WILD managing director Hans-Peter Voss explains how decades of experience in natural ingredients enables the firm to create targeted market solutions for beverage makers.
Henry Dixon, commercial director at BDB, underlines the challenge of taste, texture and affordability in the formulation of health and wellness products.
The global number-one player in the weight management foods market,
Unilever, has indicated it will be expanding this functional
category into drinkable shots.
UK food and beverage manufacturers have committed themselves
to removing a group of six colour
additives from their products by the end of 2008,
according to a regulatory report published yesterday.
In a policy document released yesterday, the EU's food and
drink sector called on the European Commission to take account of
economic conditions when setting environmental and production
sustainability targets for industry.
PepsiCo today announced it will split its
operations into three separate units in a move to better
harness the growth of its snack and beverage businesses.
In this week's round-up Kirin looks to increase pricing for its
beers; Scottish & Newcastle take their battle with Carlsberg to
the courts; and China welcomes the Frappuccino.
Procter & Gamble (P&G) is fighting back in an ongoing
dispute over packaging with Kraft Foods by opening counter-legal
proceedings over allegations it has infringed container designs
used on its rival's coffee products.
Self-cooling packaging and unusual juices derived from vegetables
and salad are just some of the latest innovations being adopted by
the beverage industry to bolster sales of their goods, according to
Datamonitor.
Rounding up the beverage business this week: Coca-Cola Enterprises
and Anheuser Busch continue to increase profits against cost
difficulties, while Japanese brewer Asashi takes steps to protect
itself from declines in its native beer...
In what is proving a busy week for the beverage business, Scottish
& Newcastle may be bought out by a consortium of rival brewers,
while profitability is up for soft drink manufacturers the
Coca-Cola Co. and Britvic.
UK-based Tesco said today it would map out the carbon dioxide
output involved in getting 30 products to the shelves, a bid to
develop international labelling standards rating products according
to their impact on climate change.
Sara Lee is to double the amount of sustainable coffee used in its
brands to 20,000 tonnes, a move the company says
will make it the market leader in the category.
Anheuser Busch yesterday denied claims by environmental
organisation Greenpeace that batches of its beer, including the
flagship brand Budweiser, contain genetically modified (GM)
materials.
This week's news brief finds Portugal's largest brewer having to
close a plant, Procter and Gamble possibly going off coffee and
another victory in the
battle against forcing metric measurements.
Sweden-based group Vin and Spirit (V&S) has lost a legal
bid in the country's appeal court to continue using a
former partner's trademark on its wine
labels, following allegations that it
had supplied counterfeit...
In the latest news roundup, San Miguel adds some fizz to its Hong
Kong operations, Scottish & Newcastle's chief executive may be
about to call time on his tenure, and the Orangina group makes an
energetic acquisition.
The UK Tea Council has been criticised for exaggerating the
benefits of tea and banned from making further claims about the
drinks antioxidant potential after running a series of adverts.
Food safety and animal health top the agenda at
today's meeting of EU's agricultural ministers, with
the future of milk, wine and sugar production also up for
discussion.
UK-based Innocent claims to be the world's first beverage
manufacturer to package its brands in polyethylene
terephthalate (PET) bottles made only
from recycled material.
The UK's FSA has issued its harshest judgement on the food
industry's use of artificial colour and preservatives yet,
following the publication of the Southampton study at the beginning
of the month, and is calling for action...
It is not so much what is going into products, but the manner in
which they are produced that dominated the
debate at Wild's industry convention in Heidelberg, Germany.
The number of full-calorie soft drinks sold in schools across
America has almost halved, according to a new report that examines
the progress made by industry one year after the implementation of
the National School Beverage Guidelines.
In the latest news round-up, Campari remains in good spirits
despite a decline in soft drinks sales, Czech beer is on the rise
and brewer Heineken is still lost in translation over its Rugby
World Cup sponsorship.
As manufacturers continue to react to the consumer backlash from
new findings linking artificial additive use to child
hyperactivity, the beverage industry claims companies are
moving to reformulate products accordingly.
Pepsi and Unilever are to extend their agreement over distribution
and marketing of the Lipton ready-to-drink tea brand to target a
growing global demand for the products..
In this weeks industry round up, Heineken gets to grip with French
rugby stadiums, German soft drinks firm Bionade shies away from a
potential big money sell off and Royal Grolsch moves to step up its
operations in Kazakhstan.
The environment, corporate governance and workers rights are
transforming the way managers oversee their global manufacturing
operations, as demonstrated in Coca-Cola's second report on its
progress in these areas.
Research released today linking sodium benzoate to
hyperactivity in children is not yet definitive enough to remove
the preservative from products, soft drink manufacturers claim.
This week' industry round up finds Coca-Cola finalising
distribution for Glaceau, the latest appointments
at Carlsberg, and SABMiller bringing a little taste of
Italy to the Japanese market.
The reformualtion of products due to health concerns over the
preservative sodium benzoate (E211) will not
significantly affect soft drink manufacturers, an expert
claims.
Nestle will expand its dominance in the bottled water market
after today agreeing to the acquisition of a majority share in
Switzerland-based Sources Minérales Henniez.
Australian brewer Foster's has posted 4.7 per cent increase in
sales to AUS$4.5bn (€2.6bn) for the full fiscal year as it
continues to expand its operations outside of its core beer brands.
Cranberry giant Ocean Spray is again expanding its processing
capacity in an effort to catch up with soaring global demand for
products containing sweetened dried cranberries.
That all-important coffee boost sought by about 70 per cent of the
UK population may be becoming a bit of a drag, with coffee related
illnesses having doubled during the last four years, according to
new figures released this week.