FMCG giant Pioneer Foods is part of the voluntary healthy food options industry initiative, being coordinated by the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa (CGCSA), in an effort to mitigate against the rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) caused by a poor diet, which accounts for 40% of the deaths in South Africa.
After months of rumour, the news is official that trendy Jo'burg craft beer brand and brewery, Soweto Gold and the Soweto Brewing Company, have been bought by brewing giant Heineken.
It's going to be much harder to buy a beer in Cape Town‚ if the Western Cape government has its way.
New Harbour Distillery in Woodstock, Cape Town, recently released its super-premium Protea Gin, packaged in a knockout bottle.
In his sixth annual guide to South African wines, award-winning British journalist and Master of Wine, Tim Atkin, argues that the Cape is making the best wines in its 358 year history and that its industry is “dynamic, exciting and still evolving”.
Gin is an uber-trend here and worldwide, and now consumers can get a fix in a new format with the launch of South Africa’s first-ever gin-based Popsicles.
Implementation of the health promotion levy — previously known as the sugar-sweetened beverages tax — will be delayed until April 2018, Treasury deputy director-general, Ismail Momoniat, said yesterday.
Introducing The Gin Box, a new initiative that will deliver local craft gins to imbibers' doors.
Distell's cider hegemony is under big challenge by AB InBev's 'near beers', with female imbibers driving much of the growth.
Long4Life, the new investment company started by Bidvest founder, Brian Joffe, will pay up to R360m for Gauteng co-packaging bottling company, Inhle Beverages.
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.