Coca-Cola system's 5by20 women empowerment programme has equipped 2 million women entrepreneurs in Africa...
Heineken has stated a new ambition to decarbonise its production by 2030 and its full value chain by 2040...
Covid-19 accelerated e-commerce around the globe and forced retailers to shift to digital...
The topic of sustainable textile development will be discussed by a panel at the upcoming Zone 22 Rotary Africa Centennial International Conference...
Tanda enables shops in Kenya to be access points for financial services including banking, insurance, and utility payments...
When the Ever Given container ship choked off traffic in the Suez Canal for almost a week in late March 2021, it made headlines around the world...
Nada R. Sanders 12 Apr 2021
Target will add products from more than 500 Black-owned businesses across its multi-category assortment and increase its spend with more Black-owned companies...
Easter is the biggest chocolate-buying time of the year. But who's really paying for the cost of that chocolate?
John Dumay and James Guthrie 6 Apr 2021
Africa's e-commerce platform Jumia has announced the launch of its Food Festival Campaign. The campaign, which will run until 11 April 2021, is organised in partnership with local restaurants and supermarkets, as well as blue-chip international restaurant chains such as KFC, Pizza Inn and Burger King...
Women-led Kenyan design house wins Fashionomics Africa sustainable design competition for turning fruit waste into eco-friendly footwear...
By 2025, e-commerce will expand by an additional $1.4tn, and account for half the growth in the global retail sector...
Danone's chief executive and chairman, Emmanuel Faber, is to step down after activist shareholders called for his removal...
Arturo Bris 23 Mar 2021
Thanks to platforms that link online consumption to local interests, the desire to buy local, a trend fuelled by the Covid-19 pandemic, is giving rise to a new phenomenon known as digital localism...
Myriam Ertz, Damien Hallegatte, Imen Latrous and Julien Bousquet 19 Mar 2021
Corona has introduced a new circular form of packaging for its six-packs, made using repurposed surplus barley straw...
RCL Foods and US plant-based food collective Livekindly Collective have established a local plant-based joint venture, Livekindly Collective Africa...
Best-in-class innovators are presented with an opportunity to be future Nestlé suppliers...
The early estimate for 2021's wheat output is positive but 45 countries are in need of external assistance for food...
Until the 2000s, Sub-Saharan Africa was de-industrialising: the mood was gloomy as the little manufacturing activity that did exist was disappearing. But the trend has reversed...
Gaaitzen de Vries, Emmanuel B Mensah, Hagen Kruse and Kunal Sen 2 Mar 2021
Plastic pollution and climate change are two prominent environmental issues of our time...
Xia Zhu 1 Mar 2021
The inaugural Made in Africa Conference and Expo, a large virtual gathering and showcase for African buyers and sellers, will take place on 13 and 14 April...
Inmed Aquaponics Social Enterprise is among the first to receive capital through Mondelez International's new impact investing platform Sustainable Futures...
How geographical indications can provide economic and financial advantages to a product's place of origin...
Samuel Samiai Andrews 24 Feb 2021
P&G announced new declarations aimed to propel gender equality across Africa, Asia Pacific and the Middle East at its third #WeSeeEqual summit for the region...
Across Africa fast food restaurants have spread at a rapid rate, driven by rising income levels, rapid urbanisation and changing eating habits and lifestyles...
James Boafo 11 Feb 2021
Amazon announced Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO almost 27 years after he founded the company to sell books to customers over dial-up modems...
Venkatesh Shankar 4 Feb 2021
Jeff Bezos is stepping down from his role as Amazon CEO, and will transition to the role of executive chair in the third quarter...
In a new study published in Nature Communications, my colleagues and I find a stark confirmation that microplastics are found throughout the Arctic Ocean...
Peter S. Ross 1 Feb 2021
PepsiCo and Beyond Meat have teamed up to form The PLANeT Partnership, a joint venture to develop, produce and market snack and beverage products made from plant-based protein...
Ethiopia has long been considered one of Africa's economic wunderkinds. But for the past two months, violent conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region fuelled by ethnic power politics has threatened the country's stability...
Dorothee Baumann-Pauly 21 Jan 2021
PepsiCo plans to more than double its science-based climate goal, targeting a reduction of absolute greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by more than 40% by 2030...
