< PreviousDisaronno International UK celebrates the holiday season with two ad campaigns Ahead of the festive period, Disaronno International UK is celebrating its heritage by launching two advertising campaigns for Disaronno Velvet and Tia Maria this winter, including a commercial featuring the new creamy liqueur - Tia Maria Matcha. Championing Tia Maria’s new product which launched earlier in 2021, the coffee-liqueur brand will be rolling out its latest commercial which will air from the 8th November until 27th December. The 20-second film which will air on some of the UK’s biggest channels across TV, Video on Demand (VOD) and YouTube, is shot on the dynamic streets of London and depicts characters from various walks of life showing off their own unique and bold style through the creation of graffiti artwork. The advert concludes by showcasing the signature Tia Maria espresso martini cocktail as well as the Tia Maria Matcha Ritual serve on ice, alongside the new ‘Two of a Kind’ positioning. Coca-Cola acquires remaining stake in sports drink business The Coca-Cola Company has acquired full ownership of BODYARMOR, a line of sports performance and hydration beverages that is incremental to the Coca-Cola beverage portfolio and has significant potential for long-term growth. In 2018, Coca-Cola initially acquired a 15% stake in BODYARMOR with a path to full ownership, based on a pre-determined discount. Coca-Cola is paying $5.6 billion in cash for the remaining 85% of the company. BODYARMOR will be managed as a separate business within Coca-Cola’s North America operating unit and will continue to be based in New York. Under a separate consulting and transition-services agreement, the executive leadership team, including co-founder and chairman Mike Repole and President Brent Hastie, has agreed to continue to work to maintain the brand’s successful momentum in the market. They are committed to executing BODYARMOR’s 2022 plan and working on vision and strategy for 2023 and beyond. 10 Food & Drink International www.fdiforum.net on line Key Technology introduces VERYX® digital sorters for pet foods Key Technology, a member of the Duravant family of operating companies, introduces VERYX® digital sorters for pet food products. VERYX, which integrates seamlessly with Key’s world-class material handling systems, inspects the product stream to detect and remove foreign material and products with defects to improve product quality and. eliminate the chance of cross-contamination, while at the same time minimizing labour. VERYX eliminates the need for manual inspection, which decreases labour costs and ensures more consistent foreign material and defect removal while maximizing yields. Thanks to in-air inspection, VERYX sees all sides of the product with no blind spots. It can be configured to sort a wide range of pet foods. Marco Azzaretti, Director of Marketing at Key, said: “Consumers are demanding higher and higher quality pet food, and VERYX can help manufacturers elevate their product quality to the level of human grade while improving the efficiency of their operation.” For more information visit www.key.net evian collaborates with Moncler to release a new limited-edition bottle designed by artist Not Vital evian has revealed its latest designer collaboration with pioneering global luxury brand, Moncler. The collaboration sees a re- imagined, limited-edition 75cL glass bottle and strikingly unique art form hit shelves across multiple markets, perfect for gifting ahead of the holiday season. With a heritage that sits firmly in the mountains, Moncler is known for its unique and innovative approach to design. Its clothing and accessories for men, women and children radiate both on the slopes and on the streets. Staying true to its one house, all voices philosophy, Moncler also invites international visionaries into its world of Moncler Genius to co-create and take the hallmarks of quality, performance and aesthetics beyond the limit of conventions. Reinventing the imagination and pushing boundaries, Moncler is a statement, a symbol and a lifestyle. As part of the collaboration, evian and Moncler have commissioned Swiss artist, Not Vital, to design a customised bottle design for the 75cL glass format. Marking the first time evian has worked with a contemporary artist, the one-of-a- kind collaboration reinforces the brand’s aptitude for inspiring collaborations. © adobe.stock.com/monticellllo Gold&Green® Foods launch new plant-based protein ingredients range Gold&Green® Foods has expanded its plant protein range with the launch of Gold&Green® Protein Ingredients, a 100% vegan ingredient range made