Sherry, once the go-to aperitif for the English tea-drinking classes, has been making a comeback, against the odds, and with such dramatic force that the power of its appeal needs understanding and interpretation, writes Michael Fridjohn.
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Spirits companies and brewers are rolling out vegan, all-natural, gluten-free and non-alcoholic offerings, as consumer preferences shift.
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Two in five US consumers are replacing their breakfast with nutritional and performance drinks, finds a new Mintel study.
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Demystification and democratisation initiatives will allow the wine category to breathe and venture out of its stuffy cellar of complacency and stiff traditionalism, contends Euromonitor analyst, Spiros Malandrakis, in his usual rather-literary style!
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Budweiser, the so-called King of Beers, may be on its last kegs, the victim of distruptive technology and fast-track brands. Never?! Never say never...
While dairy alternative drinks account for a relatively limited 6% share of total global dairy launches recorded by Innova Market Insights in 2015, the market has seen ongoing penetration outside its more traditional Asian market.
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While America’s non-alcoholic beverage market is shifting in favour of better-for-you alternatives, new research from Mintel reveals that taste/flavour (72%) is by far the main influencer for consumers, with health/nutritional attributes (21%) and functional attributes (16%) far less influential.
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Natural ingredients. Soda’s decline. The rise of energy drinks, dairy alternatives, and ready-to-drink tea and coffee — manufacturers are already aware of major movements sweeping through the beverage industry. But lesser-known trends are poised to be just as disruptive.
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The reinvention of rosé continues apace, with superior grapes, innovative production methods and sustainable sourcing all bidding to capture consumer imagination in an increasingly crowded and fashionable category. The message from the market’s new releases is clear: pink is premium, but the rosé category’s rebrand...
There are food-bev companies where the directors and shareholders still believe that their business teams must look for new “high volume opportunities”. Believe no more, asserts UK trends thinktank on food and health, New Nutrition Business.
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Jo'burg drinks development consultancy, Slo-Jo, works with most of SA's top restaurant chains in keeping their drinks menus fresh and appetising. Trend watching is key in its business - and here is Slo-Jo's take on taste trends for 2016, mainly in the context for SA's...
The beverage business is undergoing radical change. New Nutrition Business forecast last year that “juice and smoothies are going to follow colas and other carbonates onto the path of a long slow decline”. And already it’s clear that if you follow its suggestion that “the...
Dandelion coffee is the "it" drink, so if you were just about to hop on the matcha bandwagon — so 2015 — don’t bother.
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In a sector dominated by PET and glass to a much lesser extent, research company Canadean reports that metals cans have the highest growth by volume out of all packaging formats in the packaged water category, with the success of flavoured sparkling water driving growth...
Euromonitor recently released new data for soft drinks and the results show 2015 as the slowest year for global carbonates growth in all of its historic data set. Hear more here...
Sugar is starting to be perceived in much the same way as smoking when it comes to health. This will have an impact on food and beverage brands with a high sugar content, reports the Financial Mail.
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Firmenich, the world’s largest privately-owned company in the fragrance and flavour business, has announced coconut as its "Flavour of the Year" for 2016.
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Fruit and vegetable juice blends have been popular in Western markets for many years now, but recent innovations have pushed vegetables to the front of bottles. This comes as fruit juice’s health halo is slipping as it faces growing pressure for its “hidden” sugar content,...
The global spirits market is forecast to grow by almost 122m nine-litre cases between 2014 and 2020 to surpass 3.2bn cases by 2020, according to the latest forecast data from the IWSR, a leading source of analysis on the alcoholic beverage market.
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The movement towards healthier lifestyles is an overarching trend that has, for several years, been impacting the British food and drink space and is becoming increasingly apparent within the hot drinks category. As this trend has evolved through changing consumer attitudes towards health, so has...