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The world's first virtual grocery store, by Tesco, opened in the Seoul subway last year and was recently named ‘Business Innovation of the Year’ at the prestigious World Retail Awards in London. Now they're are popping up in the US and the UK. Peapod.com, America's...
From 0$ to $100-million in less than a year. It has to be the FMCG success story of the decade thus far. It's the story of Kraft Foods' Mio, the flavoured water enhancer that gave birth to a whole new beverage category, largely thanks to...
In an industry with few new stories left to tell, a small US company named GreenDustries is making a big name by aiming to revolutionise the food service packaging industry with two proprietary fast food packages: the PleatPak (for burgers and...
What country chews the most gum? If you guessed the United States, you're wrong. The distinction of biggest chewing gum chewers goes to the Middle East, specifically Iran, followed closely by Saudi Arabia. The US is a distant third when it comes to chewing gum...
Meet Zong Qinghou. He started hawking drinks outside a school 25 years ago, and has since become China's wealthiest man as founder and chairman of the Wahaha beverage group that's now searching for acquisitions beyond China, particularly in Japan and Africa. Notoriously, his joint...
Volumes in the US retail frozen foods market are going backwards, according to a new report from Packaged Facts, with category decline being blamed on a series of factors from misconceptions about the merits of frozen vs fresh prepared food, to lacklustre merchandising.
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The latest news reports on a study about salt intake among American children are enough to scare any parent. The take-home message from these stories is clear: kids need to cut down on salt or they will suffer serious health consequences. It's a compelling argument....
Middle-aged people will be able to grow old gracefully within a generation by taking a pill which can fight the ageing process and illnesses associated with it, an eminent British scientist predicts....
Billions of people around the world today will unknowingly perform a chemical reaction first reported 100 years ago. And the centennial of the Maillard reaction — which gives delightful flavour to foods ranging from grilled meat to baked bread to coffee but also has some...
We reported earlier how a private-public partnership between Foodcorp and the local municipality has saved the historic Eastern Cape town of Molteno. The company has now issued a press release expanding detail on this heart-warming story.
Organic has long since become an ideology, the romantic back-to-nature obsession of an upper middle class able to afford it and oblivious, in their affluent narcissism, to the challenge of feeding a planet whose population will surge to 9 billion before the...
Some call it a trick. Others say its sly marketing. Either way, a new study shows that if we make vegetables sound exciting, kids will eat them. Basically, the thinking goes, since it works for junk food, why not try it for healthy food too?...
Cadbury has won a lengthy battle over rival Nestlé to protect its distinctive purple it uses to package and market its milk chocolate....
Mondelez International/Kraft has launched a new Cadbury chocolate bar aimed at women in an attempt to win back lost sales among the diet-conscious.
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Food prices are set to increase by about 10 percent before the end of November as SA’s major food producers take strain from rising input costs.
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As food prices soar because of the ailing global and domestic economies, South Africans should also start worrying about the availability of something to eat....
Pick n Pay Stores has announced that, after an extensive international search, it has appointed Richard Brasher, the former Tesco board member, as Pick n CEO effective from February 2013....
It’s hard to believe, but breakfast cereal is no longer convenient enough. Consumers increasingly demand breakfast options that are more convenient and easy to eat on-the-go. For companies willing to innovate, this is creating some amazing – and profitable – opportunities, reports New Nutrition Business.
It’s hard to believe, but breakfast cereal is no longer convenient enough. Consumers increasingly demand breakfast options that are more convenient and easy to eat on-the-go. For companies willing to innovate, this is creating some amazing – and profitable – opportunities, reports New Nutrition Business.
In just four years a start-up American company has achieved what much bigger companies have spent over a decade trying – and failing – to do: create awareness of protein in the mass market as a health ingredient. And the most important fact that everyone...