with just three components. As the plant-based megatrend continues to sweep the nation – the market is set to triple globally by 2027* - the all-new ingredients for manufacturing, Gold&Green® Protein Flakes (Shortlisted in The Caterer Supplier Awards 2021) and Gold&Green® Protein Granules will make it easy for manufacturers to meet demand for the growing number of vegetarians and flexitarian consumers. Made from oat bran, pea and faba bean protein, Gold&Green® Protein Ingredients are completely clean label and neutral in flavour. The range offers endless possible sweet and savoury applications including burgers, veggie patties, balls, and falafels, as well as fillings for plant-based pastries, pies and dumplings. Incredibly versatile, they can also be used in sandwiches and wraps for food-to-go solutions and ready meals, along with bakery products, granola and even smoothies to pack a protein punch. 04-11.qxp_Layout 1 22/11/2021 12:00 Page 7on the shelf Wheyhey’s new limited edition boozy ice cream Wheyhey – the sugar free, high protein ice cream brand – has announced it’s launching a trio of boozy ice creams in three classic Christmas flavours to get Brits feeling festive this year, launching on 16th November for £6 per tub. Combining two of the UK’s favourite things, ice cream and booze, the limited- edition range comes in a Mulled Wine, Champagne, and Eggnog flavour. There’s no denying that some of the best moments are shared over a drink at Christmas, so Wheyhey has stepped in to make sure magical moments can also be enjoyed while eating their creamy and boozy desserts. The first from the trio that is set to launch is Mulled Wine. Next, inspired by Brits favourite Christmas tipple, is a Champagne infused ice cream that melts luxuriously in the mouth. And finally, if your idea of a true Christmas libation is a mug of eggnog topped with a cinnamon stick – this tub is for you. Showstopping Sushi Daily centrepieces available at Waitrose and Asda this Christmas KellyDeli brand Sushi Daily is launching 11 Christmas-themed sushi products as part of its new and exclusive festive range this year. For those looking for a healthier alternative to the usual cheeseboards and canapes, or for those who simply aren’t a fan of the conventional Christmas classics, the new range offers something for everyone – even a substitute to the extravagant turkey dinner thanks to the eye-catching festive-coloured party platters. Available from the 23 November, customers can watch the products being freshly hand- made by artisans at Sushi Daily’s open kitchens found in convenient locations across the UK, including select Waitrose and Asda stores. From invitingly rich flavours, such as smoked salmon and cream cheese, to vibrant red pepper garnishes, golden-coloured mango and deep crimson tuna, this new range provides a beautiful yet unconventional Christmas alternative. The menu also features Hiramasa Kingfish, one of the most esteemed fish to eat as sashimi. Saicho launches new rare tea – Eight Immortals This November, premium sparkling tea brand Saicho is set to launch a new Rare Tea Collection which will build on the brand’s exciting range of gastronomic teas. The new collection will offer tea connoisseurs and discerning drinkers the chance to try some of the world’s most exquisite teas. The first tea in the collection, Eight Immortals is a Chinese oolong tea which has elegant spiced aromas and complex bittersweet notes on the palate. This sophisticated sparkling tea is named after one of China’s most well-known myths about the legendary Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea and is a rare Dan Cong tea cultivar from Guangdong province, China. The tea is grown on Phoenix Mountain which is celebrated for its mineral-rich soils, foggy climate and rocky landscape. Designed to be served chilled in a Champagne glass this rare tea provides aromas of nectarine, ginger, sweet baking spices and confit peach with an underlying earthiness on the nose. A bitterness reminiscent of blood orange is followed by herbal characters of anise, fennel and tarragon, making it ideal for pairing with soft cheeses or lightly spiced dishes. Luscombe’s New Devon Christmas Cocktail edit New for Christmas, premium organic soft drinks producer Luscombe Drinks has launched its limited edition ‘Devon Christmas Cocktail Edit’. Perfect for gifting or simply enjoying at home with a loved one, the luxury edit features two original seasonal cocktail recipes ‘Open Fire’ and ‘The Sicilian’ created exclusively for Luscombe by master mixologist Louis Xavier Lewis-Smith. Showcasing Devon’s finest soft drinks and spirits, Luscombe’s ‘Devon