Stafford Bros & Draeger, with a tradition of introducing innovative and new food brands into the South African market, has recently launched Waistline, its new health food brand, kicking-off with a range of basmati rice cakes.

Amid the thousands, if not millions, of SKUs that were on show at Anuga 2011, how ironic that a South African product should rank as my "Best New Product of Anuga 2011". Taking as an objective a viewpoint as I could, and selecting it from among all the novel, new and different that I happened upon during my five days of trawling the show (you simply can never see all of Anuga), my award goes to...

Pioneer Foods has launched its Weet-Bix cereal, said to be SA's top cereal, in new bite-size format.

Gants has launched Gants Chunky Chicken, a range of canned, value-added chicken breast, some interesting innovation in the canned sector and believed to be a first for a local manufacturer.