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Pick n Pay has introduced dedicated shop space to promote local South African products, produced by small businesses, to customers. The ‘Meet the Maker’ showcase will be trialed in eight stores across the country over a three-month period.
Companies spend a lot of time and money to develop new ingredients and new food products but unless they are protected, if successful, they are sure to be copied and to be on the market in record time.
South Africa’s leading milk producer, Clover Industries, has received a generous buyout offer from MilCo SA, a consortium that is part-owned by an Israeli firm. The South African wing of the Palestinian pressure group Boycott, Divest, Sanctions has promised militant protests and ‘direct action’. We should not let activists bully us into economic decisions that harm South Africa.
In recent years, we’ve begun to learn that most everything we eat — from probiotic yogurt to a serving of asparagus to a fatty pork chop — has an effect on the microbes that live in our bodies, which, in turn, have an effect on us. And rapidly.
Three decades after the technology was first developed, US company, Epogee, is gearing up for a commercial launch of fat replacers called EPGs (esterified propoxylated glycerols) which can reduce calories from fat by up to 92% without impacting taste or texture.
A US food tech startup just raised $90-million to make it easier to invent new alternate proteins.
With bread’s return to favour in the wellness world, consumers are ritualising the baking process as an opportunity to slow down, reports JWT Intelligence.
Just as Big Meat bent to demands for organic and antibiotic free products, the new challenge is persuading consumers their dinner was treated nicely before slaughter. Here's news of an interesting move by one of the biggest US chicken producers.
The importance of packaging and related industries will take centre stage next week at Africa’s ultimate packaging, food processing, plastics, printing and labelling trade exhibition, which will afford over 600 exhibitors the opportunity to showcase their latest technologies and innovations.
The South African Meat Processors Association (SAMPA) has donated R1-million towards the activities of Stellenbosch University’s Centre for Food Safety.
If the idea of a smart coffee cup sounds silly, you probably haven’t tried the Ember Ceramic Mug.
3G Capital burst onto the business scene a decade ago when it spent billions to buy America’s old-school food companies, including Heinz and Burger King, and then relentlessly cut costs, including mass layoffs, to create efficient production machines.
Following recent outbreaks of listeria and salmonella in South Africa, food safety has come under the spotlight, particularly within food manufacturing environments. This article discusses the role of machinery lubricants in achieving optimal safety.
Nice bit of innovation out of the US for these lower-carb/vegan times! Introducing RightRice, a vegetable rice grain made up of over 90% vegetables and 10% rice, from the man who invented Popchips.
Sugar is again in the headlines, with SA upping its sugar tax on sweetened beverages, and the sugar industry in some considerable distress. So what's the global picture? A new report, "Sugar in 2019" by Schroders, the global investment management firm, makes for informed reading. Here's a synopsis but you can download the full report, free!
Encapsulating a wonderful success story, Peter Nyathi, the founder of Tropical Mushrooms in Magaliesburg, has been awarded Pick n Pay's 2019 Small Supplier of the Year. The annual award recognises the retailer's top performing supplier from its Enterprise and Supplier Development programme. The winner is selected...
In a fascinating and creative report, GlobalData's industry experts have selected their favourite innovations of 2018 and analysed why these stand out in their ability to connect with consumers. It's FREE to download, too!
The UK bakery chain Greggs was offering free samples of its vegan sausage roll to early morning punters this week. A friend picking up a coffee declined the offer: “Didn’t seem right.” He is not with the zeitgeist on this one. [Great opinion piece from the FT...Ed]
Cape Town's Agriprotein has been named among just two companies hailing from Africa in the Global Cleantech 100, a list of the 100 companies best positioned to solve the future’s clean-tech challenges and make an impact on the market.
The arrival of alternatives for almost everything in food and beverages has been driven by a number of factors, but health remains the leading reason, according to Innova Market Insights.