08 Apr Breathing new life into leftovers: how one factory achieved zero waste
On the outskirts of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the north east of England, a confectionery factory is using a centuries-old technique to breathe life into waste.
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08 Apr Move over food trucks, there’s a new kid on the block
It can cost upwards of a million dollars to open a new restaurant, a dizzying investment that would quash foodie dreams faster than you can say, “Bill, please!” Food trucks have become a popular alternative, and now there's an exciting move to food bikes.
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08 Apr Food start-ups and entrepreneurs in the driving seat
The good news for would-be entrepreneurs – and even for executives inside big companies who long to create something new – is that when it comes to health and wellness, it is small new brands and new businesses that are increasingly taking the lead in...
08 Apr AVI boosts coffee creamer, Tiger Brands consolidates the mayo
Some interesting production news that's come to light from two of SA's food giants...
07 Apr World Health Day 2015: food safety challenges change but don’t go away
On World Health Day, April 7, 2015, it is very sobering to reflect on the fact that nearly 600m people worldwide are still affected by food-borne disease each year and more than 350,000 people die from it. Children under five bear the brunt...
01 Apr The changing American supermarket
For millions of Americans pushing a cart up and down the lengthy aisles of their neighbourhood supermarkets — past dozens of brands of packaged cereal and crackers lit by fluorescent lights — has lost any cachet it might ever have had. Here's their good news:...
31 Mar Awards and innovation at Anuga FoodTec 2015
The triennial foodtech show, Anuga FoodTec, filled the massive halls of KoelnMesse, Cologne, last week. The most important technology expo for the international food and beverage industry, it covers all aspects of food production and is an innovation platform for machines, systems, packaging material...
31 Mar Expect the unexpected: why food safety depends on staying one step ahead
Over the years, the industry approach to food safety has moved from looking for defects in finished products, to trying to identify their root cause as early as possible in the supply chain...
31 Mar Eggs: The new favourite protein
Eggs are very much on the menu. In the US, their dynamism not only puts dwindling fresh meat sales to shame, but it seems that protein-packed eggs are turning into a threat for carbohydrate-based breakfast cereal. As eggs shed their high-cholesterol stigma, sales will increasingly...
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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