We’re just a week into 2015, but already you’ve probably seen umpteen articles about the Back to the Future II tech we have and haven’t got yet. To save you unnecessarily visiting Buzzfeed or whatever, here’s the ...
Tags: Nike, Consumer Electronics
Coca-Cola has commenced construction on its first plant in Gaza Strip, following an approval from Israel. The proposed plant is expected to see around $20m in investment and it is expected to become operational in 2015. When ...
Tags: beverages, juices, water, Agriculture
As the end of 2014 draws near, Canadean forecasts the top trends which will influence consumer behaviour in 2015, and provides an insight into how manufacturers and marketers can target these evolving consumer needs to drive sales over the ...
Tags: craft offerings, FMCG market, Agriculture
Fairfax Media claims supermarket growth focus on ‘Junk’ food and cigarettes – confidential data leaked Fairfax Media’s Sydney Morning Herald and The Sunday Age over the weekend have published their analysis of ...
Tags: milk, Cigarettes, Agriculture
Pepsi Cola Products Philippines (PCPPI) is investing PHP650m ($14.5m) to build a new snack foods manufacturing facility in the Philippines. Expected to be initiated in the second half of 2015, the new manufacturing facility will produce, ...
Tags: Pepsi, Cola Products
According to Visiongain, a British market research firm, the global flexible packaging market has reached some US$143.83 billion, mostly driven by growing sales of consumer products in emerging nations. In the next decade, the firm ...
Lotte Liqor’s first beer, Kloud, burst onto the market with aplomb. “We expect to bring a change in the history of Korea’s beer industry, often reputed as ‘boring,’ with this kind of real beer,” the ...
Tags: Beer Market, Krones, Packaging
Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, the bottling partner of Coca-Cola in India, plans to construct a new bottling plant in Telangana, a southern state of India, with an investment of about $163.5m (INR10bn). The company has sought land from ...
Simba, a part of PepsiCo South Africa, has officially openend a state-of-the-art chip manufacturing facility in Prospecton, KwaZulu-Natal. The facility is Simba's third manufacturing facility in South Africa. The Prospecton plant will ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Lee, the internationally famous denim brand, has roped in popular Japanese music producer and owner of Bape fashion label Nigo to create a special vintage-inspired collection. Influenced from 1920s and 1930s workwear and the American ...
Tags: Lee, Bape, denim brand
Asia's rising stars challenging soft drinks leaders The three largest global soft drinks brands continue to be Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola and Sprite, but Chinese brand Kangshifu (Tingyi Holding Corp) is not far behind, according to the latest ...
Tags: soft drinks, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Sprite
Many Iowans like to have picnics in the summertime, but not many attempt a picnic in January in Iowa unless it's the Iowa Pork Producers Association. IPPA did just that on January 22 at Capital Square in downtown Des Moines as the ...
Tags: Pork
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: States Consider Labels for Genetically Modified Foods A number of states are considering laws requiring labels on food products that ...
Tags: FDA, Malta Goya, Health, AP Report
Following a large media campaign in the lead up to last year’s Super Bowl in the United States, SodaStream is once again making a big marketing push with new global brand ambassador and a new ad campaign. Scarlett Johannson, star of ...
Tags: Super Bowl, SodaStream, Daniel Birnbaum
Scientists and engineers in Europe are embarking on a quest to see if they can change the way young people at risk for becoming obese eat. Key to this will be developing unobtrusive technology that monitors how quickly or slowly a person is ...
Tags: young people health, obese eat, eating disorders, healthier pace