Year: 2007

Cadbury Expected to Announce Sale of US Bev Biz

Cadbury Schweppes PLC is expected to announce on Tuesday that it will sell its North American beverage business, which includes Snapple teas, Dr Pepper and 7-Up, The New York Times…

Goji Lania crosses the taste/functionality line

I recently tried a product called GojiLania, which I picked up at my local Whole Foods.   Goji (aka wolfberry) is, in the manufacturer’s words, something that has been “a secret…

Review: VitaZest Green Tea

Vitazest Vitamin Enriched Green Tea is a flavored and enhanced RTD green tea beverage with a hint of honey and lemon that is available in a 20 oz. PET plastic…

Review: Wet Mango Energy Drink

Manufacturing the all new WETMANGO Exotic Energy Drink. Its all the craze in the USA. Looking for established Distributors with solid client base.…

Review: The Switch

The Switch, which is made with 100% carbonated juice, is back with a revamped lineup that includes fresh new packaging and several new flavors. It’s 100% of what you want…

Jones Soda out at Starbucks

As reported by the Seattle P-I and Beverage Business Insights, Jones Soda’s relationship with Starbucks is ending at the end of June.  This means that Jones Soda will no longer…

Review: Yin Yang

Cha Dao unites two of the world’s most passionate beverages in this lightly sweetened blend of black tea and coffee. The coffee’s spirited acidity and toasty bitterness harmonize with tea’s…

2007 World Tea Expo Recap

by John Craven and Matt Kennedy, BevNET Editors View the Photo Gallery More than 300 exhibitors and 5,000 buyers gathered in Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center, June 9-11,…

Energy Slush Redux — SoBe Energy Coolatta

After my recent post about Full Throttle Slurpee, the folks at RF Binder (PR for Dunkin Donuts) contacted me about the new SoBe Energy Coolatta.    Unfortunately (note to PR folks),…

Pepsi releases cucumber flavored soda in Japan

The Associated Press (read the story in the Washington Post) is covering a story about a new CSD being launched in Japan called “Pepsi Ice Cucumber”.  It doesn’t actually contain…

Fuze Beverage Announces Packaging Award

@@img1Englewood Cliffs, NJ, February 1, 2007- FUZE Beverages, LLC., has received the 2007 Silver National Association of Container Distributors (N.A.C.D.) award for the 22oz. bottle of their energy drink brand,…

Icelandic Water Holdings Announces CarbonNeutral® Certification

Thorlakshofn, Iceland (June 2007) – Icelandic Water Holdings ehf. maker of Icelandic Glacial Natural Spring Water, today announced that it has received CarbonNeutral® Certification from leading climate change company, The…