SA Food Review

Beverage industry

27 Sep 2016

Coca-Cola Peninsula Beverages celebrates consolidation of companies

Peninsula Beverages, also known as PenBev, officially opened for business in 1940 with its first plant in Marine Drive, Paarden Eiland. Today, 76 years later, more than 1 300 employees work at the various depots and in the state-of-the-art manufacturing plants across the business.

14 Sep 2016

Slanghoek Cellar appoints new national distributor The Breedekloof winery

The Breedekloof winery has appointed PB Liquor Merchants as its wine distributor. Since its establishment in 1951, the team at Slanghoek Cellar (Slanghoek) has been driven by a mandate to produce a range of high quality and highly drinkable wines.

09 Sep 2016

Celebrating the top women in wine

Women winemakers are without doubt making major strides in producing some of the best wines in the country. From making the news headlines to clinching top awards and recognition for their wines internationally, our women winemakers are standing tall next to their male counterparts.

06 Sep 2016

All round refreshment guaranteed

Global beverage giant SABMiller and its affiliate ABI are ensuring uninterrupted production and supply of their world-famous beer and soft drink brands. Reliable power supply is a fundamental aspect of this, and SABMiller has installed standby power generation solutions supplied by Cummins at six important facilities nationwide.

06 Sep 2016

Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa line upgrade

Coca-Cola Beveragesis busy with a R205-million upgrade of its Phoenix Industrial Park plant. This will significantly boost production capacity and speed up turnaround times.

22 Aug 2016

Putting top brands to the test

Every year, branded business valuation and strategy consultancy Brand Finance puts thousands of the world’s top brands to the test. They are evaluated to determine which are the most powerful and the most valuable by country, by industry and against all other brands worldwide. The most valuable soft drinks brands can be found in the Brand Finance Soft Drinks 25.

16 Aug 2016

Global demand for wine packaging to reach US$22.8 Billion

Global demand for wine packaging including containers, closures, and accessories is projected to increase 2.3 per cent per year to US$22.8 billion in 2020.

01 Aug 2016

Stabilising craft beer for clarity

There are different types of haze found in beer. One type is non-microbial, which means that it is not related to microbial growth in the product. Non-biological haze formation results from hydrogen bonding between haze-producing proteins and polyphenol constituents in beer. Non-microbiological products act as a template upon which these protein-polyphenol complexes may attach, thereby accelerating haze development. Reducing these protein-polyphenol complexes or preventing them from forming is referred to as colloidal stability.

01 Aug 2016

Slo-Jo introduces naturally-sweet and sugar-free drinks

Johannesburg based beverage supplier Slo-Jo has launched a new range of powdered drinks with no added sugar or aspartame. The range will be available in three on-trend flavours from September, namely Chocolate Decadence, Chai, and Coffee Freezo. Depending on the flavour, the powders can be made into a crush by blending it with ice or a hot drink by adding steamed milk.

28 Jul 2016

Teenagers turn their back on soft drinks

Hot on the heels of a report showing that Americans have given up the equivalent of 126 chocolate doughnuts a year by opting to consume bottled water ahead of other non-alcoholic beverages, there’s now evidence that teens are also turning their backs on soft drinks.

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