PT Calbee Wings Food has launched Japota rasa Ayam Bawang (Chicken Onion Flavoured Potato Chips). The company has also appointed actor Adipati Dolken as the brand ambassador of Japota.
The reason for launching chicken onion flavoured potato chips is to tap into the sense of nostalgia as chicken onion is a familiar flavour to Indonesians. Japota is also the first to launch the chicken onion flavoured potato chips in the country.
Ajinomoto Việt Nam has launched culinary aid for children aged 6 to 24 months. Known as “Măm Măm“, the nutrition supplementary food contains 10 essential micro-nutrients including vitamin B complex (B3, B1, B6, B9, B12), vitamin C, D3, calcium, zinc and iron to support baby’s development.
The new product also helps mothers to make their home cooked baby meals (liquid or paste) more appetising to the little ones.
The recommended dose is 1 sachet (2g)/day. The product is suitable for daily use and comes with an expiry date of 12 months.
Indonesia’s Bali Hai Brewery has announced the official launch of Bali Hai Romantic Day Lager.
“In the spirit of celebrating Indonesia as a romantic holiday destination, Bali Hai Brewery Indonesia and their South Korean distribution partner, mashed in a new collaboration brew. With Tropical Golden Lager profile that lends notes of a tropical vibe, Bali Hai Romantic Day Lager is accentuated by a refreshing, crisp, and clean taste. Making it the perfect tropical enjoyment.”
The series include day and night to illustrate the romantic island of Bali during the day and during the night.
Bali Hai Romantic Day Lager has an ABV of 5%.
Now your drinks comes with even more ‘kick. Together with Malaysia’s beloved burger maestro, myBurgerLab, Tiger brings you an out-of-the-box, bold and tangy hot sauce with a chicken rice chilli twist!
Enjoy a FREE Lat Jiu Chilli Sauce bottle when you order 2×6 cans of Tiger Crystal or 24 cans of Tiger Crystal throughout June, exclusively on Drinkies. An ice-cold Tiger with the bold flavours of street food … Now that’s a match made in heaven.
Order via the Drinkies app or on www.drinkies.my before it’s too late!
Malaysia’s MAMEE-Double Decker (M) has upsized the Corntoz corn snack from 50g to 100g to give consumers more value for money. The bigger, bolder 100g pack is available in Chilli Cheese, Hot & Spicy, Smokey BBQ.
NESCAFE BLEND & BREW Invests 700 Million Bt to Introduce New Campaign Presenters Nadech & Yaya will Reinforce “Well-Blended Taste and Aroma Completely in a Stick” Concept
Friday 11 June 2021 – NESCAFE BLEND & BREW is exciting the coffee mixes market by investing 700 million baht to launch a marketing campaign called “Beyond the Goodness You can See, There’s Even Greater Quality Inside,” its biggest campaign in five years. The campaign introduces superstar couple Nadech Kugimiya and Urassaya (Yaya) Sperbund as NESCAFE BLEND & BREW’s new presenters. They are inviting consumers to enjoy a coffee-in-a-stick experience with a great taste like “KafeSod,” or fresh roasted and ground coffee, which reflects the new brand concept of “Well-Blended Taste and Great Aroma Completely in a Stick.” The first phase of activities is rolling out to create a #KafeSodNadechYayaCoffee trend to delight coffee lovers and consumers nationwide who are staying at home.
With a 55% market share, NESCAFE BLEND & BREW is the leader in Thailand’s 14,900 million Baht coffee mixes market.
Instant coffee offers a solid growth opportunity thanks to increasing in-home coffee consumption. The key factor driving this growth is more consumers staying at home, with coffee mixes the perfect choice to meet their demands in terms of value for money, convenience, and great taste, plus no need to go out to drink coffee (Source: Nielsen Retail Index).
Ms. Sriprapha Chingprasertsuk, Business Manager – Soluble Coffee and Creamer, Nestle (Thai) Ltd., said, “We are capitalizing on the rising popularity of in-home coffee consumption by creating a new NESCAFE BLEND & BREW campaign to excite the market in the second half of the year. We are very pleased to announce the first collaboration between the number one coffee brand in Thailand and famous superstar couple Nadech and Yaya. NESCAFE is one of the first brands in the market with a major campaign to share the meaningful story of their bonding and connections beyond what we can see. We expect to expand our consumer base of ‘KafeSod’ coffee lovers and new groups of consumers while encouraging coffee drinking at home.”
For the first phase of marketing activities, NESCAFE has produced 30-second and 15-second commercials entitled
“Well-Blended Taste and Great Aroma Completely.” They tell a great story of two people who understand each other’s minds. As coffee lovers, they know what is good and only choose the best for each other. Nadech knows Yaya very well and chooses to make a cup of NESCAFE BLEND & BREW for her in the morning, delivering the aroma and well-blended taste of finely roasted & ground coffee made from two types of beans, Arabica and Robusta. The commercials started airing on leading television stations and digital media nationwide as well as NESCAFE’s Facebook page and YouTube channel www.youtube.com/…XEAOPJE on June 10, 2021.
