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5-Hour Energy, the two-ounce (60ml) caffeine and vitamin elixir that purports to keep you alert without crashing. In eight years 5-Hour has gone from nowhere to $1 billion in retail sales. Truckers swear by it. So do the traders in Oliver Stone’s 2010 sequel to...
McCain Foods, the frozen food manufacturer, has embarked on an appropriately winter-warming outdoor campaign for its new baked potatoes - tempting UK consumers with the smell of baked potatoes at ten bus stops around the country as part of its £1.4m push for Ready Made...
A new group chief brewer has been appointed at SABMiller to replace the present one, Barry Axcell, who plans to retire in July, the company reports....
From obesity to cancer to Taliban terrorism, the food and beverage industry seems to get blamed for all of this world's ills. OK, maybe not the Taliban, but for just about everything else, the modern diet and processed foods are fingered as...
Preparing for the worst under the European Union’s uber-strict health claims regime, a Danone spokesman says the company may have to concede defeat and that the world’s highest-selling functional food category could disappear altogether....
What is RRSHS? And why is it so bad for you? RRSHS refers to Relative Risk Scary Headline Syndrome: why bore people with a sober assessment of how likely something is to kill them when you can scream a terrifying figure at them instead? RRSHS,...
Red Bull has received approval from Brazil's state development council for the installation of a soft drinks plant in the country, the first plant in the world to be fully owned by the Austrian energy drinks maker....
The energy drink world has long been dominated by Red Bull, with Monster forever lingering in second place. But there's another caffeine-packed beverage that's rising to the top tier: Rockstar....
Most South Africans living in urban areas believe that their tap water is safe to drink, a study commissioned by the Water Research Commission (WRC) and the South African Local Government Association has found....
The world's two super-cola powers, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, have outlined business plans this week to better compete against each other and please shareholders: both are looking at cutting costs dramatically while at the same time investing those saved millions into marketing...
The first issue of SAAFoST’s very own quarterly magazine, FST (South African Food Science and Technology)*, was mailed out to all SAAFoST members this week. Published in February, May, August and November FST is SAAFoST’s official mouthpiece and reflects its role as the primary association...
While researching one of its 2012 trends, Food as the New-Eco Issue — the idea that the environmental impact of our food choices will become a more prominent concern — JWT Intelligence interviewed Dan Crossley, principal sustainability adviser at Forum for the...
A year after pledging to develop a front-of-pack label that would give its customers an easier way to identify healthier food, Wal-Mart Stores has unveiled the "Great For You" icon. Part of the company's healthier food initiative, the icon is an effort to implement a...
Food labelling consultants, as well as many manufacturers and packaging vendors, are likely in a spin of busy-ness as March 1 approaches and R146 kicks into action. Two leading labelling experts, Nigel Sunley and Moira Byers of the Consulting in Food Labelling team, found some...
Food labelling consultants, as well as many manufacturers and packaging vendors, are likely in a spin of busy-ness as March 1 approaches and R146 kicks into action. Two leading labelling experts, Nigel Sunley and Moira Byers of the Consulting in Food Labelling team, found some...
Tesco has become the latest of the big chain grocery stores to try out new packaging that it hopes will keep its fresh lines fresh. The trials will begin with packaging for tomatoes and avocados as these are known to be the...
Nestlé South Africa has officially opened its tenth manufacturing facility in South Africa, a new coffee creamer factory in Potchefstroom, North West province. The new facility will manufacture Cremora coffee creamer, adding capacity to the existing creamer manufacturing facility in Babelegi,...
The FRUIT LOGISTICA Innovation Awards are an integral part of Fruit Logistica, the annual global trade show for fresh produce held annually in Berlin, attracting worldwide media interest. They are presented to honour outstanding innovations in the fresh produce sector and its service industries. Expo...
Studies have proven that pathogens such as Campylobacter and Salmonella contaminate a high percentage of raw chicken meat. Now, recent research from a food safety team at Pennsylvania's Drexel University offers proof-of-concept for what may one day be a common approach to preventing food-borne illness...
US food company, Hostess, the maker of the famous/infamous Twinkie, has been much in the headlines as it announced it would be filing for bankruptcy, a victim as much of its own business problems as well as changing consumer tastes. This TIME Top...