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A strong line-up of leading lights in the food & beverage industry will be presenting at the African Food & Beverage Conference on day two of the inaugural Food & Hospitality Africa expo, taking place at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand from 3 - 5...
In a much-anticipated debut that's bound to attract queus of eager fans, the first South African outpost of Starbucks will open on this week on Thursday 21 April in Rosebank, Jo'burg.
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Boksburg-based edible fats and oil refinery operator, Sime Darby Hudson Knight (SDH&K), has agreed to pay a fine of R35-million and invest R135m in a new packaging and warehousing facility as part of the remedy for colluding with FMCG maker, Unilever.
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With large falls in maize output on account of El Niño-related drought conditions and increases in maize imports, South Africans can expect continued high food price inflation in the coming months.
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Sweeping claims about toxins contained in farmed fish, which are supposedly dangerous to human health, are unsubstantiated and false, writes South African ichthyologist and hatchery owner, Nicholas James.
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When CEO Johann Vorster took the helm at Clover in 2006 he asked 100 staff members who among them would advise friends and family to join the Clover workforce. No one put up a hand. Today the company gets 20 plus CVs a week from...
US chicken has landed on South African shores after a 15-year absence, but mystery surrounds which retailers will stock it.
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A new analysis from a long-forgotten study dating to the 1960s adds to mounting doubts over a cornerstone of dietary advice for more than 50 years: the demonization of saturated fat in the diet.
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Northern Cape agribusiness, GWK, has unveiled what it calls "one of the most modern and technologically advanced food production facilities on the continent", the GWK Farm Foods factory.
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There’s nothing plain about the vanilla market. The price of the bean used to flavour everything from ice cream and chocolate to cola and pastries, more than tripled in the past year as output slipped and quality suffered.
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Kellogg is using grab-and-go packaging and advertising to reposition cereal as a potential snack for all hours of the day and night rather than a food that's exclusively for breakfast.
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Processing food before eating, such as slicing or pounding, likely played key role in human evolution, a new study finds.
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Customer focus is an enduring and fundamental principle of business. The logic goes that success will follow if you identify and solve customer problems, use them to build new products or services, and create strong relationships. But the truth is that customers can be a...
Lisa Ronquest is one of South Africa's top young food scientists, now transferred to The Netherlands in a global food R&D role by Mars. She's been sharing her impressions and insights with FOODStuff SA readers in a regular blog, and we're proud here to publish...
A second big study affirms new thinking: Exposing high-risk kids to peanuts beginning in infancy greatly reduces the chance of developing a peanut allergy. And this peanut tolerance holds up as kids get older.
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You may have heard about the latest sign of modern-day bourgeois decadence: the brief and ill-fated commercial existence of pre-peeled oranges in a plastic container at a Whole Foods store in the US. The Twitterverse exploded in anger and sarcasm...
By now South Africans are familiar with the market conditions we’re facing in 2016: a weak rand, the impacts of a drought, an energy crisis, and unemployment – a somewhat depressing picture of the year ahead. That said, there are still a number of interesting...
South Africa's food manufacturers are walking a fine line. Facing soaring costs of raw materials, they must still maintain volumes and profit margins.
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British retail analysts have defended Tesco's decision to introduce 'fictional' farm brands for its value fresh products, after a backlash from consumers and the farming industry. But not everyone's convinced.
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Following Campbell Soup's lead, other big US food makers — Kellogg, Conagra Foods, General Mills and Mars — have announced they'll start labelling foods made with GMOs.
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