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Upmarket retailer Woolworths will try to woo its well-heeled customers into buying more than just meat and fresh produce from its stores by introducing more categories and bulk value buys in its new full-line supermarkets....
We all know that you have to cook pork until it's grey, that you can't leave anything with mayonnaise out for too long, and that a quick whiff tells you if food's gone bad. Except that each of those 'facts' is wrong. Food safety experts...
Stellen Fine Wines has entered the competitive cider market with the launch of a new cider, Tell's. According to Distell, cider is the fastest-growing alcoholic beverage, outpacing the growth in beer, wines, spirits and flavoured alcoholic beverages. Datamonitor reports that in 2010 the cider market...
Branded foods and beverages company, Clover, recently launched the “Way Better” campaign to communicate its new brand positioning statement to consumers. Fast-moving interviewed Clover’s Brands and Marketing Executive, Dr Chris Lerm, about the general intricacies of re-branding and the best steps an FMCG company should...
The cereals giant Kellogg hopes to add some more snap, crackle and pop to its financial results with the acquisition of Pringles. The $2.7bn (£1.7bn) deal adds the famous tubes of saddle-shaped crisps into a portfolio that includes Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Rice...
Even if wine has become more and more demystified and accessible over the past several years -- there are still a few lingering myths out there. This article debunks some of the common ones...
A UK trade mission is hoping to convince South Africans to once again serve up British beef on their plates, after a 15-year ban on its products was lifted at the end of last year....
5-Hour Energy, the two-ounce (60ml) caffeine and vitamin elixir that purports to keep you alert without crashing. In eight years 5-Hour has gone from nowhere to $1 billion in retail sales. Truckers swear by it. So do the traders in Oliver Stone’s 2010 sequel to...
McCain Foods, the frozen food manufacturer, has embarked on an appropriately winter-warming outdoor campaign for its new baked potatoes - tempting UK consumers with the smell of baked potatoes at ten bus stops around the country as part of its £1.4m push for Ready Made...
A new group chief brewer has been appointed at SABMiller to replace the present one, Barry Axcell, who plans to retire in July, the company reports....
From obesity to cancer to Taliban terrorism, the food and beverage industry seems to get blamed for all of this world's ills. OK, maybe not the Taliban, but for just about everything else, the modern diet and processed foods are fingered as...
Preparing for the worst under the European Union’s uber-strict health claims regime, a Danone spokesman says the company may have to concede defeat and that the world’s highest-selling functional food category could disappear altogether....
What is RRSHS? And why is it so bad for you? RRSHS refers to Relative Risk Scary Headline Syndrome: why bore people with a sober assessment of how likely something is to kill them when you can scream a terrifying figure at them instead? RRSHS,...
Red Bull has received approval from Brazil's state development council for the installation of a soft drinks plant in the country, the first plant in the world to be fully owned by the Austrian energy drinks maker....
The energy drink world has long been dominated by Red Bull, with Monster forever lingering in second place. But there's another caffeine-packed beverage that's rising to the top tier: Rockstar....
Most South Africans living in urban areas believe that their tap water is safe to drink, a study commissioned by the Water Research Commission (WRC) and the South African Local Government Association has found....
The world's two super-cola powers, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, have outlined business plans this week to better compete against each other and please shareholders: both are looking at cutting costs dramatically while at the same time investing those saved millions into marketing...
The first issue of SAAFoST’s very own quarterly magazine, FST (South African Food Science and Technology)*, was mailed out to all SAAFoST members this week. Published in February, May, August and November FST is SAAFoST’s official mouthpiece and reflects its role as the primary association...
A year after pledging to develop a front-of-pack label that would give its customers an easier way to identify healthier food, Wal-Mart Stores has unveiled the "Great For You" icon. Part of the company's healthier food initiative, the icon is an effort to implement a...
Food labelling consultants, as well as many manufacturers and packaging vendors, are likely in a spin of busy-ness as March 1 approaches and R146 kicks into action. Two leading labelling experts, Nigel Sunley and Moira Byers of the Consulting in Food Labelling team, found some...