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DETROIT — Authorities said they arrested 13 people and seized more than $500,000 in cash after breaking up a smuggling ring that collected millions of beverage containers in other states and cashed them in for 10 cents apiece in Michigan.

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According to an SEC filing on September 21, Bravo Brands has filed a voluntary petition in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida pursuant to Chapter 7 of Title 11 of the United States Code.   Robert C. Furr, Esq. has been appointed Trustee in this case.

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If you’re in the mood for some liquid indulgence, here are two great chocolate beverages that are worth a try.

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DaVido is a scary fellow. He’s a singer with a love song, some cameras, and a yen for Starbucks. Not the coffee, but a music contract. And his determination led to rejection for him, and almost cost me a pink slip, to boot.

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Word from British tech bloggers is that Coke is developing a bottling and vending machine technology for Sprite bottles — and eventually Coke, Diet Coke, etc. — that will freeze some of the liquid into cubes inside the bottle when the cap opens.

Initial attention is focused on the fact that the drinks won’t be diluted by water. Forget that! Attention should be focused on the fact that doing that would be really, really, really neat. Why give it to the Brits first, though? Isn’t the right to be really neat what we fought the American Revolution for?

Having founded and then sold SoBe to Pepsi as well as orchestrating the sale of Izze to Pepsi, John Bello certainly has a good reputation in the beverage industry (we’ll forget about Fire Fighter Brands for a minute).  On the other hand, he’s been run out of the soup / quick serve restaurant industry, having been ousted as CEO of “The Original SoupMan” (see below for official press release) just last week. 

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We watch a lot of baseball around here, and one of the things we’ve noticed lately is that when players get back to the dugout and pull what are definitely water bottles (i.e. like poland spring) out of the big round cooler, they seem to be filled with something that isn’t, well, water-colored, but is, in fact, orange.

Having heard that different athletic trainers have, on occasion (read: almost always) substituted other products for Gatorade in things like NBA locker rooms, we wondered what that orange liquid might be.
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While assembling our 2007 Bottled Water Buyer’s Guide, we received many new brands of bottled water products that are (or will be) available in the US market.  Of course, there were lots of standard spring waters as well as countless new functional and vitamin enhanced products.  However, what I found most interesting about this year’s batch were the packaging styles.

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