SA Food Review

Food manufacturing

20 Apr 2016

SIAL Paris helps keep your finger on the pulse

“With more than 400 000 raw and processed products (both local and from across the globe), SIAL is an incredible playground for those seeking inspiration: from Shanghai to Jakarta and Abu Dhabi to Paris, this is where the chefs come to find new flavours, textures and colours – the ingredients they need to feed their creativity.” - Nicolas Trentesaux, director SIAL Group

20 Apr 2016

Biggest ever illicit alcohol haul ‘strengthens’ case for tax stamps

News of a record haul of illicit goods including alcohol has highlighted a pressing need for authorities to adopt tax stamps to clamp down on smuggling and secure revenue, says the International Tax Stamp Association (ITSA).

20 Apr 2016

South Africa’s first guilt-free protein ice cream

Skinny Scoop has launched a first of its kind sugar-free protein ice cream. The product is the latest entrant in the Food Review/Symrise New Product Competition.

13 Apr 2016

What to expect of the African Food & Beverage Conference

The African Food & Beverage Conference, to be held on 4 May 2016 at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand during Food & Hospitality Africa, is set to feature a host of power speakers.

12 Apr 2016

The Glass Recycling Company’s advert shows power of recycling

The Glass Recycling Company’s (TGRC) latest creative advertisement depicts the power of recycling in a unique way. The company’s new commercial aims to ensure South Africans view waste glass as a precious product.

11 Apr 2016

How to add information to your packaging quick and easy

Have you reached the point where your packaging needs a pick-me-up? Perhaps you’re keen to draw shoppers’ attention to a specific product benefit or highlight a key ingredient? Or you may be planning to introduce a new flavour variant or launch a seasonal promotion?

11 Apr 2016

Your role in improving glass recycling – Q&A with The Glass Recycling Company

In a question and answer session with Shabeer Jhetam, CEO of The Glass Recycling Company, Food Review finds out how food and beverage brand owners can do their bit to help grow glass recycling in South Africa. Jhetam speaks on behalf of the glass manufacturers.

11 Apr 2016

Following the chocolate dream

It was the ancient Mayans who found cocoa trees growing in the jungles of central and South America more than a millennium ago. There are those that are lucky enough to work with chocolate such as chemical engineers like Peter Edmondson, section manager for chocolate moulding- and making at Mondelēz South Africa. Edmondson is fondly known to his colleagues as Dr. Chocolate.

11 Apr 2016

GWK launch new SA food brand

GWK, the farmer-owned South African agribusiness, has announced that a new, proudly South African farmer brand will be marketed under the new Nature’s Farms brand. The announcement was made at the unveiling of a new, multi-million rand GWK Farm Foods wheat mill, pasta plant and biscuit factory in ModderRiver near Kimberley.

11 Apr 2016

South Africa’s Ministry of Finance adjusts import duty (tariff) on wheat

South Africa’s Ministry of Finance has approved the implementation of an amendment to the import duty (tariff) on wheat, in accordance with the current variable import duty formula. At the same time, the ministry has proposed to the Minister of Trade and Industry that he consider instituting a request for an urgent and accelerated review of the variable tariff formula by the International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) of South Africa.

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