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Consumer attitudes around food have fundamentally changed, with many consumers now wanting more from food than they previously did. We want food to help improve our personal well-being, including mental, emotional and spiritual wellness. Additionally, we have developed a preference for food that gave us a sense of familiarity and comfort.

Unilever prides itself to be a company that has championed sustainable living for the 120 years that it has been in existence. “Our purpose is to make sustainable living commonplace. It’s why we come to work. It’s why we’re in business. It’s how we inspire exceptional performance,” the company says.

Spreading its good cheer across the globe, Wrigley landed in Africa in 1972, opening its first factory in Kenya, which is the multinational’s only manufacturing plant in the region. The company’s first products to be manufactured at its facility in the Industrial Area, Nairobi, were the famously known and widely enjoyed Orbit with Sugar and Big G chewing gums.

As big beer manufacturers were announcing that they were putting on hold any investments across many parts of Africa and the World, somewhere in Kenya, a new craft brewing company was being set up by two expatriates who had seen potential in Kenya’s nascent craft beer market.

India, the world’s largest milk producer, issued a draft of regulations for mandatory fortification of packaged milk through the FSSAI in January 2021 in a bid to address the pertinent issue of Vitamin A and D deficiency in the country which are responsible for night blindness and bone disorders such as rickets and osteoporosis, respectively.