SodaStream unfazed by rivals' march into home carbonation
The CEO of SodaStream says he is confident that the next generation of home beverage-making systems will not deal a killer blow to SodaStream.
Archives for May 18, 2014
Analysis
Australian wine exporters really need to up their game in Asia-Pacific
The recent trade spat between Indonesia and Australia, which comes on the back of the southeast Asian nation’s objection towards its southern neighbour’s move to implement plain packaging of cigarettes, might have been blown out of all proportion, but it...
‘Good beverage entrepreneurs? Give me paranoid overachievers!’ Eric Melloul, Verlinvest
“One question I like to ask an entrepreneur – usually when they’re really tired after presenting for an hour and a half, is ‘what keeps you awake at night?’ A good entrepreneur has to be a paranoid entrepreneur.”
Tragic Kenya fake alcohol deaths show bootleg liquor problem
spiritsEUROPE says the tragic deaths of 80+ people in Kenya who drank bootleg spirits reportedly poisoned with methanol show why the large-scale problem of illicit alcohol should be tackled.
JUICE AND SMOOTHIE FIRM: 'GAVIN'S DEATH WAS A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY, A SOURCE OF UTMOST REGRET'
Dead engineer's dad blasts Gerber Juice: 'Management involved...didn't have a clue what was going on'
The father of a young engineer who was killed by falling pipework during the botched decommissioning of a Gerber Juice factory in South Wales, UK, has attacked the managers responsible, insisting they 'didn't have a clue what was going on'.
Australia
Online shoppers go for grog over groceries
More Australians buy alcohol online than groceries, though still less than one in 50 consumers click products into their virtual supermarket trolleys each month, according to the latest data by Roy Morgan.