23 Feb Stores of the future: wired and connected to shoppers
23 Feb Food safety: Choosing a certification body
The choice of a certification body is one of the most importance strategic decisions that an organisation can make when it comes to their food safety/quality programmes. In the wake of some recent turmoil in the certification arena locally, here are some of...
22 Feb WikiCells: food packaging you can eat
Professor David Edwards is at it again. Having already developed creations that include inhalable chocolate, inhalable caffeine, and a tuberculosis vaccine in the form of a spray, the innovative biomedical engineer from Harvard is now introducing WikiCells: a new edible packaging...
22 Feb The reinvention of SodaStream
22 Feb La Montanara cheesemaker wins Woolworths Cheese Makers Challenge
The inaugural Woolworths Cheese Makers Challenge has been won by dairy farmer, turned cheese maker, Eckard Leicher of La Montanara, a small cheesery near Ashton in the Breede River valley, with his Royal Ashton, a Maasdam-type cheese with a sweet, nutty flavour....
22 Feb Will the weight fall off if you cut calories? Slim chance, say scientists
Bad news for people trying to lose weight. A new assessment of how the body responds to dieting shows that it is about twice as difficult as previously thought to shed fat....
21 Feb Kerry Ingredients & Flavours acquires Durban-based FlavourCraft
Kerry Ingredients & Flavours today confirmed that is has completed the acquisition of the Durban-based flavours company, FlavourCraft, for an undisclosed sum. This sees Kerry expand its presence not just in South Africa, serving food manufacturers in the country, but across the African continent....
17 Feb Chicken dumping fee to hit consumers
The chicken market has been in the headlines this week over alleged dumping by Brazilian producers. SARS has imposed a provisional levy on Brazilian chicken following an investigation by the International Trade and Administration Commission (Itac) which found that some Brazilian companies had dumped...
17 Feb US: The beverage wars move to coconuts
Soda sales are flat and the beverage industry is looking for its next big thing. Increasingly, it is turning to the coconut. Touted as a natural sports drink that helps tired bodies rehydrate, coconut water is hitting a growing number of US store shelves, whether...
16 Feb The 2011 FoodBev.com Awards
The winners (and finalists) of the FoodBev.com Awards 2011 have been announced ...
16 Feb Mars to put its chocolate on a diet
Mars, the maker of Snickers and Twix candy bars, will stop selling chocolate products with more than 250 calories (1 047kj) in them by the end of next year, a spokeswoman said this week....
16 Feb Woolies to open full-line supermarkets
Upmarket retailer Woolworths will try to woo its well-heeled customers into buying more than just meat and fresh produce from its stores by introducing more categories and bulk value buys in its new full-line supermarkets....
16 Feb Healthy growth in the ‘free from’ markets, says new report
The market for ‘free from’ foods shows strong growth in the US and Western Europe according to new research from Leatherhead Food Research, a leading UK-based independent research organisation....
16 Feb Dispelling five common consumer food safety myths
We all know that you have to cook pork until it's grey, that you can't leave anything with mayonnaise out for too long, and that a quick whiff tells you if food's gone bad. Except that each of those 'facts' is wrong. Food safety experts...
16 Feb New cider makes a debut
Stellen Fine Wines has entered the competitive cider market with the launch of a new cider, Tell's. According to Distell, cider is the fastest-growing alcoholic beverage, outpacing the growth in beer, wines, spirits and flavoured alcoholic beverages. Datamonitor reports that in 2010 the cider market...
16 Feb New cider makes a debut
Stellen Fine Wines has entered the competitive cider market with the launch of a new cider, Tell's. According to Distell, cider is the fastest-growing alcoholic beverage, outpacing the growth in beer, wines, spirits and flavoured alcoholic beverages. Datamonitor reports that in 2010 the...
16 Feb Way Better – inside Clover’s rebranding
Branded foods and beverages company, Clover, recently launched the “Way Better” campaign to communicate its new brand positioning statement to consumers. Fast-moving interviewed Clover’s Brands and Marketing Executive, Dr Chris Lerm, about the general intricacies of re-branding and the best steps an FMCG company should...
16 Feb Kellogg buys Pringles brand after Diamond Foods bows out
The cereals giant Kellogg hopes to add some more snap, crackle and pop to its financial results with the acquisition of Pringles. The $2.7bn (£1.7bn) deal adds the famous tubes of saddle-shaped crisps into a portfolio that includes Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Rice...
15 Feb Top ten wine myths that won’t die
Even if wine has become more and more demystified and accessible over the past several years -- there are still a few lingering myths out there. This article debunks some of the common ones...
14 Feb British beef set to return to SA shelves
A UK trade mission is hoping to convince South Africans to once again serve up British beef on their plates, after a 15-year ban on its products was lifted at the end of last year....
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