Historically carbonates have led global soft drinks consumption, but according to Canadean’s latest forecasts, 2015 will see packaged water overtake carbonates.
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Do you want to impress guests with a bottle of vintage wine, but can't afford the hefty price tag? Just buy a cheap one and tell them it's expensive, and they'll enjoy it more.
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A group of American craft brewers has discovered that revenge is both sweet and a dish best served cold. More specifically, for a nationwide group of breweries led by the acclaimed Bell's Brewery of Kalamazoo, Michigan, revenge is an...
The way at-home soda brewers are ratcheting up their offers, you'd never guess "The Soda Industry is Dying," as NASDAQ declared recently on the heels of a report that carbonated-soft-drink sales were down in 2014 for the 10th year in a row. Instead, the makers...
Nederburg is telling it like it is in a series of short little videos that lets consumers into a behind-the-scenes look at what actually goes on at harvest time. Housed on Nederburg's Youtube channel, www.youtube.com/user/NederburgWine, it shows the sweat, the tears, the drama, and...
UHT milk sales by volume garnered 53% of market share in 2013, outstripping demand for chilled milk for the first time in South Africa, a growing popularity that can be attributed to numerous factors, reports Penny Ntuli, communications director for Tetra Pak South Africa.
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There's the smart phone. And the smart refrigerator. There's even the smart toothbrush. Now alcoholic beverage giant Diageo, with the help of a digital technology specialist, has created the "smart" Johnnie Walker Blue Label bottle.
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Has the craft beer boom reached its peak? Will “speers” be the next big thing in beer, and have non-alcohol beers finally lost their stigma? Two months into 2015, Spiros Malandrakis, senior alcoholic drinks analyst at Euromonitor International, takes a look at emerging trends in...
A new wine brand, launched at the end of 2014, has already raised over R100 000 for the war against rhino poaching within South Africa's national parks. The Rhino Tears range of wines from the Mt Vernon estate in Cape Town donates proceeds from every...
Despite rising levels of interest in recent years, ready-to-drink (RTD) or iced teas only accounted for a relatively modest 7.5% share of global soft drinks launches recorded by Innova Market Insights in 2014. Developments included the launch of more sophisticated products in relatively established markets,...
Americans want to cut back on soda, and they're willing to pay more to do it. With people drinking less soda amid health concerns, Coke and Pepsi are pushing smaller cans and bottles that contain fewer calories and, they say, induce less guilt. That all...
Coca-Cola will mark the 100th year of its iconic bottle with a global ad campaign in more than 100 countries.
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Protein has become a buzz word in the food and beverage industry. It's up there with gluten-free, non-GMO and all natural. Consumers crave it and brands are launching new products and re-branding existing SKUs to feature the protein claim more prominently on the front label....
After several years of losing ground to craft brewers, Anheuser-Busch, America's biggest brewery, seems to be not only conceding but leveraging the fact that its flagship brew does not fly with fans of fancy suds.
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Is this a sign that bag-in-box wine has finally 'arrived'? BiBoViNo is a high end, French bag-in-box-only wine retailer that's got big ambitions for global growth.
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Taste has seldom been an important aspect of energy drinks or shots, but it's clearly an issue that's been giving the owners of 5-hour Energy some headaches - they've now announced a reformulation to make it more yummy and less medicinal.
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The end/start of a year always brings voluminous trend insights and predictions — from research companies, newspapers, chefs, flavour-makers, food companies, bloggers...
Right now, there’s a product in America growing at an astronomical rate. In the past three years, its market share has surged more than fivefold. While this product is anything but new, it's now recovering from a near-death experience and, in fact, is making a...
PepsiCo is trying out a fruit-flavoured water brand called Drinkfinity developed in Brazil and initially only available in that country. The company refers to the new product as a "personal and portable hydration system", consisting of pods that are inserted into the top of a...
Every segment of the bottled water industry is growing and the category is currently the most successful in the mass-market beverage in the US, says the Beverage Marketing Corporation, a leading US management consulting and research firm.
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