Read more on butterfly pea crackdowns, Penfolds wine retail insights, palm oil calls to halt bias in view of oil shortages and and much more in our 10 most-read APAC F&B stories for April 2022.
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Read more on butterfly pea crackdowns, Penfolds wine retail insights, palm oil calls to halt bias in view of oil shortages and and much more in our 10 most-read APAC F&B stories for April 2022.
Click through the gallery to see them all.
South Korea has cracked down on the use of butterfly pea flowers in foods and beverages, stating that consumption of the colourant is unsafe due to a lack of food safety data.
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The international GM of Australian wine giant Penfolds has highlighted the importance of modernising retail concepts to shift consumer purchase habits from price to premiumisation, in an exclusive interview.
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The palm oil industry is urging governments, food firms and consumers that have boycotted to reconsider their approach, claiming that sustainable palm oil is a credible alternative to oils such as sunflower oil, which is in short supply due to the Ukraine crisis.
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Mondelez International's newly appointed Managing Director for Malaysia and Singapore has revealed product localisation and digitisation as key priorities to drive the company's regional growth, in an exclusive interview.
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Asia's foodtech start-ups are increasingly innovating beyond soy and pea in the plant-based space, with several firms catching the eye of regional experts.
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Today we can reveal the fist wave of speakers confirmed for our Growth Asia Summit, an in-person, face-to-face conference taking place across three days in Singapore in October.
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The Malaysian palm oil sector is calling for the implementation of better branding and consumer communication strategies to increase its marketability, saying that providing high quality and sustainable products is not enough to achieve export recognition.
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China cultivated meat firm CellX has revealed both its short-term and long-term strategies to bring its novel products to the commercialisation stage, with plans to build its own facility some time in 2023 to facilitate its focus on cost reduction and scaling up.
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Alcohol giant Kirin has launched out its first hard seltzers in Japan as well as a new whiskey in response to rising trends surrounding ready-to-drink (RTD) consumption and sustained interest in the country's whiskey sector.
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The Thai government has pledged to pick up the pace of its nationwide digital transformation plans for the local food and agriculture industry this year, with a major focus on big data, smart agriculture, e-commerce and agribusiness improvement.
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