Beverage consultancy Slo-Jo Trading, specialist advisor to many QSR and food service groups, reports it has acquired sole distribution rights for the trendy chocolate coated cones, Coffee in a Cone, an SA innovation that has become a global Instragram hit.
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Last year R1.78bn of Scotch was imported to SA, indicating how it has become the tipple of choice for a wide cross-section of South Africans.
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It's time to be introduced to Food Focus, www.foodfocus.co.za, which, dear reader, is a place to visit and bookmark if you are involved in any way in producing or marketing food and drinks in South Africa, or servicing those industries.
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A tax on sugar-laden beverages may jeopardise Coca-Cola's investment plans in South Africa. However, there is an alternative to the sugary tax, says head of communications Zipporah Maubane.
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SA can be proud of its PET bottle recycling efforts - in 2015, 52% of PET plastic bottles were collected for recycling in South Africa, reports PETCO.
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Wine and olive oil production will be new additions to the acclaimed Propak Cape exhibition in October next year, with organisers, Specialised Exhibitions Montgomery, announcing the launch of the co-located Wine and Olive Oil Suppliers Expo.
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Distell's House of JC Le Roux, South Africa’s leading sparkling wine producer, has added an exciting new range of high quality bubblies to the JC Le Roux family to appeal to those who enjoy a drier, more sophisticated taste.
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The SA Breweries you knew and loved, which listed on the JSE back in 1897, is no more. After Anheuser-Busch InBev’s $109bn takeover last month, apprehension is stalking the corridors of the SA beer icon. But for new boss Carlos Brito, the numbers will trump...
There are political, environmental, commercial and social controversies associated with that most delectable of South African beverages: rooibos tea. The debate enfolds both the plant itself and the traditional use and knowledge that fostered the growth of this lucrative industry.
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Are South Africans the 8th highest sugar consumers in the world? Africa Check investigated...
In a curious way, whisky has largely tracked the same curve as every segment of the South African liquor business, writes Michael Fridjhon...
New to SA's chiller shelves is DanUp, an new beverage that combines yoghurt with multiple grains.
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The South African government has decided to tax sugary drinks to help cut excess sugar consumption, which is contributing to a burgeoning epidemic of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. This follows the lead of Mexico and the US city of Berkeley,...
In a timeous and topical development, Paarl-based Afriplex, well established beneficiator of indigenous plants, has announced it is embarking on a project to locally cultivate and process stevia (Stevia rebaudiana), viewed by many as a Holy Grail of non-nutritive sweeteners.
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Since Taste Holdings CE, Carlo Gonzaga, opened his first Scooters pizza store 16 years ago he has always thought big. But there is market concern that in taking on Domino’s Pizza and Starbucks, two global heavyweight brands, in one shot he has bitten off more...
Hot on the heels of launching new Clover NoLac lactose-free milk, the dairy giant has débuted another new brand, Clover Care, a fortified fresh/UHT milk.
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Rising demand for quality coffees and sweet treats has lured yet another American favourite to SA’s shores.
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One of the US's fiercest food industry critics, Michael Jacobson, president of the Centre for Science in the Public Interest in Washington DC, has been in South Africa. Here's his take on SA's proposed sugar tax sweetened beverages.
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Coca-Cola has announced that it will exercise a change-of-control clause, allowing it to acquire SABMiller's former interest in the soft-drink company’s largest African bottling company.
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An unexpectedly flat performance from plastic packaging specialist Bowler Metcalf's 43%-owned soft-drink bottling subsidiary, SoftBev, has resulted in a swathe of speculation, reports the Financial Mail.
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