Middle East Focus: Innovation drivers in Yemen, House of Pops’ collaboration range, clean label beverages and more
Impactful innovation in Yemen: Recognising consumer priorities and behaviour shifts caused by reduced purchasing power key – HSA GroupYemen food manufacturing major Hayel Saeed Anam (HSA) Group is seeking to address the significant changes in consumption behaviour among the domestic population and food security issues in the country through product innovation and active collaborations.Businesses in
ANZ Focus: Kombucha firm Kommunity Brew, Pokeno Whiskey, a2 Milk Company and more feature in our round-up
Hydration and hemp: Kommunity Brew sees innovation potential in Australia’s healthy beverage spaceAustralia’s Kommunity Brew believes that hemp has the potential to feature more widely in its NPD and innovation strategies, amidst the addition of more local acquisitions to its healthier beverage portfolio.Early this year, the firm entered a partnership with Australian medicinal cannabis company
Philippines sugar tax: ‘Watered-down’ policy will lead to fewer health gains – new data
The tax that came into force was modified from its original version after a consultation period, with health campaigners expressing concerns that industry had too big an influence. In 2018, in response to the escalating rates of obesity, the Philippine government proposed a tax on sugar sweetened beverages (SBs) as part of a broader tax reform
Japan Focus: LC-Plasma approved in India, Japanese whiskey revival, FFC export opportunities, Nissin’s plant-based eel and more
Playing to strengths: Japan’s Tastable hopes texture expertise will help grow Nikuvege plant-based brandJapanese plant-based meat firm Tastable is a branch-off of one of Japan’s largest hydrocolloid specialist firms Unitec Foods, which is in turn under the umbrella of the Fuji Nihon Seito multinational corporation.This has provided Tastable with existing expertise and manoeuvrability around the
Sustainability Snippets: Mengniu dairy packaging recyclability, APAC cocoa on EUDR, ANZ alt protein challenges and more feature in our round-up
Sustainable strides: Mengniu overcomes recyclability challenges of dairy packagingChina diary giant Mengniu says it has overcome some of the long-standing recyclability challenges in the category with a new all-polyethylene (PE) yoghurt packaging concept.According to Daniel Lin, Sustainability Director of Mengniu, traditional dairy packaging faces significant challenges when it comes to being recyclable and its impact
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