Christmas Cocktail Edit’ contains all the ingredients you’ll need to recreate two servings of each of the festive cocktails including ingredients, glassware, garnishes and a recipe booklet. Presented in a beautiful recyclable box, ‘Devon Christmas Cocktail Edit’ is available from luscombe.co.uk, £38. Combining the warmth of Luscombe’s famous multi-award-winning Hot Ginger Beer with Hattiers Rum and the sweetness of honey and chestnuts, with the zing of lime, ‘Open Fire’ is perfect for kicking off the festive season. To create this stunning tipple at home ‘Devon Christmas Cocktail Edit’ includes a 270ml bottle of organic Hot Ginger Beer, two 50ml miniatures of either Hattiers Resolute Navy Strength Rum or Hattiers Egremont Premium Reserve Rum, 30ml Chestnut Liqueur, natural Devon honey from Stone’s Honey and a dehydrated lime wheel. Food & Drink International 11 www.fdiforum.net Wall’s Pastry launches two new vegan microwave slices Wall’s Pastry is bringing a smile to vegan snackers across the nation, as it expands its popular range of microwavable slices with two new vegan flavours. The Red Thai Curry Slice and Hearty Chilli Bean Slice will accompany Wall’s Pastry’s existing microwave range, which includes Mexican Chicken Fajita, Chilli Beef Burrito, Nacho Chilli Cheese, and Piri- Piri Chicken. The 100% plant-based products will launch from Thursday 11 November in selected UK Tesco stores. The slices are a modern twist on the brand’s iconic product range of sausage rolls and other savoury pastries. They showcase flavours from around the world and can be consumed both at home and on-the-go. Mike Holton, brand manager at Wall’s Pastry, said: “With the growing demand for vegan products, we really wanted to create a new offering for our plant- based customers. Moving away from meat-eating should never mean compromising on taste, or convenience.” 04-11.qxp_Layout 1 22/11/2021 12:00 Page 812 Food & Drink International www.fdiforum.net IMPORT AND EXPORT Trade restrictions meet diversification In another year of COVID-19 and strain with its top export market, Australia has shown adaptability when it comes to exporting. 12-15.qxp_Layout 1 22/11/2021 12:02 Page 1Food & Drink International 13 www.fdiforum.net IMPORT AND EXPORT It has been a mixed picture for Australian food and drink exports over the past couple of years, with new deals and significant challenges - declines in export prices for numerous commodities, decreased red meat production, shipping issues and costs, and trade restrictions. According to Rural Bank’s Australian Agricultural Trade 2020/21 report, the value of Australian agricultural exports reached $49.6 billion in 2020/21, a 0.8% decline from 2019/20. Just cropping and dairy were reported to have experienced an increase in export value in 2020/21, mitigating other downturns, the former increasing 73.3% at a value of $5.6 billion and the latter 7.3% (+$184 million). Exports are anticipated to rebound over the year ahead, however, with export value of most commodities set to bounce back as export markets recover from COVID-19. In the meantime a major difficulty for Australia is its relationship with its key export market, China, which currently sits on rocky ground. Food exports have been hit by trade restrictions and disruptions after the countries’ relationship broke down with the Australian government leading a call for an independent inquiry into the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan in April 2020. Anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties, totalling 80.5%, have since been placed © stock.adobe.com/andy 14 Á 12-15.qxp_Layout 1 22/11/2021 12:02 Page 214 Food & Drink International www.fdiforum.net IMPORT AND EXPORT on Australian barley (in May 2020), impacting a billion-dollar trade between the countries, which China said came following an inquiry confirming dumping by Australia and resulting damage on its domestic industry. Australia supplies around 40% of China’s overseas barley purchases. Meanwhile imports from some of Australia’s largest meat processors were suspended, and beef producers have lost export licences - Australia makes up as much as 18% of China’s beef imports. Sugar and wheat have also arisen as targets and wine hit particularly hard by tariffs up to 218% (for which in the year to September 2021, exports to China decreased by 77%), cutting competitiveness and seeing the World Trade Organisation agree to establish a panel to examine China’s imposition of duties on Australian wine. The influence of restrictions on Australia’s exports however is not as harsh as expected. Though food exports to China have slipped, Australia has