Creative out-of-home billboards highlighting the product’s aroma with wordplays such as “How far will the great aroma of this stick reach?; PhaHomyothin, RatchaDomphisek, or Sudkhumvit; Come to Phuket, the beach is cool; NESCAFE is aromatic” and so on launched this month in Bangkok and major provinces nationwide including Khon Kaen, Nakhon Ratchasima, Udon Thani, Buriram, Ubon Ratchathani, Hat Yai, Phuket, and Nakhon Si Thammarat.
“With the activities in the first phase, we aim to reach 50 million consumers nationwide and create a trend of #KafeSodNadechYaya throughout the country. This will reinforce our leadership in the coffee mixes market. In the meantime, we are developing new marketing activities to create even more excitement for coffee lovers soon,” concluded Ms. Sriprapha.
Coffee lovers can enjoy “Well-Blended Taste and Great Aroma Completely in a Stick” with the four variants of NESCAFE BLEND & BREW, which are Rich Aroma, Espresso Roast, Less Sugar, and No Sugar. They are available in retail shops, convenience stores, and supermarkets nationwide as well as on Nestle’s digital channels: Lazada at bit.ly/…3rhWOQO and Shopee at bit.ly/…39cxkyl
Thursday 10 June 2021 – Charoen Pokphand Foods PCL (CP Foods) moves forwards to its Climate Change Action Plan prioritizing on increasing productivity by lowering energy consumption, promoting renewable energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, decreasing food loss and zero food waste, as well as conserve, protect and restore watershed and mangrove forests through the low-carbon organization goal in bid to drive the United Nations’ target the “Decades of Ecological Restoration”.
Mr. Wuthichai Sithipreedanant, Senior Vice President – Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development of CP Foods, said that the Company realizes on the importance of operating business in line with the conservation and restoration of environmental balance sustainability. Under business challenges including climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company has launched six climate change action plans aimed at driving forward to achieve “Low-carbon Organzation”.
The action plans comprise
1. Increase production efficiency by reducing energy consumption per production unit by 15% by 2025, compared to base year 2015.
2. Promote the use of renewable energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Currently, the company’s renewable energy consumption accounted for 26% of its total energy consumption. 3. Develop ecological-friendly products such as Meat Zero products, an innovative plant-based meat, as alternative food to serve environmentally conscious consumer, low-carbon products, environmentally friendly animal feed innovations, etc.
4. Efficiency logistic system planning,
5. Reduce food loss and food waste in the Company’s manufacturing processes to zero within 2030.
6. Promote nature-based solutions through responsible sourcing, such as using maize from the area that does not damage the environment, sourcing fish meal materials from legal producers both domestic and overseas to produce aquatic feed with international traceability practice, as well as biodiversity protection through conservation, protecting, restoring watershed and mangrove forests and increasing green area around factories, which now already achieved over 10,000 rai.
CP Foods is committed to mitigating impacts and protecting the environment along with its sustainable strategies through circular economy principles. To the strategies, in 2020, the company achieved operational goals to support global conservation approaches, such as reducing water withdrawal per production units by 36% in 2020 compared to base year 2015, utilizing reused and recycled water accounted for 42% of total water consumption. Moreover, the company’s food plastic packaging are reusable or recyclable or upcyclable or compostable reached 99.99%, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 580,000 tons carbon dioxide equivalent. The successful of lower carbon emission derived from increasing energy efficiency and promoting renewable energy throughout the supply chain.
“The world is facing a major health crisis from the covid-19 pandemic and climate change that affect global economy and society to step forward slowly. We all need to work together to balance of nature sustainability. As one of the world’s leading integrated agro-industrial conglomerate, CP Foods strives to be a part of ecosystem restoration to ensure sustainable food security missions,” Mr. Wuttichai said.
The campaign aims to drive shoppers to use reusable produce bags for fruits and vegetables to foster a more sustainable way of shopping and further reduce single-use plastics
KLANG VALLEY: Village Grocer and Ben’s Independent Grocer (B.I.G) have launched a new campaign to combat single-use plastic pollution, in conjunction with the World Environment Day celebration. The campaign involves introducing the usage of reusable mesh produce bags to replace the plastic produce rolls that shoppers frequently use for weighed products.
Over 44,000 reusable produce bags will be distributed in June to drive shoppers to use the bags for their fruits and vegetables. Shoppers who spend more than RM250 at the supermarkets can redeem a reusable produce bag made of cotton using the BITES loyalty application.
“Through this campaign, we hope to see a significant reduction of plastic produce bag consumption in our stores. We encourage our shoppers to take part in this campaign and use the produce bags to carry their fresh produce items and we will be rewarding them with 20 Bites points (equivalent to 20 cents) each time they do so.
It is not an easy task to change this habit as plastic bags have been incorporated into almost every aspect of our lives, making us more comfortable. But we need play our part in reducing the amount of single-use plastic usage, contributing to the circular economy, and educating our shoppers to foster sustainable lifestyle for the betterment of our environment” said Geoff King, Chief Executive Officer of The Food Purveyor (TFP) – operator of Village Grocer and B.I.G.
