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Nestlé may be better known for its large confectionery portfolio – but it is turning toward vegetarian food with the acquisition of California-based Sweet Earth in a bid to further align itself with modern food trends.
In a much-hyped launch in Shanghai, China, Swiss chocolate giant, Barry Callebaut, has launched a fourth type of chocolate - ruby - said to be the biggest innovation in chocolate for eighty years, since the invention of white chocolate.
Lab-grown meat is still weird. This tiny startup thinks it can get around the problem that bedevils every producer of protein alternatives, whether made from soybeans, peas, or cultured animal cells. [Great layman read on this intriguing topic. Ed]
New research bolsters the growing case that genes play a significant role....
Phil Roux (above) will retire as CEO of Pioneer Foods, SA's second-largest food group, effective October 1, but will continue to serve as strategic adviser to the company until November 30, 2019.
Shopping is no longer enough of a drawcard for consumers to come and spend at brick-and-mortar stores. Many fashion retailers are looking to new in-store concepts and food to pique the interest of under-pressure customers.
Anyone with a pet will not have failed to notice the new splash being made by Boss and Petley's brands on shelf. Meet a key figure behind these relaunches: Tania Morgan-Weyer, the MD of Cape Town wet pet food manufacturer, Promeal. Here's an interview with this determined and feisty FMCG marketer and business leader who has slashed through the glass ceiling so typical of the sector.
Processed foods often contain additives with intimidating chemical names or numbers. But many of these are derived from or based on naturally-occuring plant and mineral substances.
Chicken wings are one of the hottest American foods - and Americans are eating so many that their appetite is sending prices to a record and helping lift profits for poultry processors.
In a long-term study of the latest treatment for peanut allergy, scientists in Australia report that an immune-based therapy helped children allergic to peanuts eat them without reactions for four years.
In December 2016, FSSC 22000 launched version 4 of its international food safety and quality management system certification Scheme. Well known food safety expert, Linda Jackson of Food Focus, advises what will you have to do to comply.
If bugs are the next big food trend, we need to find a way to grow a lot of them. US cricket company, Aspire, has turned to robots.
Cargill, the massive global agricultural conglomerate with a vast meat business, has invested in Memphis Meats, a startup developing cell-cultured meats.
In many ways, Unilever looks a different company from the one that came under brief siege in February. How time flies when you’re under the gun....
Functional food brand, Futurelife, began in 2007 as a social project to help improve the lives of malnourished and disadvantaged people in sub-Saharan Africa. It's now taking big bites out of the breakfast cereal market and enjoying exponential growth.
Australian orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Gary Fettke, is in the headlines there for similar reasons that Prof Tim Noakes is in them here in SA. Fettke recently drew some more gasps with a keynote talk asserting the extraordinary and totally unscientific influence of Seventh Day Adventists in shaping mainstream nutrition guidelines.
Innovation and disruption – it’s creating dramatic change throughout the entire food industry, but perhaps most notably in the case of the dairy market, where traditional dairy products are battling plant-based dairy alternative options for shelf space and consumer dollars.
The news that, after 106 years, Captain Scott’s fruitcake was found by the Antarctic Heritage Trust and “smelled edible”, raises the question: are there other foods that have similar staying power? The answer is, yes, several.
Precise weighing of every bit of waste in the furniture giant’s popular cafeterias is designed to create a culture that creates innovative solutions to food scraps. [This may relate to food service but has FMCG industry lessons, too. Ed]
Another food scandal: this time eggs used for making sandwiches and other processed products that contain traces of an insecticide called fipronil. Fipronil is banned in human food production because it can be harmful to human health if ingested in sufficiently large quantities.