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Three of the four winning entries of the 2017 IFT Food Expo Innovation Awards are food ingredients that capitalise on the clean labelling trend. The winners were announced earlier this week at the annual IFT expo and congress in Las Vegas.
In a move that surprised many, Amazon announced its intention on June 16 to purchase Whole Foods for $13.7bn in cash. In the wake of the announcement, commentators are abuzz with the 'why's, what's and could-be's' behind Amazon's move.
Food is a sector viewed as having low barriers to entry; as a viable opportunity for SMEs. But goodness, as this article elucidates, that's most definitely not the case when it comes to getting new brands on shelf. It takes brave hearts and long pockets to get to the consumer via traditional retail channels in South Africa.
Emmanuel Faber, CEO of Danone, wants the world's biggest yoghurt maker to play a central role in the revolution sweeping the global food industry as it tries to respond to a consumer shift towards healthy eating.
Astronauts could soon be waking up to the smell of freshly baked bread. A new dough mixture and oven specially designed for use on the International Space Station will be tested during a mission next year.
Following pressure from the food and beverage industry, the US FDA has announced that it would indefinitely delay the rollout of new nutrition labels that were designed to help consumers better evaluate the contents of packaged foods.
Globally, more than two billion children and adults suffer from health problems related to being overweight or obese, and an increasing percentage of people die from these health conditions, according to a new study. This equates to one-third of the world's population carrying excess weight, fueled by urbanisation, poor diets and reduced physical activity. South Africa does not look pretty....
Millions of Italians can now say they own a one-of-a-kind Nutella jar. In February, seven million jars appeared on shelves in Italy, all of them boasting a unique label design. And here's a weird twist: every single one of those millions of labels was designed by... an algorithm?
From a tiny store in Cape Town’s Kloof Street to something of an empire during its 20-year evolution, Melissa’s has fondly cemented itself in the hearts of its customers, countrywide.
Nulaid has acquired pasteurised egg brand, Safe Eggs, South Africa’s only pasteurised eggs and which have two major advantages over normal shell eggs.
EY's (Ernst Young) entrepreneur of the year, Murad al-Katib from Canada, has built a spectacularly successful global business on a crop that solves a plethora of problems. Who would have thought there was an enormous future in lentils, but when Katib explains it, it’s kinda obvious.
The country’s biggest food producer is turning its attention to the local market to regain ground it lost to competitors.
A recent article in Daily Maverick that blames the “rampant profiteering of big food retailers” for child malnutrition argues from false premises to a mistaken conclusion. Supermarkets aren’t the bogeymen that keep the poor mired in poverty and hunger, writes Ivo Vegter, another Daily Maverick opinionista.
Starbucks founder Howard Schultz recently presented a stirring commencement speach at Arizona State University. Raised in poverty and driven by a higher purpose to create his massive multinational which now employs 300 000 people, Schultz told the story of his South African Ubuntu discovery, encouraging the graduates of the US’s biggest university to apply its lesson in their own lives.
A calorie-free, vegan ‘raindrop cake’ is taking London by storm. The new cult pudding looks like a breast implant, wobbling on a wooden plank.
The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) has appealed the comprehensive not guilty verdict for Prof Tim Noakes in its tedious and persecutary Tweeting 'trial'.
His lawyers are furious and up for the fight ahead. Noakes is “strangely elated”. He says that it will “allow the exposure of much about which the South African public would otherwise have remained ignorant”.
Leading FMCG companies (or CPG as they're called in the US) are regarded as 'universities of marketing', drawing the brightest and most ambitious graduates. But is the fast-changing FMCG world still so attractive? Here's some insightful commentary by Michael Bollinger, president, Smith Brothers Agency...
Mars-Wrigley, Nestlé USA, Ferrero, Lindt, and Ferrara Candy have jointly committed that half of their individually wrapped products will be 200 calories or less by 2022, with calorie labelling on the front of packaging.
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SA’s poultry producers have had their feathers plucked from the cheap bone-in chicken imports from the US and Europe, and the sustained drought across the country.
Those with a sweet tooth will have noticed that, alongside the coffee culture boom, the world of cakes and croissants has become big business. In March, the French brand, Paul Bakery, opened in Melrose Arch, throwing down the gauntlet to local incumbents, and here lies...