Malaysia has been ranked 8th among the top ten countries with mismanaged plastic waste in the world. A study estimated that Malaysia had produced 0.94 million tons of mismanaged plastic wastes, of which 0.14 to 0.37 million tonnes may have been washed into the oceans1.
He added combating single-use plastic pollution is just not the Government’s responsibility, however, it is also the duty of all sectors alongside the Government. TFP is firm on its commitment to convert customers away from single-use plastic packaging and to adopt sustainable bag solutions for fresh produce. This initiative is a part of the company flagship environmental sustainability goal “Plastic-Free by 2023” which aims to eliminate all single-use plastic from its business operation before the end of 2023.
Since early last year, TFP has stopped implementing 20 cents plastic bag charge, eliminated single-use plastic carrier bag usage in Village Grocer and B.I.G. and managed to eliminate the need for 6 million plastic carrier bags a year. Joining this initiative is BSC Fine Foods which recently switch-off the offering of single-use plastic bags at checkout counters since 1st June 2021.
This initiative also contributes directly and indirectly to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) particularly SDG14 – Life Below Water.
Source:
https://www.kasa.gov.my/resources/pelan-halatuju-plastik.pdf
Malaysia, June 11, 2021 – As a mark of its continued commitment to the health, safety and well-being of riders, foodpanda Malaysia together with PolicyStreet today announced an all new and improved insurance scheme that offers double the protection for delivery partners in the event of any unforeseen circumstances.
Partnering once again with PolicyStreet, a leading insurance technology company, this newly introduced insurance scheme was specially curated to enable all active riders to be covered automatically for free. This method of pay first and claim later will provide riders with protection throughout their working hours and is a significant upgrade from the previous insurance protection plan.
Sayantan Das, Managing Director, foodpanda said that the riders are the backbone of the company and deserve the best protection for all the sacrifices they make day to day in delivering joy to the nation at a time where the nation depends on it.
“foodpanda is always looking for new ways and opportunities to ensure the health, safety and well-being of riders are well taken care of. Our riders are constantly facing unpredictable weather and road conditions, hence we would like to remind them that they are a priority to us and we are committed to providing them with the best insurance scheme so they have peace of mind when on duty,” he said, adding that the company emphasizes on an environment that is safe and secure.
“We are grateful to have PolicyStreet on board with us as our insurance partners. Rest assured we have a very reliable process and procedure in place, should the need for claims arise. Together, we are ready to ensure a safe and successful ride for all,” added Sayantan.
Claims of up to RM100,000 could be made in the event of one’s untimely demise or permanent loss of ability. Besides that, riders would also be entitled to claims of up to RM2,500 for any medical cost and hospital income of RM40 a day for a maximum of 30 days.
Commenting on this improved insurance plan, Yen Ming, Chief Executive Officer of PolicyStreet said, “We are excited and honoured to be the official insurance partner for foodpanda Malaysia and look forward to providing all their riders with this new and improved insurance plan. We strive to continuously innovate and curate insurance policies that provide the absolute best protection for foodpanda and its riders.”
To ensure a smooth and efficient process, riders are encouraged to have all the relevant and necessary documents for insurance claims. Some of the documents required include official medical records and receipts as well as the official police report and a copy of the rider’s IC for identification purposes.
On a separate note, foodpanda riders are also entitled to a special insurance scheme for COVID-19. Claims of up to RM300 can be made for those who are required to undergo quarantine and up to RM5,000 in the event of an untimely demise. Together, we are all about #RideSafePandas
For more info on this new insurance scheme or the procedure for claims, please visit https://www.pandariders.my/skema-insurans-foodpanda
The South Korean convenience store (c-store) chain emart24 is set to enter Malaysia, which will make emart24 the second Korean c-store in the country after CU.
“Click here for the special Minimeinsights-curated tour of the first emart24 outlet in Bangsar South.”
According to Korean news report, Shinsegae Group’s E-Mart signed an agreement with United Frontiers Holdings (UFH) to grant the latter the franchise rights to emart24 in Malaysia. UFH is a company controlled by Tan Sri Pang Tee Chew of Mamee-Double Decker.
emart24 is currently the fourth largest c-store by store network in South Korea with 5,165 outlets at the end of 2020. CU is number one at 14,923, followed by GS25 with 14,688 and 7-Eleven with 10,501.
MAMEE already has an existing relationship with Shinsegae to produce halal foods for the global market.
Emart24 Holdings Sdn Bhd has started hiring one month ago and the new entity has even set up an official Facebook page at https://web.facebook.com/emart24.my.
Both CU and emart24 will need to achieve economies of scale in order to be profitable. CU can piggyback on the existing myNEWS.com’s network including the central kitchen that myNEWS.com has set up with its Japanese partners. In fact, CU is there to help better utilise the production capacity of the ready to eat manufacturing facilities.
Another risk is emart24 shares a rather similar sounding name as Emart, which is one of the largest supermarket chains in East Malaysia.
A wish for emart24 is to replicate the entire emart24 offerings in Korea to Malaysia but this is easier said than done due to the need to ensure the products are halal and suit local taste.
Click here for the special Minimeinsights-curated tour of the first emart24 outlet in Bangsar South.
