20 Sep Appletiser marks 50th birthday with limited edition cans
2016 is a special year for South Africa’s iconic Appletiser - in celebration of its Golden Anniversary, it has launched a range of limited edition cans.
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19 Sep Clover to launch low-sugar Tropika
Clover, which controls almost 80% of SA's dairy fruit juices market, will soon launch Tropika Slender, the low-sugar and low- calorie alternative to its bestselling beverage Tropika, as it seeks a safeguard against the looming sugar tax.
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07 Sep Interest in local craft gin blossoms
Gin is very on trend; it has ditched the sobriquet of ‘mother’s ruin’, and is bolstered by its ability to take on so many flavours, its versatility in mixed drinks and how locally it can be made. And South African craft gins are earning high...
06 Sep OP-ED: Sugar tax will have negligible impact on public health
While the media has “fact-checked” claims made by the beverage industry in opposition to a proposed tax on sugary drinks, claims made by the government in support of the tax have not been so scrutinised. They should be, because according to research the government itself...
06 Sep KWV’s world-first wine wins global innovation award
KWV's innovative, preservative-free Pinotage, Earth's Essence, has found more acclaim with a global food award presented by IUFoST, the International Union of Food Science and Technology.
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06 Sep SA début for the water enhancement category
South Africa has been slow to get into the water enhancement category - but that's now changed with a new range launched by East London fruit beverage company, Elvin.
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01 Sep SA’s proposed sugar tax: checking claims about calories & job losses
South Africans may be paying more for sugary drinks if a proposed sugar tax is introduced. Will the implications be as far reaching as the soft drink industry claims? AFRICA CHECK investigated.
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24 Aug Sugar tax would have dire economic consequences, Bevsa says
The proposed levy on sugar-sweetened beverages could cost SA R14bn and destroy 10,000 small businesses, with highly uncertain benefits in terms of tax revenue and health benefits, the Beverage Association of SA (Bevsa) has claimed.
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22 Aug SA brandy: from cheap prop to classy flyer
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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18 Aug Starbucks announces location for SA shop #3
Taste Holdings and Starbucks have announced the location of their third store in South Africa...
18 Aug Taxing sugar producers would be sweetest solution
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...
17 Aug Local wine industry blooms as world seeks more SA wines
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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17 Aug Beverage association study says sugar tax could cost 70,000 jobs
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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10 Aug Countdown to fdt-Africa 2016 expo
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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03 Aug How four cousins made wine a classless drink
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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03 Aug SA’s sugar tax = soda wars?
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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13 Jul CGCSA: Sugar tax poses ‘real and unforeseen risks’
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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12 Jul OP-ED: Nanny Gordhan’s sugar tax-grab
The nannies in government are falling over themselves trying to regulate what South Africans may or may not eat. Pravin Gordhan, who is in charge of tax collection, is the latest to wage a war against a major food ingredient. This time the victim is...
12 Jul New range of live probiotic drinks hits SA shelves
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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12 Jul PepsiCo’s new Zimbabwean plant: to open with a presidential twist
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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