17 Jun No cherry on SA’s pie market
According to BMi Research, South Africa's pie category continues to experience constraints with sales volumes yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels.
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17 Jun McCain launches regenerative agriculture project in South Africa
McCain Foods, the world’s largest producer of frozen potato products, will be developing its second ‘Farms of the Future’ project, a farm focused on sustainable regenerative farming practices, near Litchenburg in the North West province.
16 Jun Cannabis in baked goods? Yes! With new baker’s hemp seed oil
Paarl-based pharma-functional ingredients innovator, Afriplex, has launched a cannabis oil that will allow bakers to add on-trend health benefits to many staple foods.
16 Jun Sossi launch takes affordable protein to the masses
Your editor was recently invited to a most interesting product launch by a giant of a food group that ‘nobody has heard about’. Read on! The company in question is Promasidor, a privately-held powerhouse with multiple factories in Africa, and with a big and vibrant product...
14 Jun The growing tensions between Big Food vs govt regulation vs public health vs shareholder sentiment
John Harvey Kellogg and his younger brother William invented one of the first breakfast cereals in the 1890s as a health food to aid digestion, but John was furious when William created a version with added sugar. More than a century later, William’s company, now known as Kellogg, is still at the centre of a conflict between flavour and health.
13 Jun US: Demand sizzles for fried food
Fried food is one of Americans’ oldest obsessions. The pandemic took that to a deeper level.
26 May Kerry opens new flavour plant – claimed as the most advanced in Africa!
Kerry, one of the world’s leading flavour and nutrition companies, has officially opened an impressive new factory in KZN.
24 May What South Africans are putting on their plates – 2022 report
The third Knorr Plate of The Nation report, complied by NielsenIQ, uncovers SA eating patterns of interest to all stakeholders.
23 May The coming food catastrophe
War is tipping a fragile world towards mass hunger. Fixing that is everyone’s business.... a chilling editorial from The Economist...
23 May Marmite back on SA shelves
Marmite is finding its way back to the shelves of South Africa's biggest supermarkets, but producers of the spread warn that supply will remain constrained until its backlog is cleared.
23 May How Pieter Boone plans to return Pick n Pay to its former glory
Supermarket giant Pick n Pay has implemented many failed turnaround plans in the past decade and longer. But new CEO, Pieter Boone, has unveiled his new initiatives.
22 May Why listening to what your customers want is a terrible idea
Here's more provocative thinking from our favourite innovation futurist, SA's own Jonathan Cherry! Your customers are leading you in the wrong direction, he asserts here.....
20 May Lancewood launches the first double cream lactose-free yoghurt in SA
Lancewood - the innovative dairy arm of the Libstar Group - has come up with another interesting launch, the first lactose-free double cream yoghurt in SA.
19 May The wonders of modern baby formula
Baby formula tends to get into the news for all the wrong reasons - mainly its makers being being slammed for dubious marketing by public health lobbyists. But now, with a serious shortage on US shelves, there's much analysis of the politics, economics and science behind baby formula.
18 May Libstar invests in upcoming baby food producer Umatie
Leading JSE-listed small cap food group, Libstar, recently launched an incubator initiative called Libstar Nova - with its first acquisition in the baby food arena.
18 May Golden arches to go dark in Russia as McDonald’s exits after 30 years
On May 16, McDonald's Corp became one of the biggest global brands to exit Russia, laying out plans to sell all its restaurants after operating in the country for more than 30 years following the invasion of Ukraine.
17 May US baby formula is in short supply – but not the situation in South Africa
The US is experiencing a severe shortage of baby formula, but South Africans don't need to fear the same situation locally as production remains stable.
15 May Mondelēz plans to divest gum brands – but not in emerging markets
Mondelēz International will divest its gum and mint business in developed markets to accelerate growth and focus its portfolio on “attractive chocolate, biscuits and baked-snacks categories”.
11 May SAAFoST Expert Workshop: Crisis and opportunity with grains
SAAFoST has announced the first in a series of expert workshops - beginning with one on grains, a topic of much debate, interest and concern with the Ukraine war, as well as changing consumer health demands.
08 May Big investment into Cape fruit and nut processor
One Thousand and One Voices (1K1V), a private equity fund, has announced that Norfund, the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries, has invested $8m (R120m) in South Africa-based raisin processor and distributor, Redsun Dried Fruit and Nuts.
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