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  • Byron Bay Cookies Unveils New Protein-Plus Range: Healthier Indulgence on its 35th Anniversary

    Byron Bay Cookies Unveils New Protein-Plus Range: Healthier Indulgence on its 35th Anniversary

    Byron Bay Cookies is celebrating its 35th anniversary with the introduction of the Protein Plus Cookie range. These are 60g cookies, each individually packed, with protein content ranging from 16g to 18g and fibre content from 5g to 6g.

    Healthier Cookie Option

    The company claims that their new range of protein-rich cookies contains about 45% less sugar and 60% fewer carbohydrates compared to their original cookie lineup. This makes the new range a healthier choice for consumers who are conscious about their sugar and carbohydrate intake.

    Three Delicious Flavours

    The Protein Plus Cookie range comes in three delectable flavours: White Choc Macadamia, Milk Choc Chunk, and Triple Choc. These delicious options give customers variety and make it easier for them to incorporate these healthier cookies into their diet.

    Availability and Pricing

    The new range is set to be available on the company’s website from this month onward, with a recommended retail price of $6 per cookie.

    Bill Quayle, the owner and director of Byron Bay Cookies, believes that protein is not just a fleeting trend, but a lifestyle choice. He said, “We know our customers have been looking for something that delivers extra nutritional benefits, while still delivering on the taste and indulgence that we’re known for.”

    Questions & Answers

    What is the protein and fibre content of the new Protein Plus Cookie range from Byron Bay Cookies?
    Each 60g cookie from the new range contains between 16g to 18g of protein and 5g to 6g of fibre.

    What flavours does the Protein Plus Cookie range come in?
    The range comes in three flavours: White Choc Macadamia, Milk Choc Chunk, and Triple Choc.

    Where can customers purchase the new Protein Plus Cookie range and how much does it cost?
    The cookies are available on the company’s website from this month, with a recommended retail price of $6 per cookie.

  • Cooee Cookies Unveils Allergy-Free Indigenous-Inspired Snacks, Boosting Gut Health with Native Australian Ingredients

    Cooee Cookies Unveils Allergy-Free Indigenous-Inspired Snacks, Boosting Gut Health with Native Australian Ingredients

    Cooee Cookies, an indigenous-led snack brand, has recently joined forces with Australian biotechnology firm Health Food Symmetry (HFS) to develop a new range of cookies that promote gut health.

    This collaboration utilises PhytoBiome, a prebiotic product developed by HFS, to create an allergen-free cookie line. The partnership is striving to make the product accessible in rural Indigenous communities.

    Creation of Health-Driven Snacks

    Gordon Edwards, HFS founder and CEO, shared that the cookies are manufactured in Australia using regionally sourced, premium-grade produce and are backed by leading-edge research. Edwards expressed that both firms are thrilled by their joint initiative, which allows them to showcase their scientific functional food capabilities at national and international levels.

    Edwards also explained that each cookie, thanks to PhytoBiome, now contains clinically proven benefits for gut health, immune strength, and metabolic balance. This has transformed an otherwise simple snack into a functional food with genuine health benefits.

    Utilization of Native Ingredients

    The gut-friendly cookie range is made using native ingredients like Kakadu plum, wattle seed, lemon myrtle, and finger lime. These ingredients, known for their high antioxidant content and therapeutic potential, aid in bolstering immunity and maintaining a balanced digestive system.

    Terri-Ann Daniel, founder and CEO of Cooee Cookies, said that their partnership with HFS allows them to continue to enhance their allergy-free snacks. The collaboration enables them to offer improved gut and metabolic health benefits without compromising on taste or cultural significance.

    Questions & Answers

    What is the main goal of the partnership between Cooee Cookies and Health Food Symmetry (HFS)?
    The primary objective of their partnership is to develop an allergen-free cookie line that promotes gut health, immune strength, and metabolic balance.

    What native ingredients does the gut-friendly cookie range contain?
    The range includes native ingredients such as Kakadu plum, wattle seed, lemon myrtle, and finger lime, recognised for their high antioxidant content and therapeutic potential.

    What are the benefits of consuming these gut-healthy cookies?
    Apart from being allergen-free, these cookies offer numerous health benefits including enhanced gut health, bolstered immune system, and balanced metabolism.

