Africa’s beverage industry, seven days at a time Ondo Deaths, EABL’s $2.3bn Sale, and a Counterfeit Reckoning Africa’s beverage industry moved on several fronts this
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
There is something oddly memorable about a first drink. It is rarely about the taste. Sometimes it is cheap vodka in a water bottle, or
Heineken UK has cut carbon emissions intensity at its Manchester brewery by 42% after a £28.2 million investment in large-scale heat pump technology, giving the
Fanta Kenya is taking its Skizia Utamu campaign off screens and into communities, with a branded caravan touring Central Kenya from September 8 to 13.
Nigeria’s drug and food regulator has exposed a scheme in which three companies refilled counterfeit branded water bottles with water from unapproved sources and supplied
Africa’s alcohol industry is entering a more interventionist era, but not through a single continent-wide law. Governments across the region are tightening packaging rules, taxation,
Coca-Cola is turning one of its smallest product lines into a bet on an entirely new drinking occasion. The company has named its zero-sugar, zero-caffeine
Salum Nassor has been confirmed as Sales Director at Coca-Cola Kwanza Ltd, completing a move from public affairs into the Tanzanian bottler’s commercial leadership. He
Heineken has launched more than 40 innovation pilots so far in 2026, spanning zero-alcohol beer, flavoured variants and premium extensions, as the company accelerates a
