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Refocusing the marketing of alcohol in SA The marketing of alcohol brands has had to adapt significantly during the COVID-19 lockdown and the subsequent bans on alcohol sales, with a renewed focus on ensuring the creation of an alcohol-safe South Africa. Liquor giants Distell and Diageo...
Breast milk for sale: Risks and costs Top athletes are always looking for an edge over their competition. And one of the latest more extreme trends to gain an advantage? Human breast milk. The benefits of breastfeeding infants are well established, and breastfeeding is strongly recommended...
Distell launches lower alcohol brandy Distell brand Viceroy Brandy has joined the global trend to lower alcohol innovation with a new addition to its range, Viceroy Smooth Gold. The new brandy has a lowered alcohol content (23%) to regular brandy (43%), but still offers the same...
Diageo buys Aviation Gin brand for over R10bn! Hollywood actor, Ryan Reynolds, is toasting a big payday after the Aviation Gin brand he invested in was bought by the world’s largest spirits maker. Diageo announced that it was to pay $610m (£466m) for Aviation American Gin,...
Health and wellness trend refreshes beverage innovation Consumer interest in healthier diets is translating into healthy beverage innovation, with functional drinks and alcohol alternatives on the rise, as well as lower alcohol wines, beers and spirits. Increased concern about both added sugars and artificial sweeteners has...
Connecting foodbev and hospitality industries across Africa this September Due to the current global restrictions on live events and travel, dmg events is hosting Africa’s first digital summit for the broader foodbev industries. The e-Food & Hospitality Next Africa Summit runs through 1–30 September 2020 and...
Heineken UK joins cardboard topper trend for multi-pack cans Heineken UK is set to roll out its 100% plastic-free cardboard topper, called Green Grip, for multi-pack cans across the retail stores in the UK, despite the Covid-19 challenges. The brewing company’s Green Grip cardboard topper will...
Starbucks to open its first Cape Town store Five years after opening its first stores in South Africa, Starbucks will soon have outlets in Cape Town for the first time. The first Cape Town store will be open in Canal Walk in mid-November, the company told Netwerk24....
Distell battered by Covid-19 hangover Distell has publicised shocking Covid lockdown Prohibition losses: about 100-million litres in sales and R4.3-billion in revenue – and this excludes the second ban on alcohol sales introduced in July to take pressure off hospitals. Releasing results for the year to...
Spain’s Iberchem Group creates Iberchem South Africa Spain’s Iberchem Group is expanding its presence on the South African foodbev market with the creation of Iberchem South Africa, taking full ownership of Versachem after buying a majority 70% share of the Pretoria-based food flavour-colours business just over two years...
The 10 most expensive alcohols in the world Here’s a look at some of the planet’s most expensive tipples, designed for the fabulously wealthy. Anyone working in the beverage industry knows all about markups – and the fine art of finding that balance between offering a...
The crippling alcohol ban – Inverroche’s founder speaks For those caught in the eye of the alcohol ban storm, what we know for sure is that there may be no local economy left to support or buy from in the near future. Here’s a great opinion piece...
Unilever’s tea business: shedding and keeping the Lipton brand Unilever plans to divest most of its tea business following a six-month review by placing them into a separate entity, the company said during a recent earnings call. The changes would see Unilever divesting the Lipton brand in some...
South Africa’s PET bottle recycling achievements ‘impressive’ South Africa’s polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle recycling achievements continue to impress, despite global market contractions and the closure of a leading recycler, Mpact Polymers. This is the opinion of South African National Bottled Water Association (SANBWA) CEO, Charlotte Metcalf,...
Robertson Winery single-serve wine in cans Robertson Winery has joined the growing canned wine trend, with the launch of Single Serve 200ml wines that made their debut just before lockdown. Available in two varieties, the canned wines are identical to Robertson Winery’s well-known bottled Sauvignon Blanc...
Collapse of on-trade brings new opportunities in the global drinks market In this new webinar ‘Global Drinks Trends After Coronavirus’, Euromonitor International’s experts discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the global on-trade beverages industry, new opportunities to reach consumers at home, and reimagining premiumisation as disposal income...
Covid-19 will create far-reaching impact on global alcohol consumption In the wake of the Covid pandemic’s massive impact on the global beverage alcohol market, IWSR analysts have identified six key macro trends that are driving and shaping the industry…. These six trends are: Digital and EcommerceSophistication...
Coca-Cola launches paperboard multipack rings in European first Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) has adopted CanCollar paperboard-based ring technology for its multipack cans in Europe, with the initial launch in Spain’s Balearic Islands and further rollout anticipated. The PEFC-certified, recyclable and sustainably-sourced CanCollar replaces the current Hi-cone...
Op-Ed: Wine industry’s chance to act on cheap wine in plastic containers Government and the South African wine industry should have tackled one evil feature of local wine consumption years ago. If it had, the current hard-handed approach to liquor might have been less destructive and...
Booze ban: it’s Whitey Basson vs Dlamini Zuma The alcohol industry has some big guns in its arsenal as it gears up for a war with Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma — but its star witness in the case which begins on August 18 will surely be the...