  • Shein Slapped With $176m Fine Over Data Violations, Vows To Appeal

    Shein Slapped With $176m Fine Over Data Violations, Vows To Appeal

    Internet-based, fast-fashion purveyor Shein has come under fire from France’s data protection authority, resulting in a fine of 150 million euros ($175.61 million USD) for the company’s misuse of cookies. This decision has been contested by Shein, who plans to appeal.

    Violation of Data Protection Laws

    The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), a government entity responsible for ensuring consumer data protection, condemned Shein’s website for its failure to abide by regulations. The issue at hand was the collection of consumer data without their explicit consent.

    During a test conducted in August 2023, the CNIL found that even as users of Shein’s French site opted out of cookies – small files utilized by websites and advertisers to identify individual users and track their online activity – the cookies were still present on the user’s computer.

    According to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, cookies are categorized as personal data due to their ability to identify customers and target them with advertisements. Websites are obligated to secure consent to use these cookies.

    Significant Fine Reflects Multiple Breaches

    The CNIL stressed that the hefty fine was a reflection of Shein’s multiple violations. The company was found to be depositing cookies without user permission, ignoring user choices, and failing to provide adequate information.

    Contributing to the size of the penalty was also Shein’s significant reach, with the CNIL pointing out that 12 million French residents visit the site monthly.

    Shein to Contest Decision

    Shein has pushed back against the CNIL’s actions, voicing their intention to file an appeal. The company described the fine as “wholly disproportionate” considering the nature of the purported issues, their current compliance, and the proactive steps they’ve taken towards correction.

    The company stressed that they’ve been fully cooperative with the CNIL since August 2023, and have bolstered all facets of their data protection procedures.

    Founded in China and headquartered in Singapore, Shein suggested that the fine was political in nature, rather than the result of a fair and balanced enforcement.

    Shein, known for its affordable fashion items, has faced backlash in France, where legislators have supported a proposed law to regulate fast-fashion. If this law is enforced, Shein’s advertising would be prohibited.

    The 150-million-euro fine represents approximately 2% of the 7.684 billion euros revenue reported by Shein’s Ireland-registered entity in Europe in 2023, the most recent year for which data is available.

    Questions & Answers

    What was Shein fined for?
    Shein was fined for improperly using cookies on its website, which resulted in the unlawful collection of consumer data.

    Why does the size of the fine matter?
    The size of the fine reflects the severity of Shein’s violations, taking into account multiple instances of non-compliance, including placing cookies without consent, not honoring user choices, and failing to adequately inform users.

    What implications does this have for Shein’s operations in France?
    This incident, coupled with local lawmakers’ consideration of a law to regulate fast fashion, could potentially impact Shein’s ability to advertise and operate in France.

  • KitKat collaborates with Byron Bay Cookies

    KitKat collaborates with Byron Bay Cookies

    KitKat has teamed up with Byron Bay cookies to create every dessert lover’s dream. Chocolate and cookies are two of the best sweet snacks in existence. We don’t make the rules.

    And clearly, KitKat is onto the same thing as us because they’ve launched two new flavors inspired by everyone’s favorite café treat, the Byron Bay cookie. It’s every cookie and chocolate lover’s dream.

    Dubbed the “sweet treat collab of the summer”, there are two flavors to choose from – KitKat inspired by Byron Bay Cookies – Milk Choc Chunk and KitKat inspired by Byron Bay Cookies – Triple Choc.

    For cookie lovers, the Milk Choc Chunk will be right up your street. With crisp wafer fingers covered in white chocolate, topped with cookie pieces on a milk chocolate base. For those wanting an extra hit of chocolate, the Triple Choc option has you sorted with milk chocolate-covered chocolate wafer fingers topped with crunchy cookie pieces.

    Upon announcing the launch, Nestlé’s head of marketing – confectionery, Joyce Tan said: “We’re so excited to introduce KitKat brand’s first Australian collaboration to the market, and thrilled that it’s with the iconic and beloved local cookie maker Byron Bay Cookies.

    “We know Aussies will love these tasty additions to the KitKat range, and each bite is sure to transport them to their own beachside Byron Bay break!”

    Meanwhile, Byron Bay Cookie company director, Bill Quayle said: “We are thrilled to be partnering with a global brand like KitKat to create such a delicious collaboration.”

