NEWS | Industry Updates 777 food and drink


acquisitions in 2018 Last year was a record year for food and drink industry transactions, with 777 registered in Zenith Global’s bevblog.net mergers and acquisitions database, an average of 15 each week. The total is 48 more than in 2017 and 63% higher than five


years ago. The number has increased every year since a dip in 2013. The most active sectors were soft drinks on 65, ingredients on


62, dairy on 57, then packaging on 47. Wine on 37 was ahead of spirits on 29 and beer on 23. The top 15 sectors were the same as 2017, with the exception


of equipment replacing plant-based. The combination of plant- based with dairy-free, meat-free and vegan totalled 28. Bottled water and water coolers added up to 25. The biggest increases were for services (+25) and confectionery (+13) while most of the main categories saw declines, led by beer (-17) and dairy (-15).


Animo has introduced its OptiMe range during the Horecava trade


show in Amsterdam The OptiMe is fully customisable to match any taste in materials, colours and add-ons. It has a separate hot water tap to use for tea preparation, for


Barry Callebaut Beverages


redesigns a ‘classic’ Barry Callebaut Beverages UK has redesigned the packaging for its Classic range, providing a refreshing make over for the brand. Sales director for Barry Callebaut Beverages UK, Tracy Southwell commented: “It’s important to ensure we keep pace with the market and our customers’ needs. The new design is one of a series of changes to come from Barry Callebaut as we continue to evolve and grow our business. “We have a core, loyal base of vending customers and


rejuvenating the Classic range reflects our desire to develop with our existing customers and, hopefully, attract new ones, by providing a bold and colourful pack and adding a new logo that gives that Classic ‘stamp of approval’ to the quality of our ingredients. Illustrating that our products look good as well as taste good is an important message for us.” Barry Callebaut’s commitment to all parts of the manufacturing


and production process is highlighted in the company’s Forever Chocolate programme, which aims to make sustainable chocolate the norm by 2025.


With sustainability at the heart its business strategy Barry


Callebaut is driving change, supporting cocoa farming communities, reducing resource consumption in its factories and driving the uptake of sustainably sourced chocolate, while forging systematic change in the cocoa and chocolate value chain. It has set up and piloted self-sustaining cocoa farming communities and is working with industry, government and societal partners to scale up the impact and make maximum progress.


example, and allows the addition of fresh milk to create varieties of espresso-based drinks including cappuccino, latte and latte macchiato. Its compact design allows the OptiMe to fit wherever coffee is needed whether that is an office, hotel, school or restaurant. The OptiMe has been designed in the same style and specs as


the award-winning OptiBean. The Italian brewing system is said to make espresso the old-fashioned way, under just the right pressure.


Vending IoT solution MatiPay


wins CES 2019 Award MatiPay, the mobile payment and telemetry system designed for the vending industry has won a CES Innovation Award in Las Vegas for the second time. MatiPay converts vending machines into smart sales points supplying various typologies of goods and services in a multi- channel perspective. MatiPay has been installed on more than 40,000 vending machines and already involves more than 500,000 consumers, who can use their smartphone to take a coffee and transfer money. Thanks to a telemetry module, that can be installed in a few minutes, MatiPay offers exclusives features for operators in the vending industry. One of the features that most attracted the CES jury is the "virtual


wallet" which makes it possible to top-up the app wallet with both credit cards and cash, by using coin boxes and banknote readers with which vending machines are equipped. Credit can then be used


to take a coffee or a snack as well as to purchase digital goods and services such as travel tickets, telephone top-ups and coupons for online shops.


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