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March 2010 |
 Alan van der Westhuizen, Francois Geldenhuys and Carli
Wessels celebrate Brandhouse's beverage
supplier of the year award.
News Cafe recently hosted its 2009 awards ceremony to recognise outstanding service amongst its franchisees and suppliers.
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March 2010 |
The long-awaited first stage regulations relating to the labelling and advertising of foodstuffs were published in the Government Gazette last week. Most of the regulations will come into effect on 1 March 2011.
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March 2010 |
Consol Glass is going ahead with its new greenfields glass factory in Nigel, Gauteng. According to Consol Group MD, Mike Arnold, the additional capacity will increase Consol's annual output by 25% (220,000t), taking its total glass production to over 1m tons per annum.
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March 2010 |
Afrox started commercial production at its new speciality gases plant, part of its Gases Operations Centre site in Germiston on Gauteng's East Rand, last week.
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March 2010 |
SA agrifood group Afgri expects the following price range trends in commodities in the short term (per ton):
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March 2010 |
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Bull Brand, long a leader in the SA corned beef market, is receiving fresh focus from its new management team, following the disposal of the fresh meat and agricultural parts of the business.
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March 2010 |
The large size of the Zimbabwe sugar production industry, and its importance to Tongaat Hulett, was emphasised in the company’s results for the 12 months ended 31 December 2009. In that year, profit from its sugar operations in Zimbabwe totalled R548m, about a quarter of the total profit from operations of the entire group (R1.5bn).
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March 2010 |
The first production in SA of "food grade" recycled PET resin (rPET) has been met with strong immediate demand from the foodbev industry, according to Chandru Wadhwani, COO of Gauteng-based Extrupet.
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March 2010 |
A local company is offering a self-contained meal that can be heated without fire, gas or electricity.
Although Instant Hot Meals are currently produced and packed in China, they were developed locally, by South Africans to offer a nutritious meal that can be heated anywhere, with the pull of a string.
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March 2010 |
SA Breweries (SAB) expects beer sales to increase by 4-6% during the Soccer World Cup. 2010 marketing manager, Alastair Hewitt says the company estimates it will sell an additional 100,000 hectolitres of beer - about 20m 500ml beers or 30m 340ml beers - during the five-week period.
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