    Both creations are available in a 170g block, selling for $5.00. The Milk Choc Chunk option is also available in a 45g bar ($2.00), and the Triple Choc in a 65g bar ($2.50).

    You can find the new creations in supermarkets and convenience retailers nationally, as well as online, in-store, and within a hamper from KitKat Chocolatory.

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  • Mondelez falls short in China with Zero-sugar Oreos pitch

    Mondelez falls short in China with Zero-sugar Oreos pitch

    Initial reaction from the launch of Oreo Zero sugar-free cookies in China has been disappointing, Mondelez International Inc’s CEO said, underscoring some of the challenges facing the global snack giant as it makes a big push in the market.

    Mondelez launched Oreo Zero in China in August, taking a cue from social media trends showing reduced-sugar and sugar-free diets as a key trend, and the limited availability of zero-sugar biscuits in the country.

    “The reaction of the consumer has been a little bit disappointing … for one reason or the other, the consumers feel it is not the real thing,” Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dirk Van de Put told Reuters.

    “This indicates the dilemma,” he said. “We can offer the products to the consumer, but it’s not given that the consumer will buy and eat them.”

    Mondelez, which also makes Ritz crackers, belVita biscuits, Cadbury chocolates and Trident gum, has set a target to grow Oreo sales by $1 billion by the end of 2023. The brand surpassed $3 billion in global sales in 2019.

    Oreo Zero cookies contain maltitol instead of traditional sugars like sucrose and glucose, and the tweak gives a very slight difference in taste that only heavy consumers of regular Oreos would be able to identify, according to the company.

    The lukewarm consumer response underscores a challenge for global snack firms with a well-known brand and product. Mondelez varies the amount of sugar it includes in Oreos in different markets around the world. In China, Oreos have less sugar than do Oreos in the United States, which could make for an easier transition to no-sugar cookies.

    Chinese consumers, however, remain cautious about packaged foods’ no-sugar claims, said Michael Norris, research and strategy manager at Shanghai-based consultancy AgencyChina.

    For example, sugar-free drinks commanded only 1.25% of China’s soft drinks market in 2019, according to a June Dongxing Securities report, though Genki Forest’s sugar-free fizzy drinks and Suntory’s Oolong tea are gaining popularity.

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  • Her in Causeway Bay mixed fashion and food

    Her in Causeway Bay mixed fashion and food

    Hong Kong stylist Hilary Tsui has opened a cafe connected to her fashion boutique designed to “transport guests to a new planet”.

    The store – Her in Causeway Bay – serves coffee, cookies and ice-blended coffees to browsing customers, marrying Tsui’s passion for fashion and gastronomy. It was designed by studio Clap, based in Valencia, Spain.

    According to design news site Dezeen, the retail space features stacked terracotta display plinths and celestial aluminium partitions help create “an other-worldly atmosphere”.

    “Tsui’s desire was to create a retail space dedicated to contemporary women that brings together her two passions in one place: fashion and gastronomy,” explained the studio’s design team.

    “So we imagined Her as a sinuous landscape, with impressive mountains and pure materials – all together as a new space that’s yet to be discovered, like planet Mars.”

    Clothing items are hung from wavy racks that are suspended from the ceiling. Jewellery is presented on pale circular tables supported by thin metal stems, intended to resemble “small white lotus leaves that grow from the mountains”.

    Terracotta tiles are stacked to form a series of blocky plinths that the studio likens to “reddish mountains”, where accessories can be displayed or visitors can sit and rest.

    See more images and further commentary about Her in Causeway Bay here on Dezeen.

  • Vive Cake Boutique Hops Into Easter With ‘Cutielicious’ Easter Bunny & Adorable Chicks

    Vive Cake Boutique Hops Into Easter With ‘Cutielicious’ Easter Bunny & Adorable Chicks

    Celebrity-loved Vive Cake Boutique is hopping into Easter with cutielicious Easter Bunnies and adorable Easter Chicks from 1-30 April at its Central flagship café-store in H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central and latest pop-up store in Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui.

    Founder Vivien Lau’s new Insta-worthy dessert sensations are headlined by the most enchanting Easter Bunnie cake in town – ‘Bunny Luvs You’ – a showstopper which is an Easter dessert and table decoration all in one.

