Woolworths Foods CEO Zyda Rylands officially retires, Sam Ngumeni takes the lead

[Evan-Lee Courie] Woolworths Foods CEO Zyda Rylands officially retires in August 2024 with Sam Ngumeni taking the lead effective July 2024...

#WomensMonth: Meg McCulloch breaks stereotypes on women and beer

[Karabo Ledwaba] Meg McCulloch, originally from Vancouver, Canada, is the co-founder of Jack Black's Brewery, a craft beer specialty company located in Cape Town...

#StartupStory: Hardy McQueen on building a Black-owned beverage business and doing things differently

[Lauren Hartzenberg] McQueen shares the inspiration behind Nice Beverage Co and his vision to bring a taste of Africa to the world while empowering winemakers of colour and driving canned wine category growth...

SA bottled water association fires back over claims of 'toxic' mineral water

[Georgina Crouth] Mineral water producers are up in arms over a report claiming that tests had found bottled water to be potentially toxic and loaded with heavy metals, firing back with their own research...

Unilever discontinues Hellmann's Mayonnaise in South Africa

[Lauren Hartzenberg] Unilever has confirmed that Hellmann's Mayonnaise has been discontinued in South Africa, citing low consumer demand and delistings by the major retailers...

80 years of Robertson Winery: Big brand from a small town

[Lauren Hartzenberg] Robertson Winery is the town of Robertson's biggest employer. Despite a rocky two years, the 80-year-old winery has emerged from the pandemic without a single retrenchment...

Bisquit & Dubouché's Vincent Chappe on championing Cognac craft and community

[Lauren Hartzenberg] Bisquit & Dubouché's global brand ambassador Vincent Chappe shares his passionate dedication to being an advocate of Cognac culture and what South Africa means to him and the brand...

Policy certainty will stimulate investment appetite - SAB CEO

[Lauren Hartzenberg] South African Breweries CEO Richard Rivett-Carnac has called for policy certainty around excise taxes to enable the country's biggest beer brewer to make more long-term investment decisions...

#StartupStory: Budding local tea brand captures essence of Cape fynbos

[Ntandokazi Ntozakhe] Alex Jordaan sought to capture the essence of fynbos and its unique botanical landscape and share it with herbal tea enthusiasts, while contributing to the economic boom of the tea industry and job creation...

#YouthMonth: Entrepreneur Mpho Mohaswa builds a bright future in beverages

[Lauren Hartzenberg] From humble beginnings mixing ginger beer in buckets in a garage, Mpho Mohaswa has grown her Ghemere brand and secured listings at prominent SA supermarkets...

#YouthMonth: Entrepreneur turns her love for tea into a booming business

[Katja Hamilton] Entrepreneur Zanda Isaacs shares her development journey in business and prospects for her company Ting Tang Teas...

#AfricaMonth: Montego upbeat about Africa's emerging market potential

[Lauren Hartzenberg] Having reported robust growth over the last four years, and viewing Africa as the biggest emerging market for the pet food industry globally, Montego is in prime position to cater to demand for pet food on the continent...

#Newsmaker: Meet Mark Corbett, new MD of Goodleaf Wellness

[Lauren Hartzenberg] With the commercialisation of cannabis ramping up, we chatted to Corbett about taking up a position at one of the premier companies in this space, and what lies ahead for him and the Goodleaf Wellness brand...

Former Pernod Ricard exec and SA female distiller partner on non-alcoholic brand

[Lauren Hartzenberg] A premium, triple-distilled non-alcoholic spirit produced in Cape Town, Mahala Botanical is rooted in a farm-to-glass philosophy and imbued with the flavours of fynbos...

#BudgetSpeech2022: 'Give us a break!' Beer industry pleads for excise relief

[Lauren Hartzenberg] An above-inflation excise hike could see SAB shifting investment to other African countries, and diversifying costs by procuring fewer raw materials locally...

SA entrepreneur drives sustainable development using African foods

[Lauren Hartzenberg] Sipamandla Manqele's business Local Village Foods is livening up pantries with a range of food and beverage products that hero African ingredients and economically empower the local communities they're sourced from...

Coca-Cola's Bruno Pietracci talks African optimism and new ways of working

[Lauren Hartzenberg] The Coca-Cola Company is optimistic about the African continent's economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, and is building back better to grow its business in the region...

#WomensMonth: Brewing a bright future in craft beer

[Lauren Hartzenberg] At just 27 years old, Cape Town native Rochelle Dunlop of Afro Caribbean Brewing Company is already an award-winning beer brewer...

How FMCG companies can prepare for the red season spike

[Andrew Dawson] As we enter the festive season, demand for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) increases rapidly, often leaving manufacturers scrambling to fulfil orders from their distribution channel...

What SA's FMCG space can learn from Kenya

[Andrew Dawson] The simplest way of optimising route to market is through pre-sales, which then creates a predictable order and allows for the best delivery routes to be calculated...