Africa’s Beverage Businesses Balance Growth, Regulation and Market Identity From Nigeria’s changing rules for traditional drinks to corporate earnings growth and East Africa’s brewing ambitions,
Coca-Cola has strengthened its earnings position against PepsiCo after reporting 7 per cent revenue growth in the third quarter of 2026, while its rival lowered
Nigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has clarified that locally prepared Zobo sold in ordinary, unsealed and unlabelled containers does
A billionaire loses an argument with a pint of Guinness, a tea smuggler worries about wrapping paper, and Mountain Dew sells nostalgia for five cents.
Nigeria’s Enforcement Push Meets Africa’s Test of Growth From counterfeit drink packaging in Aba and illicit alcohol concerns in Kenya to Nigerian Breweries’ financial recovery
Nigerian Breweries made N99.1 billion in 2025 after losing N145 billion the year before, yet its chief executive says the beer market shrank. The gap
Ondo Deaths and Kenya’s Cooler Rule Lead Drinks Week Nigeria’s regulator NAFDAC linked 48 deaths in Ondo State to methanol in unlabelled drinks in the
The same illicit-alcohol problem looks like homebrew in Kenya and counterfeit white spirits in South Africa. The New Pour Report 2026 argues that selling to
Capital Moves In as Africa Tightens Its Beverage Market Last week, Africa’s beverage industry offered a reminder that the biggest changes in the market don’t
Convenience, flavour and changing drinking occasions are turning premixed beverages from a novelty into one of Africa’s fastest-growing beverage categories. For years, Africa’s beverage conversation
