Illicit alcohol accounts for an estimated 60% of consumption in Kenya and 18% of sales in South Africa, and it is forcing the formal industry
Laboratory tests found high methanol levels in drinks linked to the Ondo outbreak, and pharmacists now want regulation to cover the whole production chain, not
South Africa is preparing to scrap the small amount of alcohol drivers are currently allowed before getting behind the wheel, replacing it with a strict
A one-day “Creativity Decoded” workshop used HEINEKEN’s 2026 awards run and the Effie framework to test what global creative work can teach African beverage brands.
The AB InBev-owned brewer took the honour at the Zambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s annual awards, days after ZACCI listed it as a dinner
The brewer is testing a South African vodka cooler in a market where it already controls almost all clear-beer sales. Zambian Breweries has launched MXD,
Preliminary NAFDAC tests detect high levels of methanol in suspected drinks; 15 people have been arrested and the outbreak has reached a second local government.
Pernod Ricard’s Irish whiskey brand brings its three-day consumer event to the Rivers State capital for the first time, as Nigeria grows for Jameson while
As retail beer volume dropped 4% in 2025, value sales surged by 16%ex, posing a stark divergence that is forcing Nigeria’s major brewers into a
The death toll from a suspected mass poisoning linked to locally brewed alcoholic and herbal concoctions in Ondo State has risen to 32, health and