    Priced HK$680 for 1lb, this darling creation for the festive holiday is available in an assortment of flavours to suit all tastes: Pistachio Cake with Pistachio Buttercream, Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Fillings, Earl Grey Cake with Earl Grey Cream, Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Cream and Crunchies, Lemon Cake with Lemon Buttercream filled with Yuzu Curd, Green Tea Cake with Green Tea Buttercream, Banana Cake with Chocolate Buttercream, and Hazelnut Cake with Hazelnut Buttercream.

    Two of the sweetest little treats imaginable are also on the endearing Easter menu. Baby Chick Macacreams (HK$68, available only at Central cafe-store) is confectionary queen Vivien Lau’s charming festive adaptation of her beloved melt-in-your-mouth macarons – styled after chicks hatching from Easter eggs and flavoured with yuzu ice-cream.

    Available at both stores, ‘Easter Meringues’ (HK$55) are the sweetest of treats styled in carrot and chick shapes especially for Easter Bunnies – adapted from a new line of meringues launched with the recent opening of Vive Cake Boutique’s Harbour City pop-up.

    Vive Cake Boutique has proved a roaring success story since being launched with online orders in 2014 by founder and creative director Vivien Lau, who discovered her passion and talent by chance, making her first cake for a friend’s birthday.

    Her signature ‘handmade with love’, cupcakes, macarons, cookies, confectioneries and tailor-made cakes for weddings and special occasions, are all made from scratch with less sugar and finest ingredients sourced from all over the world.

    VIVE’s widespread acclaim includes Time Out’s listing among the “crème de la crème of Hong Kong’s bespoke dessert makers” – with a massive celebrity and socialite following including Aaron Kwok, Charlene Choi, Gillian Chung, Niki Chow, Sharon Chan, Miki Yeung, Ella Koon, Myolie Wu and more.

  • Nestle India plans up to 3-dozen product launches in 2019, eyes higher exports

    Nestle India plans up to 3-dozen product launches in 2019, eyes higher exports

    FMCG major Nestle India has lined up nearly two-three dozen products that it plans to launch in calender year 2019 across categories in the country to drive its aggressive growth plans, Chairman and Managing Director Suresh Narayanan said.

    According to a report, the company, whose 6 percent revenues come from exports, is now looking to tap more overseas markets by targeting countries with higher Indian diaspora such as SAARC and South East Asia.

    “In 2018, our core brands have performed well…We look forward for greater acceleration as we go forward….We have two-three dozen projects (products) in pipeline for launch in 2019. These products are across categories,” Narayanan said.

    Reiterating the company’s focus on the Indian market, he said, “As an organisation the one clarion call that we are working to is that we are in the business of growth to thrive and not to survive…It is not a survival mode that we look at the opportunity in India or the opportunity for growth..but a thriving mode.”

    While the domestic market has been driving its growth, Narayanan said Nestle India would now look at expanding its export basket.

    The company is looking at tapping overseas market with higher Indian diaspora such as SAARC and South East Asia to expand its exports, he added.

    Commenting on fake news on nutrition, Narayanan said it was affecting choices and lives of people.

    Therefore, Nestle India in partnership with Google, using a chatbot mechanism, will launch a personalised information dissemination website called ‘Ask Nestle’, he added.

    “Ask Nestle seeks to be a reliable and anchor platform for nutrition and lifestyle information for customers. India is the only market where this website is being launched,” he was further said.

    When asked if the company will in future also link Ask Nestle with its own e-commerce website for selling its products, he said it is a possibility.

    “…Going forward it could morph into something bigger in terms of linking up with our own e-commerce intentions, if at all it happens. But today it is only for information sharing, dissemination and helping,” he said.

    When asked if there has been any impact on sales of Maggi noodles after Supreme Court revived government’s case in the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) against Nestle India seeking damages of Rs 640 crore for alleged unfair trade practices, false labelling and misleading advertisements, Narayanan said “No”.

    When asked if the company is looking for manufacturing capacity expansion, he said: “…This is a question that is coming up with active consultation. That exercise is on but I can not share more at this stage”.

    Typically, our approach is to augment (capacity) at our existing factories, but it does not rule out a new manufacturing facility, Narayanan said.

    Nestle India, at present, has eight factories across the country.

    The company also did not rule out evaluating inorganic growth in the country and said it may consider it if any opportunity arises.

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