13 Oct The most popular consumer trend
Mintel reports that "A Simple Balance for Health" is currently the most used and read consumer trend on Mintel Inspire. What this means, says the international research company, is that more of its clients from around the world are looking at this than any...
12 Oct Important food matters under the spotlight at CGCSA annual conference
The Consumer Goods Council of SA held its annual conference recently, and it dealt with many matters of prime interest and concern to food industrialists, notably the implementation of the Consumer Protection Act, SA's new food labelling regulations and the "non-negotiable" that is food product...
12 Oct Blowing the lid off SA food labelling
D-Day for the new labelling regulations is fast approaching (March 2012). R146, as the legislation is named, was part of the proceedings at the October annual conference of the Consumer Goods Council of SA. Yolande van der Riet, Nutritional Specialist with the CGCSA's Food Safety...
11 Oct Radical rethinking on antioxidants
In the US alone, sales of top antioxidant supplements hit $5 billion last year, and they are commonly added as a functional benefit to everything from water and cereal to alcoholic drinks. But researchers now say antioxidants have been overhyped and widely misunderstood. Scientists...
10 Oct Drinking in Anuga 2011
Day Two of this amazing expo. The official visitor figures are put at 150 000 people over five days, but such is the density of bipods on KolnMesse's acres, they must surely all be here today.
Sunday's allocated task is to tackle Hall 8: Drinks....
10 Oct Drinking in Anuga 2011
Day Two of this amazing expo. The official visitor figures are put at 150 000 people over five days, but such is the density of bipods on KolnMesse's acres, they must surely all be here today.
Sunday's allocated task is to tackle Hall 8: Drinks....
08 Oct Anuga 2011 Blog – Day One at the World’s Greatest Food Fair
Grey skies and drizzle greeted the hordes who made their way into the massive KolnMesse for the start of Anuga 2011 - appropriately, perhaps, ending the unusual Indian summer enjoyed by much of Europe and heralding five days of hard work and business for some...
08 Oct Anuga 2011 Blog – Day One at the World’s Greatest Food Fair
Grey skies and drizzle greeted the hordes who made their way into the massive KolnMesse for the start of Anuga 2011 - appropriately, perhaps, ending the unusual Indian summer enjoyed by much of Europe and heralding five days of hard work and business for some...
06 Oct Anuga 2011: Setting the scene
This year Anuga will demonstrate its international expertise for the food sector for the 31st time. With 6 596 suppliers on a gross exhibition space of 284 000 m², the trade fair is booked out. Anuga 2011 will be opened by Dr. Guido Westerwelle, the...
05 Oct Denmark introduces fat tax
Denmark has imposed a “fat tax” on foods with a high saturated fat content, such as butter and oil, as a way to curb unhealthy eating habits. The Nordic country introduced the tax on October 1, of 16 kroner ($3.00) per kilogram...
30 Sep Ad industry unites against proposed alcohol ban
Members of the advertising industry have come together in an effort to prevent the government's proposed ban on alcohol advertising....
23 Sep The hypocritical attack on processed food
The processed food industry today finds itself under constant and ridiculous, Luddite-like attack as popular media and the food police warn consumers only to eat food that is unprocessed, organic, authentic, real, natural, local, preservative-free, additive-free etc. This gem of an article...
23 Sep A new way to have a restaurant experience at home
23 Sep A new way to have a restaurant experience at home
22 Sep Novozymes pioneers food-energy venture in Mozambique
Novozymes and environmental venture group, CleanStar Ventures, are to jointly establish an integrated food-energy business in Mozambique that will replace thousands of charcoal-burning cookstoves with cleaner ethanol stoves.
...22 Sep Kerry buys Cargill flavour arm for €168m
Irish food and ingredients group, Kerry, has agreed a deal to buy Cargill's global flavour business for $230m (€168m). In July, Kerry had said it was in exclusive talks with Cargill to acquire the flavours business which have now culminated in the...
22 Sep Cheers to 50 years of SAB and Ogilvy
SAB and its key ad agency, Ogilvy, enjoyed a mutual love-in recently in celebration of a 50-year old business relationship. But, asks journalist, Christine Greyvenstein of Coup Magazine, what makes a business relationship work? Better yet, what makes a business relationship work for 50...
22 Sep Arsenic and apple juice stir in the US
A new, probably overblown drama has broken out for the American food industry: allegations of unsafe levels of arsenic in apple juice, courtesy of Dr Oz - the cardiothoracic surgeon, author, talk show host, and commentator for his The Dr Oz Show, a daily...
22 Sep UN urges reductions in fats, salt, sugar
The United Nations has adopted a political declaration on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke, chronic respiratory disease and cancer - decided at its High Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)...
22 Sep Vegemite lands Kevin Rudd in trouble at US Customs
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