Food & Beverage Reporter

Food & Beverage Reporter (FBR) is one of South Africa’s leading B2B magazines, with a track record of more than 25 years in the industry. With thought leadership and in-depth coverage of technical topics, news, and local and international developments across the foodbev and allied industries, the magazine caters for South Africa and neighbouring countries. FBR also carries a specialist Packaging& Processing Reporter section in each issue, exploring technology, ideas, and trends in these key segments of the food chain. In response to changing readership trends we offer a fully digitized publication, with both Apple and Android apps In March each year, FBR’s annual Supplier Directory is distributed both in print and online versions providing you with a handy guide to local suppliers and service providers on the continent.

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Food & Beverage Reporter

SAAFFI-Wits Flavour & Fragrance Technology Course 2022 Graduation • On the evening of 2 May, a group gathered in the Atrium, a beautiful venue at Firmenich South Africa’s offices in Midrand, to celebrate the graduation of the students who studied the SAAFFI-Wits Course in Flavour & Fragrance Technology during 2022.

Checkers is PRIME Official Retail Partner

SAAFFI appoints Sharol Bolel as Executive Director

DSM and Firmenich merge

Heineken Acquires Distell and Namibia Breweries

South Bakels acquires Orley Foods

PepsiCo South Africa appoints new CEO

Ensuring Consumer Food Safety Through Micro and Small Supplier Development • The landscape of food supply in South Africa ranges from formal to informal, high-end production facilities to small-scale food farmers and food producers. All play a vital role in ensuring food supply to millions of people in our country, however most of the efforts relating to food safety are focused on the high-end production facilities and mainstream retailers. The informal and small-scale markets trade food products daily without being regulated, serviced by vendors who may not be trained or qualified to produce food products that will be safe and trustworthy.

Instant Functional Rice Starch for Clean Label Applications • Beneo, a leading manufacturer of functional ingredients, has announced the launch of its new precooked functional native rice starch, Remypure S52 P.

Discover CP Kelco’s Multi-functional Clean Label Ingredient • The clean label mega trend is quickly becoming an important part of food formulations. To enable further growth in the clean, functional and plant-based ingredient market, Azelis is strengthening its position in the South African food industry market through its partnership with CP Kelco.

BC30TM Supports Protein Absorption from Plant Sources, Study Shows • Probiotic clinically demonstrated to improve amino acid absorption from plant protein at 1B CFU per serving.

For all your fibre formulation needs! • While the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that consumers ingest 25g or more of fibre per day to live a healthy life, most fall short of this requirement

Your Pea Protein of Choice • The market for plant protein is expanding rapidly, and while this offers fantastic opportunities for food producers, it poses some great challenges too.

5 Food Fraud Trends That Should Be on Your Radar

Safeguarding Against Food Fraud: Now is Not the Time to Ease Up • Food Fraud is not a new topic in the food industry; it continues to plague the sector, both locally and globally. While there are many other stressors on the industry right now that may seem to take precedence, it is these same pressures that will create the perfect breeding ground for food fraud to proliferate. We need to be more vigilant than ever.

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