Food Glorious Food

Food Glorious Food

The UK’s most comprehensive water footprint food calculator has been developed by Sustain’s scientists: precise ingredients of any meal, plus country of origin gives the most accurate reading to date of a meal’s water footprint A brand new food calculator that gives a comprehensive water footprint of a full meal has been developed by scientists […]

Beer Serves America … Literally

Beer Serves America … Literally

A new economic impact study released shows America’s beer industry—made up of brewers, beer importers, beer distributors, brewer suppliers and retailers—directly and indirectly contributes $246.6 billion annually to the U.S. economy. Jointly commissioned by the Beer Institute (BI) and the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA), the Beer Serves America study shows that the industry generates […]

Cruise Line Cocktails Go World Class

Cruise Line Cocktails Go World Class

Diageo Global Travel and Middle East (GTME) announced a new 2013 partnership with Princess Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line to deliver an on-board cocktail training program, as part of one of the world’s most prestigious mixology competitions – Diageo Reserve World Class. Louise Higgins, Marketing Director, GTME Americas, said: “We are delighted to be investing […]

Coca-Cola Unveil New Calories Conscious Sprite

Coca-Cola Unveil New Calories Conscious Sprite

In a move that demonstrates its ongoing commitment to reducing calories in its soft drinks range, Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd (CCE) is introducing stevia to Sprite this March. The reformulation has enabled the number of calories in the brand to be lowered by 30%. Sprite’s use of stevia extract also enables the brand to provide its […]

Honeycomb Creates J20 Fruit Fusions Packaging

Honeycomb Creates J20 Fruit Fusions Packaging

Project management company Honeycomb developed the brand as a licensee of Britvic, which owns J2O soft drinks. It was approached by Britvic to develop the sweets range and design the packaging on the strength of previous projects for Britvic, including work on Fruit Shoots and Robinsons drinks. The pack designs are based on brand guidelines […]

Smirnoff Readies Real-time Social Hub

Smirnoff Readies Real-time Social Hub

Smirnoff is developing an online app that allows fans to direct personalised videos of their nights-outs using content from all their social media channels. The ‘Mixhibit’ app, which is currently being trialled, incorporates selected photos, tweets and check-ins into a video set to a custom soundtrack. Users will be able to share videos through social […]

‘Whiskey-Flavored’ Typeface Illustrates The Tastes Of A 12-Year-Old Scotch

‘Whiskey-Flavored’ Typeface Illustrates The Tastes Of A 12-Year-Old Scotch

Scottish illustrator Steven Bonner has created a beautiful typeface for Ballantine’s Scotch Whiskey that reflects the tasting notes of the brand’s 12-year-old Scotch. The illustrator has created several illustrated letters, each of which represents one of the main tasting notes found in the whiskey, including cream, oak and pear. For instance, the letter ‘C’, crafted […]

Finally An App That Tells You What To Tip!

Finally An App That Tells You What To Tip!

Finding objective information about the restaurants that consumers are contemplating visiting is often difficult to find. By already calculating more than $400,000 worth of weekly dining transactions, iOS app What Should I Tip? is working to change that. With version 2.0 of the app, Wavelength Media’s free tip calculator app is aiming to provide users […]

Soda Drinking Fizzles, Bottled Water on the Fast-Track

Soda Drinking Fizzles, Bottled Water on the Fast-Track

Despite their overwhelming popularity, carbonated soft drink consumption in the U.S. is slowly giving way to water drinking, particularly bottled water. Americans are gulping an average of 44 gallons of soda per a year, representing a 17 percent drop from peak soda consumption averages in 1998. Over the same period, the average amount of water […]