South African wine enthusiasts, especially those whose preference is for small-batch production of handcrafted wines, conveniently forget for most of the 20th century the Cape wine industry would not have survived without the Cape brandy industry, writes Michael Fridjohn.
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Taste Holdings and Starbucks have announced the location of their third store in South Africa...
SA Treasury's proposed sugar tax has a laudable objective, but as it stands, the tax is "unwieldy, it will be near impossible to police and, critically, would do little to target hidden sugars in many of the other foods we consume". Some cogent comment from...
South African wine exports are projected to grow 13% in the next decade, according to the latest Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy baseline report, which provides a snapshot of the country’s wine industry and the broader agricultural sector.
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The Beverage Association of SA, whose members include almost all manufacturers of non-alcoholic drinks in the country, has warned that up to 70,000 jobs in the industry could be lost if the Treasury’s mooted tax on sugar-sweetened drinks were implemented in its current form.
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Food and beverages are an important economic factor for Southern Africa. food & drink technology Africa, the trade fair for processing, filling, packaging and logistics, will present the industry’s latest developments on September 14 -15, 2016.
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Van Loveren Vineyard's Four Cousins brand hit the shelves 15 years ago and is now a leader in SA's mass-market glass bottle category.
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National Treasury’s proposed sugar tax will discriminate sharply between different parts of the soft drink market, with an effective tax rate of anything between 8% and 50% on different products, reports City Press.
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The Consumer Goods Council of SA and its members are concerned about the rising levels of obesity in SA, but believe that the proposed taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages and sugar-sweetened food pose real and unforeseen risks to the industry and wider economy.
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Probyo is a newly launched brand and range of all-natural, cultured functional drinks, which aim to promote general health and wellbeing.
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After years of administrative delays, PepsiCo, the world’s second-largest food and beverage company by revenue, is finally building a $30m bottling plant in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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SA’s new sugar tax could add 20% to the price of a Coca-Cola, but would exempt Liquifruit and other 100% fruit juices, along with unsweetened milk and bottled water.
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The place for sports supplements within the current South African legislative framework is currently in discussion. Within this context, University of Pretoria researchers have found that muscle-building shakes don’t always have as much protein as they claim to.
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The African Coca-Cola operation unbundled from SABMiller started operating today.
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"Megabrew" has overcome a major obstacle - AB Inbev's R1,5tn takeover of FTSE 100 rival SABMiller has won the approval of South Africa’s competition authorities, with conditions.
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Talk to long-serving executives at SAB and they’ll tell you the "dirtiest trick" played in the battle between Heineken and SAB was the manner in which Heineken "stole" Amstel from them in 2007. Talk to long-serving South African beer drinkers and they might tell you...
Matola Gare, on the outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique, is now home to a new $130-million world-class bottling plant - the latest milestone in a 10-year, $17-billion investment plan by the Coca-Cola system in Africa.
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The humble carrot has celebrity status at Greenway Farms where man and machine work in fine-tuned harmony and where the owners are embarking on a bold new high-tech adventure in juicing.
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At 9.45am each day, more than 1 000 Indian Runner ducks are released for the first of two sorties at South Africa's Vergenoegd vineyard in Stellenbosch. Their mission: seek and eat thousands of tiny white dune snails feasting on budding vines.
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