its most exciting - and challenging - phases in history. So, what are some of the emerging trends shaping it in 2018?
The Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town is calling on all South Africans to put down their drinking straws because we are facing a "catastrawphe", and something must be done to save our seas.
BOS Brands, whose range of iconic rooibos ice teas has revolutionised the South African ice tea market since launching in 2010, is set for further growth after signing a sales and distribution agreement with Rhodes Food Group (RFG), one of Southern Africa’s biggest food producing and distribution companies.
Firmenich, the world’s largest privately-owned company in the fragrance and flavour business, is acquiring Flavourome, its long-time agent in South Africa. No value to the deal has been mentioned.
One in seven adults in SA admit to being binge-drinkers‚ but researchers say the problem is likely to be much worse as people are inherently coy on reporting their alcohol consumption.
Greenleaf + Terroir is a new G&T craft brand that intends to shake up the pre-mixed alcoholic drink market, which has, for the most part, failed to truly win over consumers.
Launching a new wine into a South African market saturated with 8 000 brands is a hugely daunting exercise. But where there is a will, there is a way, and for Orange River Cellars the word “impossible” does not exist.
Dairypack has won double honours for its new ‘Green Milk Bottle’, developed in partnership with Woolworths; taking gold for sustainability at the recent Gold Pack Awards and an international WorldStar Award 2018.
Heineken, the world’s second-largest brewer, has started building a $100m plant in Mozambique as it seeks to compete with its larger competitor, AB InBev, in the southeast African country.
South Africa’s bottled water industry, the third-largest player in South Africa’s non-alcoholic beverage industry yet accounting for only 8.9% of the market, is not exacerbating the impact of the drought currently gripping several areas of the country, including the Western Cape.
The National Council of Provinces’ (NCOP) select committee on finance has adopted the bill which includes a provision for the health promotion levy — or sugar tax — without amendment.
In a second move into the beverage sector, the investment firm founded by former Bidvest mogul, Brian Joffe, will pay at least R452-million in cash and shares for Stellenbosch's Chill Beverages.
Meet Lautus Savvy White – claimed as South Africa’s very first de-alcoholised wine, "crafted with a single goal in mind: to deliver the best of the grape in the healthiest possible way".
An exciting new convenience cappuccino, Ella, has just launched in South Africa, enabling consumers to carry barista-quality coffee in their back pocket, and make it anywhere as long as they have hot water.
Plastics packaging specialist Bowler Metcalf (Bowcalf) served up a dose of good news to shareholders on its investment in struggling soft-drink bottler SoftBev at its annual general meeting recently (8 November).
Newcomer to SA's vibrant craft gin market, Sugarbird Fynbos Gin, has started off with a bang - beneficiary of a record-breaking crowdfunding campaign that has proven irresistible to investors who believe the brand has legs to fly across the globe.
SA has a host of world-class craft gin producers, and this year, for the first time, they could submit their products to a panel of local and globally-acclaimed spirits experts at the Michelangelo International Wine & Spirits Awards.