Kombucha, the ancient fermented tea, is enticing many producers and fans into its immune-boosting and adventurous taste arena. It's moving from kitchen to craft to mainstream in many markets - and SA, too, is not off this map.
South Africa's leading cold-drink manufacturer is pulling its sugary soft drinks out of school tuck shops, but is still offering kids a sweet deal.
The proposed tax on sugary drinks is likely to go ahead later this year, following negotiations between government, labour and industry at the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac).
Pieter “Mr Bubbles” Ferreira has been synonymous with sparkling wine for almost three decades after joining Graham Beck in 1990 to what has become one of South Africa’s prestige sparkling wine producers.
The extreme drought in the Western Cape has, until now, not had a major effect on the wine industry, but adequate rainfall is needed this winter for good vine performance and crop yields for the coming season, wine producer body VinPro says.
AB-InBev subsidiary, SAB is investing R2.8-billion into brewery expansions, including two new packaging lines for returnable glass bottles, at its Alrode and Rosslyn breweries, in Gauteng.
On the shop floor the battle of the shelf wars has intensified, as big beverage companies move to entrench their position by squeezing out smaller competitors from prime display space.
Aperol, an Italian apertivo with an alcohol by volume of just 11%, has always been popular in its native country. Thanks to strategic marketing and consumers' new-found love of cocktails, it's emerging as brand on a global growth trajectory.
The Appletiser plant in Elgin is ready to almost double its annual production by October, following its merger last year of the non-alcoholic ready-to-drink bottling operations of the Coca-Cola Company, SABMiller and Gutsche Family Investments to form Coca Cola Beverages SA (CCBSA).
Following an array of successful Sauvignon Blanc vintages, Durbanville Hills has expanded its range to launch a vibrant Sauvignon Blanc sparkling wine with stunning packaging.
Cape Town's ever-innovative NoMU Foods has launched a new drink in time for SA's winter, an unsweetened hot chocolate variant to its hot choc range.
Liquor giant, Distell, looks determined to reinforce a profitable position for its wine division in a tough consumer market by reducing the number of brands.
SA's Treasury has rejected claims of calamitous job losses resulting from the imposition of a health promotion levy.
On 28 September 2016, the shareholders of South African born international brewer, SABMiller, approved the company’s acquisition by Anheuser-Busch InBev for $104-billion (R1.5-trillion). The deal paved the way for the creation of what is now by far the world’s largest brewing company.
June 10 is World Gin Day – an excuse (as if one were needed in light of its current popularity) to indulge in a beverage whose history is more fraught than most other alcoholic drinks.
Starbucks founder Howard Schultz recently presented a stirring commencement speach at Arizona State University. Raised in poverty and driven by a higher purpose to create his massive multinational which now employs 300 000 people, Schultz told the story of his South African Ubuntu discovery, encouraging the graduates of the US’s biggest university to apply its lesson in their own lives.
A state-of-the-art high-pressure processing/pasteurisation ‘tollgate’ has opened in Midrand. What’s all the excitement about? HPP technology, long and slow to take off, has become a game-changer for the food and beverage industry and is gaining rapid momentum worldwide.
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red espresso, the innovators behind South Africa’s popular rooibos red cappuccino, have added a new item to the premium gourmet beverage market with the launch of instant red cappuccino.
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A professiosnal three-day symposium, Food Forum 2017, offers delegates the opportunity to learn and gain CPD credits as Africa’s Big 7 expo goes international in Jo'burg this June.
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