30 Nov UK pop idol’s beverage hits the mark
Winning the accolade, 'Best New Beverage Concept' at World Beverage Innovation Awards 2016 earlier this year, was Cuppanut, a new brand of coconut teas. Here's the story behind the product...
15 Nov ‘Clean Supreme’ leads Innova’s Top Trends for 2017
Growing calls for transparency throughout the supply chain are taking clean and clear label to a new and supreme level. This comes as the inherent benefits of plant-based products are being active marketed to a more health conscious consumers. “Clean Supreme” and “Disruptive Green” lead...
09 Nov UK: Waitrose identifies key food and drink trends
In a newly released Food & Drink 2016 report, Waitrose has identified four broad trends highlighting how what we eat is increasingly becoming a way of expressing who we are and tips a number of trends to watch for the year ahead. [Great insights and...
26 Oct US liquor trending: lighter libations
Taking their cue from the success of carbonated waters and seltzers, alcohol brands are cutting calories.
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26 Oct Why craft is the US liquor industry’s next big thing
The US spirits industry is seeing a craft movement take hold across bars and retail outlets in a way that could mirror the success craft brewers.
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10 Oct The maturation of craft beer
The European and US craft beer sector has exploded in the last ten years – in fact micro is now mainstream, as highlighted by recent acquisitions of craft brewers by the big players in the industry.
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10 Oct Defining coffee’s waves of innovation
The US/the world is currently in the third wave coffee movement, but what exactly are these “waves”? Mintel’s expert analysts share a brief history of the different coffee waves and their predictions on what’s to come.
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10 Oct How the business of bottled water went mad
How did a substance that falls from the air, springs from the earth and comes out of your tap become a hyperactive multibillion-dollar business?
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06 Oct Wine in smaller packages is the next big thing
There’s a growing trend in the world of wine that many wine producers have been slow to catch up to. It doesn’t have anything to do with grapes, blends or finishes. It has to do with size, asserts a senior Tetra Pak marketing executive.
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28 Sep Coca-Cola’s One Brand strategy plays out in SA
Coca-Cola's new global marketing approach aims to incorporate all of Coca-Cola's variants under the same brand, making consumers aware of the entire trademark and particularly the low kilojoule variants. All three phases of the campaign are said to be underway in SA.
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21 Sep Tetra Pak Juice Index: consumers trending toward natural, healthy and tasty juice
The latest issue of the annual Tetra Pak Index is focused exclusively on 100% juice for the first time. The report identifies consumer trends driving new growth opportunities for producers around the world.
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21 Sep Will banana milk be the next dairy alternative craze?
From lattes in trendy coffee shops to standalone products from companies like WhiteWave, banana milk could be the latest dairy alternative craze to disrupt an increasingly fragmented industry.
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06 Sep US: The frozen concentrated orange-juice market has virtually disappeared
The once-thriving market for frozen orange-juice concentrate is getting squeezed - by disease, waning demand and the weather.
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06 Sep Energy drink launches grow 29% in five years
New research from Mintel reveals standout results for global energy drink innovation.
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18 Aug The future of tea: Tetley’s top five predictions
From teas enriched with medicines to programmable tea taps, the humble brew could see a dramatic evolution over the coming years, says Tetley. Even the concept of tea consumed as a liquid could be challenged.
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11 Aug UK: Younger consumers eschew tea for multiple reasons
With National Afternoon Tea Week steaming ahead this week In the UK (8th-14th August), new research from Mintel indicates that older consumers may be the first to clink their cups and saucers in celebration.
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11 Aug Sherry makes comeback
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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03 Aug Courting consumers with ‘healthier’ alcoholic drinks
Spirits companies and brewers are rolling out vegan, all-natural, gluten-free and non-alcoholic offerings, as consumer preferences shift.
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30 Jun Absolut Vodka: Absolutely amazing marketing
How did an up-tight, state-run liquor monopoly in Sweden — a country which restricts booze ads to matchboxes — once own one of the hippest, most successful spirits brands in the world? And how did the Swedes pull this off with Russia's national drink?
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22 Jun US: Nutritional and performance drinks growing as breakfast replacement
Two in five US consumers are replacing their breakfast with nutritional and performance drinks, finds a new Mintel study.
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