Amarula, a local premium brand that's now a global sensation, celebrates its 25th birthday this year. Fitting for this milestone, Distell has launched Amarula Gold, a super-smooth, sophisticated premium spirit with a bold new taste.
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Rabobank has published a new report on the global wine industry, looking at issues of supply, demand and pricing in key markets worldwide, particularly South Africa. It notes that both bulk and bottled wine exports from South Africa enjoyed strong growth in 2013.
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When it comes to creative expression, no brand quite does it like Absolut Vodka. For decades the brand has had its finger on the pulse of contemporary culture, pushing boundaries and recognising milestones in unique and inspired manners. Its latest example is the launch of...
For more than a decade, Africa’s Big Seven (AB7,) a food and beverage trade show in Africa, has provided a networking platform and product showcase for producers, manufacturers and suppliers to penetrate lucrative African markets. AB7 2014 takes place from 22 – 24 June at...
Both the wine and brandy markets have been very tough in recent years, which then beg the question of how Stellenbosch-based liquor conglomerate, Distell, has managed find such consistent profits?
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Marking the end of a 35-year tenure at the world’s second-largest brewer, SABMiller, Norman Adami will stand down as chairman of the group’s SA operations when he retires in July, the company has announced. He will be succeeded by the MD of the group’s SA...
South African Breweries (SAB) has given its Hansa Pilsener brand a packaging make-over, in celebration of 20 years of freedom in South Africa. [Click pic to enlarge]
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Clover has entered into a joint venture with Durban's fast-track functional food company, Futurelife, to launch a new range of functional food products, kicking off with a ready-to-drink version of Futurelife’s low GI cereal product
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Paul Raphaely, co-founder of chic foodie company, NoMU, is putting some of his boundless creative energies into a new mission: promoting SA's packaging design and supply sectors. His vehicle, which includes a website and portal, has the funky name of The Lucky Budgie...
SA's Department of Health is giving consideration to a "sugar tax" to encourage South Africans to consume less of the sweet stuff, according to head of non-communicable diseases, Prof Melvyn Freeman.
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There is no denying South Africa’s long love affair with beer. With well over 100 different kinds added to the national beer menu in recent years, beer lovers have plenty more reasons to toast. But even with their growing popularity, choosing any of the many...
Jo'burg has a new and its first bubble tea franchise called 'Happy.me' - recently founded by entrepreneur Jan Roode. "Happy.me is the next generation of beverages," he says.
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The conference programme for food & drink technology Africa has been scheduled. The new event, organised by Messe München International and its subsidiary MMI South Africa, will premier in Johannesburg on March 18 and 19, 2014 at Gallagher Convention Centre.
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Fast-track BOS Brands has entered the sports drink arena with the launch of rooibos-based BOS Sport. The product reinforces its philosophy of creating healthy, colourant free and preservative free beverages - using only natural flavours and premium ingredients. [Click pic to enlarge]
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Graham Mackay used to say his performance review as CEO of SABMiller was simple, and available for everyone to examine: the company's share price, which grew from R50 in early 2003, to R537 in early 2014. Journalist, David Williams, pays tribute.
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Many shareholders in Pioneer Foods may need to pluck up their courage to participate in the unbundling and separate listing of its poultry and egg business, Quantum Foods, later this year. The poultry industry is not having a good time. On the other hand, the...
Graham Mackay, the man credited for turning SABMiller into the world’s second-largest brewer, died on December 18, 2013, at the age of 64, after battling a brain tumour.
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South Africa’s iconic winemakers have come together in a rare display of unity to create a new association intended to build South Africa’s reputation as a producer of world-class wines and promote the Cape’s unique wine heritage.
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Soweto Gold – Superior Lager was released into retail at Shoprite Liquor Diepkloof at the beginning of December 2013 and sold out within the first day of launch.
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The price of rooibos tea will rise by 15 percent from January next year because of supply constraints and growing demand, producer Rooibos Limited has said.
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