SA's WINE and hospitality industry has attracted the attention of Indian billionaire Analjit Singh (59), who has bought three adjoining Franschhoek farms as well as a substantial stake in Mullineux Family Wines, which is Platter's Winery of the Year for 2013.
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Former SABMiller executive, Richard Rushton, has taken over the reins of Distell this month, succeeding long-serving Jan Scannell as MD.
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November has seen the launch by Coca-Cola South Africa of the hugely-successful international "Share a Coke" campaign - and has inspired hordes of people to seek out 550ml Coke bottles and 330ml cans with their names on them.
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Nampak Glass has become the first company in South Africa to win ISO 50001: 2011 certification, the energy management standard, as audited and certified by SGS South Africa.
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Mauricio Leyva is not a man to be overwhelmed by tradition. He appears to have given little thought to the fact that he is the first non-South African to head up a local company that can, at a stretch, trace its origins back to 1895.
...Looking to boost the deserved reputation of premium South African wines, top-notch independent wineries in the Western Cape are collaborating through PIWOSA, Premium Independent Winemakers of South Africa, to boost their wine sales in the UK; SA’s leading wine export market.
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SAB’s World of Beer has announced the winners of the inaugural South African National Craft Brewers Championship. [Interesting move for SAB to award and recognise its competition, albeit tiny! Ed]
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Moralistic busybodies can all rattle off reasons why alcohol is bad. They’d ban it, if they hadn’t learnt the hard way that prohibition turned out to be counter-productive. So they go after alcohol advertising instead. It may or may not help some people, but it...
Every two years, the Packaging Council of South Africa (PACSA) names its ‘Packaging Achiever’ – an accolade that’s traditionally presented at IPSA’s biennial Gold Pack Awards (announced late October). This is a significant honour and this year’s winner is Jeremy Mackintosh, MD of Polyoak Packaging,...
South Africa's packaging Oscars were announced last night at a gala function in Jo'burg - and the ultimate winner is the world’s first multi-functional two-piece injection moulded closure for spice bottles! See all the beverage category winners...
In a first for the South African beer category, SAB has introduced a new brand, Flying Fish Premium Flavoured Beer.
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Leave the mountains and valleys of the Western Cape which are the heart and soul of the South African wine industry and travel north-east towards the green fields of KwaZulu-Natal - where three new vineyards have produced their first vintage.
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A legendary brand within SA's white spirits category, Distell has launched two new Mainstay line extensions, a super-premium vodka, Mainstay 54 Island Vodka, as well as a flavoured derivative, Mainstay Fusion. [Click pic to enlarge]
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Tetra Pak has appointed Penny Ntuli as cluster leader communications for sub-Sahara Africa. Ntuli brings over 16 years of media and communication experience, a combination of both public and private organisations, to her role.
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RIEBEEK Retail Brands is on a mission to grow its South African market share in the alcoholic fruit beverage (FAB) category via innovative product concepts, flavours and carton packaging. [Click pic to enlarge]
Dave Steward, executive director of the FW de Klerk Foundation, and Leon Louw, co-founder of the Free Market Foundation, have expressed concern about the "tsunami" of health regulations and laws Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi is promoting: the draft bill banning alcohol advertising, draft regulations...
DESPITE difficult economic conditions, South Africans are not shying away from drinking premium alcohol brands. Top whisky brands experienced substantial growth last year from the previous year and that trend is set to continue.
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After the successful launch of its products in Europe earlier this year, fast-track home-grown organic ice tea brand, BOS, sees scope to expand into the rest of Africa.
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In reaction to Cabinet's okay to the Control of Marketing of Alcohol Beverages Bill, the liquor industry says it is gearing up for a major fight.
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Amarula is the only South African brand to make it on to the list of the world's top 100 premium spirits brands in terms of volumes sold, according to Impact Databank, a US-based company that is a leading source for drinks statistics and analysis. The...