Despite tough trading conditions off the back of low economic growth and curbed consumer confidence there is still room for growth within South Africa’s R43-billion Private Label retail category. [Private label products are sold exclusively by a specific retailer.]
After four years in development, the high-flying San Francisco vegan food disrupter, Hampton Creek, has rolled out its first scrambled "egg" product, Just Scramble.
Can new frozen foods startups succeed with health-conscious consumers? When it comes to “healthy eating,” frozen foods doesn’t naturally spring to mind. Today, a new wave of start-ups is reinvigorating the category through modern branding and nutritious options that serve every type of dietary requirement.
FoodDive.com is a great go-to website for F&B industrialists - with a team of writers who have their fingers on every event and trend in the F&B world, and always providing sage context to the dynamics behind each story. It has an American focus but global relevance. Here is news of its awards for 2017 that recognise the industry’s top disruptors and innovators....
JWT's Innovation Group has again published its always fabulous report, The Future 100 2018, an annual snapshot of the year ahead and the most compelling trends to keep on the radar. Food and drink make up a sizeable part of its cutting-edge insights.
Incredulously, food science and technology are looked upon by many as something suspicious, if not evil and toxic, by large swathes of ignorant and misinformed consumers - an attitude subtly, or not so, promoted by food activists and all too many food marketers. The truth is that they are disciplines that make the modern world go round.
Bits and bites of wisdom and insights on the trends defining and shaping the wonderful world of food and drinks, collated here from FOOD-DRINKStuff SA's regular e-newsletters this year.
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Major ingredients suppliers, DSM, Ingredion and Arla were among the category winners at the FiE 2017 Awards (Food Ingredients Europe expo), but there was some surprise that at the awards ceremony [29 Nov] no outright winner was announced.
Mars, the privately-held company best known for its confectionary brands like M&M’s and Snickers, has announced that it will buy a minority stake in Kind, the US maker of wildly popular snack bars.
Tim Noakes new book, Lore of Nutrition, Challenging Conventional Dietary Beliefs, written with journalist Marika Sboras, recently hit the shelves with a deluge of publicity, albeit somewhat overshadowed at the time by Jacques Pauw's The President's Keepers. It lays out the whole story of his health professional 'trial', his demonisation and the astonishing treachery of his academic colleagues, and the scientific evidence that supports his conversion to LCHF as the answer to the global pandemic of lifestyle diseases. This review by Icelandic cardiologist, Axel F Sigurdsson MD, PhD, FACC.
Viva young, clever talent! In the US, the F&B industries are embracing millennials for more than just their buying power. In the seventh iteration of Forbes’ annual '30 Under 30 List', 14 FMCG innovators and entrepreneurs were recognised for being young adults who made major contributions to food and drink innovation in 2017/2018.
With the doors once again swinging open for Food Ingredients Europe (FiE) in Frankfurt today (Tuesday, Nov 28), Mintel asserts there is a hunger for new ingredients across Europe.
The IPSA Gold Pack Awards are a prestigious biennial event showcasing the best of SA's packaging industry. The 2017 winners were announced at a banquet in Gauteng on November 22, with Mpact’s Plastics division taking several top honours for a food package.
Taste’s pricey deal with Starbucks and Domino’s proves that success is not guaranteed just because it has two superstar brands.
Keen cyclists are turning halva, a traditional plant-based sweet in the Middle East, into a must-have energy fuel for athletes – offering NPD opportunities in sports nutrition.
Anyone who eats tomatoes, and that's mostly everyone, will know the brand name ZZ2, the huge South African farming enterprise that, among other produce, grows and markets 35% of the SA tomato crop, and in fact, is the largest grower in the Southern Hemisphere. [Audio interview - 4.42 mins]
A US company has developed a technology that converts more than 30 tons of fresh food waste into fertilizer and animal feed in just three hours.
Upmarket US food retailer, Whole Foods, which was acquired by Amazon earlier this year, has put its hand to trend forecasting, with the chain’s global buyers and experts culling their data and coming up with a list of what they're predicting to be the top food trends of 2018. They're very American in flavour, but interesting nonetheless...
Rhodes Food will spend R350m in the 2018 financial year to, among other things, expand capacity at its pie and bakery facilities, and install clear juice concentrate plant at the Groot Drakenstein production hub to further vertically integrate the fruit juice operation.
Over the last few months SA's National Institute for Communicable Diseases has received reports of a marked increase in listeria cases across the country, but particularly in the Gauteng.