Red is set to shake up the food and beverage industry in 2021 thanks to its ability to spark powerful emotions, according to the GNT Group, supplier of EXBERRY food colourants.
Three years after buying a minority stake in Kind Snacks – and launching Kind International – Mars has acquired the privately held bar and snacks company, a deal estimated to be worth $5-billion.
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Less than a week after the vaccine news from Pfizer, the US food and beverage industry is not wasting any time asking to be on the priority list for whenever one is made available.
Authoritative London-based trends think-tank, New Nutrition Business, has released its annual Ten Key Trends report for 2021. Here are some trend insights from this brilliantly perceptive and practical document.
Here's an interesting food waste upcycling story - the crafting of enviro-friendly, single-serve take-out food packaging via processing discarded pineapple crowns.
With sincere sadness, Symrise has announced the tragic passing of Miguel Pereira, commercial director Flavor at Symrise sub-Saharan Africa.
Now this is an apt solution for the African market! Swedish fats & oil company, AAK, has developed ILLEXAO, a range of fats suitable for making a ‘super compound’ that can seamlessly replace up to 100% of the free cocoa butter in a chocolate recipe.
Healthy living and wellbeing trends have been around for several years, but the definition of what health actually means has changed consumer priorities and needs, especially during the global pandemic. Enjoy this FREE Euromonitor on-demand webinar!
The global retail sector is in an unprecedented state of flux and as the end of the year approaches, Nielsen has identified a range of evolving consumer groups as well as four Holiday/Festive consumer behavioural resets related to this crucial holiday period.
Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider methodically puts health at the forefront of his consumption, and is doing the same for the giant food group he heads.
If you have ever been to Japan, you might have seen plastic models of food in the windows of restaurants, displaying the edible counterparts that lie within. These are called ‘sampuru’ or ‘sample’ and have been part of the Japanese economy and food culture for nearly one hundred years.
It seems intuitive for dairy-free yoghurt products to be plant-based, but here's an unusual new entrant into the category – eggs.
The European Parliament voted last week on the divisive issue of labelling faux meat products with meat-like names. Farmer lobbyists argued no. Environmentalists said yes.
Covid and lockdown have elicited much business rethink, with retail giant Woolworths announcing it's aiming for a bigger share of South Africa’s lucrative fresh food and grocery market, by committing “to invest R1 billion in its prices” over the next two-to-three years – 75% of which will go into lowering food prices.
Lockdown has had all kinds of nasty unexpected consequences, one of them being short supplies of Marmite. This hangover of the alcohol ban during the first phases of lockdown is due to a dearth of concentrated yeast extract, a byproduct from brewing beer.
The popular Propak Cape expo, supposedly due to be held this month, has had to be postponed to next year, but organisers, Specialised Exhibitions, is hosting a make-good webinar: 'Opportunities in Packaging in the New Normal’, taking place on Wednesday 21 October.
Lockdown’s hard impact on SA soft beverage categories The bottled water, energy drinks and sparkling soft drinks categories are three distinctively different categories that have all suffered very different impacts as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown. Here are some interesting insights by Dr Dana Braithwaite,...
Rotolabel S&N Labels, a major player in foodbev labelling, has announced has rebranded to S&N Labels from 1 October 2020 to focus on its core offering and to grow market share.
A French startup has developed a urine-powered super-fertiliser, far better, greener and cheaper than current options, part of a drive to figure out how humanity can better design its sanitary systems to recognise our urine for the amazing resource it is.