31 Mar McDonald’s starts table service in Germany
McDonald's is introducing table service in Germany as it reinvents itself as a "modern, progressive burger company" under new chief executive, Steve Easterbrook.
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31 Mar BRM Brands adds pulled pork to ready-cooked range
Pulled pork is a big culinary trend and foodie favourite across the world, and now Jo'burg-based RTE meat company, BRM Brands, has launched its own pulled pork product with, it says, a "distinctively South African-style".
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31 Mar Understanding the Kraft-Heinz merger: ‘Sleepy food giants must wake up or be gobbled up’
Many of America’s largest food companies have been caught napping and lost touch with tastes as we've all become more choosy...
31 Mar Is Mondelez the next takeover target?
When the former Kraft Foods split into two in late 2012, many analysts and investors predicted that both pieces would be takeover targets. The new Kraft Foods Group succumbed on March 25, gobbled up by seasoned cost-cutters 3G Capital, a Brazilian private-equity firm, and Warren...
30 Mar Trends in the South African meat market
As the average income in South Africa has risen steadily, meat consumption levels in the country have skyrocketed over the past two decades, according to the Euromonitor International category report of September 2014.
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30 Mar New cooking method reduces calories in rice considerably
Scientists have developed a new, simple way to cook rice that could cut the number of calories absorbed by the body by more than half, potentially reducing obesity rates, which is especially important in countries where the food is a staple.
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30 Mar Crumbs … Pioneer about to toss its biscuit business?
Cape Town-based consumer brands giant Pioneer Foods Group is looking very serious about cutting out operations that are not going to fatten up its operating margins. Next to go...
30 Mar EU: Abolition of milk quotas will create significant opportunities
This week, the EU milk quotas that were set in 1984 when there was a huge milk and butter surplus, will end. Many farmers and dairy cooperatives are looking forward to the change, which will lift any restriction on how much milk they produce.
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26 Mar Kraft and Heinz merger to create food giant
First it was Budweiser beer. Then came Burger King Whoppers. Next up was Heinz ketchup. Now 3G Capital, a Brazilian private investment group that already owns a suite of America's most prominent food and beverage brands, has struck a deal to take control of Kraft...
24 Mar Seeds of Disruption: How technology is remaking the future of food
In 2013, research group, The Institute for the Future (IFTF) in the US undertook a year-long exploration into the ways that emerging technologies and sciences are reshaping the global food web. It has created Seeds of...
24 Mar Official launch of new Food & Hospitality Africa expo
As we reported last December, Hostex and IFEA are merging into one hospitality-food show in May 2016. The organisers took the opportunity to officially launch the new event at last week's Hostex expo at the Sandton Convention Centre.
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24 Mar New food safety specialist for Consumer Goods Council’s food safety unit
Food safety expert, Dr Papiso Tshabalala, has been appointed to the Food Safety Initiative (FSI) business unit of the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa (CGCSA). She is on a mission to educate and train food handlers on the proper methods to prevent foodborne illnesses.
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23 Mar How sugar consumption will hurt the global economy
Sugar may not be so sweet when it comes to its effects on the world economy, conclude Morgan Stanley analysts in a new research report. They say that because health is a key driver of economic growth, rising diabetes and obesity rates cloud the outlook...
23 Mar OP-ED: Only China can save the seas
Next to climate change, disappearing ocean life is probably the world’s greatest environmental calamity. The long-proposed solutions: more catch limits on fisheries, new tools to limit by catch, and publicity campaigns to encourage the eating of only sustainable fishes...
23 Mar Stevia from fermentation: the threats and opportunities
By producing stevia through fermentation, hailed as the answer to its supply and taste problems, the industry risks losing its most promising natural sweetener - but this may create a new market for new niche stevia products, say analysts.
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23 Mar Taste over waste: ugly food movement winning friends
Consumer driven food trends are nothing new. “Organics”, gluten-free and buying “local” have all captured consumers, encouraging supermarkets around the globe and in Australia to respond. The latest impactful trend is “ugly food” - how are supermarkets and consumers reacting to this?
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23 Mar The reclusive SA entrepreneur who made R5bn from Nando’s
Long lines at Nando's, which opened its first eatery in South Africa in the late 1980s, are a common sight at outlets far away from Cape Town. The fast-growing spicy-chicken chain has 1,100 locations in 22 countries, helping make its original backer, Dick Enthoven, a...
19 Mar Be sceptical of ‘biodegradable’ plastics: new study
Plastic products advertised as biodegradable have recently emerged, but they sound almost too good to be true. Scientists have now found out that, at least for now, consumers have good reason to doubt these claims.
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19 Mar Clover runs out of yoghurt capacity
Clover Industries has a healthy problem. The dairy giant, which started making yoghurts and custards this year, will spend R65m on installing another yoghurt production line because the one it bought from DairyBelle has run out of capacity two years earlier than expected.
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18 Mar Understanding the importance of food traceability
So what is driving all the discussion about food traceability? And why is traceability so important? William Fisher, vice president of the US's Institute of Food Technologists and the executive director of the IFT's Global Food Traceability Center, answers these questions.
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