Suntory PepsiCo Beverage (Thailand) Co., Ltd. has unveiled Lipton Ice Tea Raspberry. The new low sugar RTD tea offers the delightful sweet and sour raspberry flavour. The drink comes in 445ml PET bottle and is available at 7-Eleven outlets.
The company has previously launched Lipton Herbal Blends “Hibiscus Sabdariffa & Cherry Blossom” and Lipton Herbal Blends “Rooibos & White Peach”.
Thai beverage producer FoodStar has released a new range of high vitamin C juice drink DeeDo Max C that provides 200% of the daily dietary vitamin C needs. DeeDo Max C taps into the vitamin added beverage trend in Thailand. It is available in three flavours – Yuzu, Mandarin and Calamansi in two packaging format such as carton and PET bottle.
17 August 2021 – Sappe PCL, as the leader in the beverage market, continues its mission in developing and inventing new and innovative products for customers, including nutrient-rich Gumi Gumi Jelly. The company has launched Gumi Gumi Jelly in several flavors ranging from lychee, grape to orange with high vitamin C and B. The latest item is Gumi Gumi Jelly with yoghurt flavor created for school children, who learn from home during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Gumi Gumi Yoghurt Jelly was launched to target young customers, aged 7-18, who love yoghurt or fermented milk. The new flavor jelly not only adds more fun, but also helps make your stomach full with essential nutrients. It is highly rich in vitamin B3, B5, B6 and B12 to help relieve stress and nourish brain for students, who need special care as they have to learn from home amid the pandemic. The item is now available at 12 baht.
Apart from conveying a direct message to the end consumers, Gumi Gumi Yoghurt Jelly also aims at the parent group, including mothers who are able to observe pain points of their children while studying online. Stress is among the pain points that the students may encounter in virtual class.
As parents have major influence in acquiring products for their children during this unusual period, Gumi Gumi Yoghurt Jelly eyes to be a delicious item to extend happiness to all, and be an alternative sweet for physical nourishment in the current situation.
Functional beauty drink maker Sappe PCL, which also owns All Coco, has made available All Coco Creamy Vegetarian Soup in three SKUs. The soups contain All Coco’s Nam Hom coconut to deliver high quality ingredients, resulting in delicious soups for coconut lovers. The soups are sold frozen.
Sappe has also launched Coconut Cream Soup as part of All Coco’s 7th anniversary.
The coconut soup shows the versatility of coconut in food application. It also highlights the moves by coconut producer to expand the consumption occasions of coconut-derived products.
Sappe PCL has launched two new beauty drinks with a less sweet formula that help boost the immunity as well as improving the skin complexion. Beauty Booster contains chlorophyll, zinc, vitamin E and vitamin B5 to help detox and enhance immunity as well as delivering skin benefit. Beauti Immu-C contains 200% beta-glucan, zinc and vitamin C to help fight free radicals, boost immunity and help to improve the skin.
Thailand’s TCP Group has launched the new Sponsor FITT Drink with specialised ingredients to support workout. The new Sponsor FITT Drink comes in two variants: Sponsor FITT Drink with L-Carnitine and White Kidney Bean Extract to burn fat faster as well as Sponsor FITT Drink with Branched Chain Amino Acid (BCAA) for muscle building. The sports drink has 0% calories and 0% sugar.
We have seen more RTD sports drink including BCAA to support the need of fitness junkies. For example, Powerade Ultra in the US is a sport and performance-focused beverage featuring creatine monohydrate, BCAAs, and 50% more electrolytes. In Malaysia and Vietnam, Ajinomoto has made available Amino Vital with amino acids.
Thai Union’s Sealect processed seafood now comes in an intense authentic Thai spicy flavour. The canned tuna can serve as the food accompaniment or eaten on its own. The product is rich in protein and omega 3. Sealect stable canned tuna brand is the number 1 in the Thai market.
Thai Union has previously collaborated with Pa Waen, a well-known local brand for Thai mixed chili paste, to launch Thai-style tuna flakes.
We have seen canned seafood players in the region upgrading the spicy taste as a means to recruit spicy lovers to the category.
