Appletiser has added 350ml and 1.25l PET bottle options to its popular sparkling fruit juice range. This new pack offering is intended to "revolutionise the brand by improving its convenience and value offering and enabling more South Africans to enjoy more Appletiser, more often", says the company.

Downsizing pack sizes is a marked food-bev industry trend in these recessionary times, and now Distell is doing with one of SA's best-known Méthode Cap Classique wines, Pongrácz, that's been launched in a petite 375ml bottle.

NoMU, one of SA’s fastest-growing food innovation brands, has launched an everyday drinking chocolate, building on the success of its top-selling sugar-free hot chocolate.

In response to rising consumer demand for more environmentally-friendly packaging, Woodlands Dairy in the Eastern Cape has chosen Elopak’s two-litre Maxi curve Pure Pak carton to launch its First Choice Still Water.