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While male consumers are clearly an attractive segment for marketers, health and wellness related products and services are competing with lifestyle pressures including time constraints, an array of unhealthy foods, smoking levels among global youth, and sedentary work cultures. Some insights from a new Euromonitor...
A shortage of liquidity has proven transformative not just for Greek banks, but also for Greek yogurt. The thick, protein rich version of the North American breakfast staple, which is strained to remove excess liquid, has upended a previously stable segment of the food industry...
Nestlé's global CEO, Paul Bulcke, was recently in SA to cut the ribbon on the giant's new factories in Babelegi, Hammanskraal, a R500m investment. While here, he was asked and answered some questions...
One of the smallest food companies on the JSE, AH-Vest (formerly All Joy), has had a change of control that might lay the foundations for a new consumer brands conglomerate, reports the Financial Mail....
Confectionery giant Mars is set to launch a slimmer sister to its trademark Mars bar in the UK next month, with a new caramel only version containing 20% less calories....
South Africa is mulling retaliatory measures to protect its centuries-old wine industry and counter job losses caused by a British retailers’ move to buy the product in bulk rather than in bottles, a trade official has said. ...
By altering the fine balance of gut bacteria which influence our metabolism, even small amounts of the drugs entering the food chain could have caused obesity rates to rise, researchers claim....
Tesco, the UK’s biggest supermarket, will introduce a ‘traffic light’ food labelling system after finally bowing to pressure from shoppers....
A solution may be at hand for the number one consumer gripe about one of the world's favourite fruits ― bananas and their tendency to all-too-quickly ripen, soften and rot into an unappetising mush....
With 1.3 billion tons of food trashed, dumped in landfills and otherwise wasted around the world every year, comes news of the development and successful laboratory testing of a new "biorefinery" intended to change food waste into a key ingredient for making plastics, laundry detergents...
Although they’re heralded as an international delicacy and served in restaurants across the world, snails have topped the list as the UK's most-hated food. Tripe, oysters, squid and anchovies also made up the top end of the ‘gastro-dislike’ list in a new research report....
The United Nations, aid agencies and the British Government have lined up to attack the world's largest commodities trading company, Glencore, after it described the current global food crisis and soaring world prices as a "good" business opportunity....
The face of the SA grocery shopper today: the majority display strong store and brand loyalty in the face of rising food prices and economic uncertainty and they are reticent to make non-essential purchases, according to Nielsen's latest Shopper Trends Report.
...The face of the SA grocery shopper today: the majority display strong store and brand loyalty in the face of rising food prices and economic uncertainty and they are reticent to make non-essential purchases, according to Nielsen's latest Shopper Trends Report.
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Tiny tech is by no means purely industrial, as scientists incorporate nanotechnology into food at a rapid pace, for everything from making food taste saltier without using more salt to making it harder for the body to absorb cholesterol.
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As eating and shopping patterns change, the centre store, or those long, soldier-straight rows of shelves that have long been the heart of the American supermarket but are now showing signs of the grocery equivalent of atherosclerosis. These changes have threatening implications...
South Africa and Africa’s fast-growing middle class with money to spend is much in the news. Multinational food companies are making a big effort to tailor products for African customers — a great article on this topic from The Economist.
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Promising results are reported from a proof-of-concept clinical trial of an "anti-hunger" ingredient for yoghurt, fruit shakes, smoothies and other foods that would make people feel full longer and ease the craving to eat. Scientists described the ingredient, a new version of an ubiquitous food/pharma...
New evidence reveals the possibility of mood-enhancing effects associated with some flavours, stemming at least in part from natural ingredients bearing a striking chemical similarity to valproic acid, a widely used prescription mood-stabilising drug, scientists reported in Philadelphia. This effect joins those previously reported for...
By 2025, annual consumption in emerging markets will reach $30 trillion — the biggest growth opportunity in the history of capitalism. To compete for the prize, companies must master ten key disciplines. A noteworthy review in McKinsey Quarterly...