Thailand’s Berli Jucker Public Company Limited has launched Kato Unicorn Winter Mixed Fruit as a limited edition flavour. Unicorn is popular in Thailand and we have seen a similar launch in 2020 by Dutch Mill with a unicorn flavoured yogurt drink. The latest juice drink comes in four collectable designs with a chance to win an interesting unicorn t-shirt.
PT Tiga Pilar Sejahtera Food Tbk has introduced Mie Kremezz Krezz in Indonesia. Unlike the existing product in the market, the new snack noodle is already premixed with the seasoning. Now consumers can enjoy the snack, which comes in Mi Goreng flavour, straight from the pack. The elimination of the process of adding the seasoning is in line with the hygienic one hand snacking trend.
● 64% of respondents have digitalized 50% or more of their tasks, as have 74% of respondents who areMSME owners, in one of the largest youth surveys in ASEAN.
● Advanced digital users tended to be more economically resilient during the pandemic and they are calling for more digitalization, particularly in the finance sector.
● Intergenerational skills transfer, particularly from youths to the older generation, can be key to addressing digital skills gaps in the region. 36% of respondents taught others how to use digital tools during the pandemic.
Singapore, 13 October 2021 – In collaboration with the World Economic Forum (WEF), Sea has launched a special edition of the annual ASEAN youth survey report series, entitled ASEAN Digital Generation Report 2021. It examined the impact of the pandemic on personal income, savings, and the role of digitalization in the region’s economic recovery. The survey, which invited participation from close to 86,000 respondents, also flagged the gaps needed to build a more inclusive and sustainable economy, namely: access to technology, digital skills training for all generations, and measures to enhance online trust and security.
While MSME owners reported a decline in income during the pandemic, the survey’s findings confirm e-commerce’s role as the key driver of growth in ASEAN. The wholesale and retail trade sector had the highest proportion of people starting new businesses (50%), while the logistics sector had the highest share of people finding new jobs (36%).
Findings revealed that a majority of respondents have adapted to the challenges of the pandemic through significant digital adoption: Across ASEAN, 64% of respondents have digitalized 50% or more of their tasks, as have 74% of respondents who are MSME owners. Respondents who reported greater levels of digitalization of their work and business indicated lower levels of income decline. Similarly, business owners with an online presence were more likely to report an increase in savings (24%) and income (28%) compared to those without one (18%).
However, the benefits of digitalization were observed to be unevenly spread across the region. Those who are “less digitalized” found pursuing further digital adoption less appealing. As in 2020, respondents continued to point to expensive or poor internet quality or digital services as the top barriers to digital adoption. While less digitalized respondents identified digital skills as a key additional obstacle, more digitalized respondents highlighted factors such as trust and security concerns instead.
The identified obstacles were consistent across respondents from all six countries surveyed. This has reinforced the need for multi-stakeholder and regional joint actions to unlock the full potential of ASEAN in the digital age and narrow these gaps.
“Through this annual survey, we wanted to understand the views, priorities and concerns of the digital users in ASEAN and gain statistical insights that will help inform and shape relevant regional policy,” said Joo-Ok Lee, Head of the Regional Agenda, Asia Pacific, World Economic Forum. “The survey showed improving the quality and affordability of ASEAN digital infrastructure, equipping ASEAN workforce with appropriate skills and enhancing people’s trust in the digital environment are crucial to bring ASEAN over the tipping point for inclusive and sustainable digital transformation,” he added.
“One of the key findings was that digitalization has a ‘flywheel’ effect wherein users who had first experienced the benefits of technology were more eager to deepen their levels of digitalization. On that note, it is critical for the public and private sectors to work even more closely to minimize any friction and barriers which may prevent the positive digitalization momentum from taking place. Through this, digitalization can enable post-pandemic recovery in an inclusive and sustainable way,” said Santitarn Sathirathai, Group Chief Economist of Sea.
Since 2017, this is an annual report conducted and analysed in partnership with the World Economic Forum (WEF). Between July and August 2021, the survey polled users from six ASEAN countries – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Some 77% of respondents were youths aged between 16 and 35, 56% of them being female and 10% are business owners.
This year’s edition continues to monitor the impact of the pandemic on respondents, explores how the ongoing digitalization has benefited their life and society in the real economy, what stands in their way of further digitalization and maximization of such benefits, and how to tackle the identified obstacles.
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