found and continues to explore alternate markets for products, though they may not be as lucrative, with barley for example redirected to Saudi Arabia and Southeast Asia, and recently lobster producers have been noted to be using unofficial routes, or “grey channels,” to the Chinese market as well as redirecting goods to other Southeast Asian countries. Difficulties remain, however, in finding a location that can take the volume being produced. According to Oxford Economics, the goods worst affected by Chinese restrictions include beverages, seafood, cereals, and sugar. In a year of diversification, Rural Bank’s Australian Agricultural Trade 2020/21 report indicates that exports to countries outside Australia’s top five markets (China, Japan, US, Indonesia, South Korea) increased by $4.3 billion 12-15.qxp_Layout 1 22/11/2021 12:03 Page 3Food & Drink International 15 www.fdiforum.net IMPORT AND EXPORT © stock.adobe.com/millefloreimages (+20.8%) in 2020/21, with growth noted in Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Belgium, and Thailand, yet China remained the top export market, accounting for 21.8% of total exports, despite a decline of $3.8 billion (-26.2 per cent) over the year. While no single market can fill the hole formed by China’s restrictions there is a promising future ahead in other markets. New opportunities are also providing greater access to Australia, for instance a recently signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment and DT Global will grow agricultural trade between Pacific Island countries and Australia, through improved food security, better market access and biosecurity outcomes. Moreover, a significant new chapter has begun with the UK’s new trade agreement with Australia, giving Australian producers and farmers greater access to the UK market. This has not been without controversy and concern, particularly on the UK side, with forecasts of increased competition for British farmers. Meanwhile there have been worries that the deal will see the UK trade with partners allowed to export food of lower standards, though the UK government says it will not allow entry to low standard imports. There are, on the other hand, opportunities of course, primarily in dairy, with Australia a net-importer of cheese. The free trade deal eliminates tariffs on all UK goods, and means iconic British products like Scotch whisky and biscuits will be cheaper to sell into Australia. The government states British farmers will be protected by a cap on tariff-free imports for 15 years, using tariff rate quotas and other safeguards. Further, the deal will eliminate tariffs on Australian favourites like Jacob’s Creek and Hardys wines, and confectionery. Looking to the - near - future, Australia’s Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment has forecast strong export growth in 2021/22, with the value of agricultural exports expected to be a record, increasing by 12% to $54.7 billion. Growth is forecast for most of Australia’s major export commodities (e.g. beef, veal, lamb, sugar, wheat, canola, barley) with crop exports making the largest contribution to growth, driven by higher forecast prices for most crops, continued high export volumes, and poor growing conditions in key grain exporters including the United States, the Russian Federation and Canada. © stock.adobe.com/teen00000 12-15.qxp_Layout 1 22/11/2021 12:03 Page 416 Food & Drink International www.fdiforum.net END OF YEAR SUCCESS STORIES It’s been a tough year, a turbulent year, but that hasn’t stopped businesses in the food and drink industry rising to the occasion. As we come to the end of 2021 it’s always a moment to look back over the year and look at what has been achieved. This has, predictably, been an easier task in other years. It’s no exaggeration to say 2021 has been a rough year. That’s probably an understatement. In truth, the year has been one of the hardest faced by any industry and there are a lot of businesses who have proven unable to weather the storm. They have unfortunately been forced to close and economies in numerous countries have suffered for it. That, however, is only one side of the coin. While some businesses have faltered others have prospered, and no matter how difficult conditions have been – and they have been very difficult – the fact that the industry has adapted to them only goes to show how resilient 2021 in review 16-21.qxp_Layout 1 22/11/2021 12:07 Page 1Food & Drink International 17 www.fdiforum.net END OF YEAR SUCCESS STORIES © adobe.stock.com/zhu difeng we are. More than that, the measures taken to run business leaner, more efficiently and through