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New York – In a similar vein to Michelle Feeney’s Floral Street range, A N Other has launched a collection of luxury fragrances that cost between £37 ($50, €42) and £60 ($80, €68). The brand chose to forego expensive marketing campaigns and celebrity endorsements to focus on delivering a high-quality product containing sustainable ingredients. The bottles feature minimal branding and each scent focuses on a specific fragrance note, including ‘floral’, ‘woody’ and ‘oriental’.

‘We looked at the cost structure and came up with a simple idea,’ co-founder Gilad Amozeg told Women’s Wear Daily. ‘[We decided to] take the bulk of the money and put it inside the bottle so that the customer gets better products, meaning we can use more expensive and exotic raw ingredients, and eco-friendly materials.’

Edinburgh – The Whisky Foundation has launched a new e-commerce retail concept in which it sells spirits at a variety of prices depending on demand. Bidding for the rare Springbank 24-year-old malt The Maltman, of which there are only 244 bottles worldwide, starts at £0.75 ($1, €0.85) after which the price fluctuates in relation to the amount of interest shown by customers. The brand estimates that each of the bottles featured would be worth about £410 ($550, €465) if sold in the traditional way.

While global demand for whisky remains healthy, innovations in the vodka sector and the continued popularity of gin mean that whisky brands need to work hard to retain their market share.

New York ­– Founded by Josh and Jeremy Lebewohl, 2nd Floor, which offers a kosher food and drinks menu, is located above the brothers’ Second Avenue Deli in the city’s Upper East Side.

The drinks menu features a range of traditional Jewish ingredients such as Manischewitz wine, which is produced under the supervision of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and replaces the crème de mûre in the bar’s take on a gin bramble cocktail. Another cocktail, Shofar, features flavours linked to Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year – including apple brandy, pomegranate and honey.

In a New Bricolage world, brands are increasingly using food as a form of diplomacy to give consumers an insight into different cultures and traditions.

As LS:N Global explored in our 2016 Food and Drink Futures Report, forward-thinking brands are developing products and services to enable consumers to access food and drink in more convenient ways, and using artificial intelligence to reduce food waste. Across the world, the online grocery sector is booming.