Food and Beverages Business News Features

THE brand new 3 000 ton Orion Cold Storage project at Muizenberg’s Capricorn Business Park required an investment of close R43 million and it is money well spent, according to Orion’s managing director, Patrick Gaertner.

Distell has posted year-on-year revenue growth of 8,7% to R11,8 billion on a sales volume increase of 7,3% for the 12 months to June 30, 2010.

The SA Rooibos Council is investing over R2million in independent research this year in an ongoing  programme to find out more about the properties, applications and cultivation of the Western Cape’s unique herbal brew.

GOVERNMENT has legalised the use of ultra violet light energy for liquid purification in oenological practice. This paves the way for winemakers to replace traditional wine filtration systems with photopurification technology