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Welcome to part three of our video replay of BevNET Live’s special “Building Sweet Leaf Up and Out” case study.
In this installment, William Pearson, the CFO of Nestle Waters North America, gives his view of the role that the acquisition of Sweet Leaf could play in the ongoing development of NWNA. While Sweet Leaf had already begun to work with private equity group Catterton Partners in an attempt to become a national brand, Pearson said, the larger company was not yet ready to pick up the entrepreneurial brand from Texas.…

Michael Kirban, the CEO of Vita Coco and BevNET’s Person of the Year, thought big in 2011, ramping up the company’s marketing approach to a national program while transitioning distribution in several major markets from independents to the Dr Pepper Snapple system. That development of a long range outlook was on display during BevNET Live, where Kirban followed the acceptance of his award with an interview with BevNET founder John Craven.

Welcome to part two of our video replay of BevNET Live’s special “Building Sweet Leaf Up and Out” case study.
While the first video featured Sweet Leaf founder Clayton Christopher talking about bootstrapping an entrepreneurial company, the second in this series takes an external look at what Christopher and partner David Smith had constructed: a growing company that was beginning to attract attention from the venture capital community.…

Building a company, balancing the way investment can help it grow, and finally selling it off – it’s a process every entrepreneur needs to consider, and one that was addressed directly during BevNET Live by Clayton Christopher, the founder of Sweet Leaf Tea, Michael Farello, a partner at Catterton Partners, and William Pearson, the CFO of Nestle Waters North America.
The three executives presented a case study on Sweet Leaf’s process to an eager audience, imparting lessons for startups and veteran companies alike. They split up the heavy lifting three ways, followed by discussion. Today we’re going to take a…

Here are the final three presentations from New Beverage Showdown 2: Runa, 82Go, and the winner of the competition, Coco Café.…

After an energetic and dramatic debut at BevNET Live Summer 2011, BevNET reprised the “New Beverage Showdown” at our recent winter conference in Santa Monica. The beverage brand competition – developed in partnership with Coke’s Venturing and Emerging Brands Unit – offers the founders of six new companies the opportunity to showcase their business plan and products in front of a panel of expert judges. Here are the first three presentations, from Joia, HDX, and Jetway; you’ll be able to view the remaining three tomorrow.

It’s one of the most successful independent beverage brands in the world, as well as a darling of Wall Street, but Monster Energy’s chief achievement seems to be its near-limitless ability to apply old school beverage experience to entice a cohort of edgy product adopters.…