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What influences SA's food and meal preferences? New research tells all

September 28 2026 By BMi Research insights, food, fmcg, qsr

When do South Africans prefer to eat takeaways? How are delivery apps changing food and grocery shopping? What influences the food choices - price, convenience, specials, social gatherings, online searches or AI? These are among the questions that Caxton Media's Project EAT answers in this year's national eating and food shopping behaviour survey. This is the second year that this survey has been run. It captures the real eating and food-shopping...

Refreshing 2023 performance by ready-to-drink beverage sector

June 24 2024 By BMi Research rtd market, soft drinks, fruit juice, sports drinks, bmi research, beverage trends, consumer insights, promotions, packaging innovation, retail performance, economic pressure, sparkling juice, pet bottles, south african beverages, fmcg insights, market growth, shopper behaviour, beverage sector

The ready-to-drink (RTD) cold drink market, including sparkling soft drinks (SSDs), fruit juices and sports drinks, experienced positive volume growth in 2023, with SSD volumes surpassing pre-Covid levels, new research from BMi Research has revealed. Ready-to-drink sports drinks recorded the biggest volume jump, achieving almost double-digit growth, followed by SSDs, which grew at half that rate. Ready-to-drink fruit juices was the slowest perf...