lockdown may become the new normal. It was a given that the food and drink industry could not truly fail - not without most of humankind starving. This fact forced adaptation in supply chains, with empty shelves being a problem in the early stages of the lockdown. Brexit added its own hurdles, especially for HGV drivers, that further strained the supply chain. Yet again, the industry persevered, new measures were implemented and companies adapted. In the EU and the UK, Brexit added its own complications. While the impact of Brexit has already been felt, complicating numerous exports and import deals and adding heaps of red tape, the industry has quickly come to terms that the Governments involved (as of the time of writing immersed in a sleaze scandal) are not likely to come and solve the issue any time soon. Brexit has not been the simple and easy thing it was promised to be and was likely never meant to be, and the onus has yet again been on food and drink 18 Á 16-21.qxp_Layout 1 22/11/2021 12:08 Page 218 Food & Drink International www.fdiforum.net END OF YEAR SUCCESS STORIES Tel: 020 8446 7127 | Email: info@halalfoodauthority.com | www.halalfoodauthority.com | halalfoodauthorityUK | @HFA_UK Established in 1994, we specialise in the Halal Certification of Beverages, Dairy, Confectionery, Food Ingredients Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics. We also certify Chicken, Lamb and Beef Slaughterhouses, Cutting Portioning/Further processing plants and Ready Meals manufacturers. We are accredited to certify in the Gulf region including UAE (ESMA), The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and all other Middle Eastern countries. HFA's Certificate is recognised in Malaysia (JAKIM), Indonesia (MUI), Singapore (MUIS), Turkey (GIMDES), Thailand (CICOT), Pakistan, OIC (SMIIC) and the rest of the world. manufacturers to find their own way to navigate the choppy waters. In the first quarter of the year, British food and drink exports to the EU fell by a staggering £2 billion. This has for the most part been due to red tape, which has complicated matters that should otherwise be solved simply. Exports from Ireland to the UK have similarly dropped 20%. Much of the confusion comes from what is approved and unapproved, with previously agreed upon standards now being left up in the air. For instance, the EU may soon refuse British-made pies because the meat no longer comes from approved farms – mainly because the agreements over what is an “approved farm” or not are now muddied between the EU and UK. It may be that the farms used would have previously been fine, but now due to the lack of any middle ground they are classified as substandard simply because the EU cannot verify otherwise. That businesses are expected to manage despite this – with the Government calling for more food manufacturers to “sell to the world” is a bittersweet matter. It shows how effective and independent our food industry is that it can sufficiently manage such trying times without any kind of support, but that only reflects poorly on governing bodies for forcing businesses to do so in the first place. That is perhaps the reality of our industry from 2021 – not that it has suffered or that businesses have failed, but that they have instead been forced to rise to new heights they realistically should not have had to. Ideally, and perhaps once the pandemic is well and truly dealt with, the Government will get back onto fixing these problems and supporting the industry as they © adobe.stock.com/DedMityay 20 Á 16-21.qxp_Layout 1 22/11/2021 12:08 Page 3Go nature. Go carton. Today only 13.5% of global waste is recycled 1. What if food packaging were always recycled and never became litter? Tetra Pak ® carton packages are already recyclable 2. But we won’t stop there. As part of our ambition to deliver the world’s most sustainable food package 3, we’re always exploring new ways to expand the value and use of recycled materials from cartons, helping them find new life as park benches, roof tiles, paper towels and many other valuable products. That’s how we keep the materials in use for as long as possible. Learn more at gonature.tetrapak.com 1. The World Bank, What a Waste 2.0. 2. Carton packages are collected and recycled worldwide, where waste management and recycling infrastructure is in place 3. Made solely from responsibly sourced renewable or recycled materials, fully recyclable and carbon neutral. What if all used food packaging were turned into useful products? 191879_TetraPak_GNGC_Ad_Recycle_Food&Drink_International_210x297_Global.indd 113/09/2021 16.58 16-21.qxp_Layout 1 22/11/2021 12:08 Page 4Next >