Adrianne DeLuca is the Assistant Managing Editor - Newsletters for BevNET and NOSH.
Despite its name, The Specialty Food Association’s Winter Fancy Food Show returned to the Las Vegas Convention Center with plenty of new product innovations in the beverage set, including novel formats in the bubble tea space, updating positioning for kombucha brands and growing prominence for outer space aesthetics.
Digital advertising has become a nightmare for hemp food and beverage brands, regardless of whether or not their products contain CBD.
Women-led, vitamin-infused, clean energy drink brand GORGIE launched today, just six months after founder Michelle Cordeiro Grant first came up with the concept, tested it via TikTok and began building an online community dedicated to wellness and energy, complete with magazine and a host of followers.
Albertsons Companies released its quarterly earnings on Tuesday, reporting net sales and other revenue reached $18.2 billion in Q3, a 1% increase from Q2 results, with growth largely driven by retail price inflation and higher fuel sales.
JPG Resources has acquired RodeoCPG’s Brooklyn-based R&D team allowing JPG to better serve brands in the Big Apple, while Rodeo pivots toward becoming a targeted, tech-forward sales management platform.
The pop-up grocery store concept will open its first permanent brick and mortar location at 205 Bleecker Street in New York City this winter.
Oatly is making moves toward its transition to an asset-light, supply chain strategy after inking a $72 million deal with Toronto-based co-packer Ya YA foods on Tuesday.
Non-alcoholic beverage sales slowed but remained positive, up 11.8% year-over-year, while volume declines picked up pace. Average pricing growth remained “robust and largely stable,” up 13.3% driven by double digit growth in key categories.
Washington State’s Supreme Court extended the block on Albertsons' $4 billion special dividend payment to shareholders late last week by granting the state attorney general’s (AG)’s request for emergency injunctive relief.
Energy drink brand Celsius reached a $7.8 million settlement agreement late last month with a consumer group that claimed the drink’s front-of-can “No Preservatives” callout was misleading due to the product's inclusion of citric acid.
Backed by $70 million in new growth capital, plant-based food and beverage company NotCo is aiming to build a business-to-business food technology platform “that operates like Coca Cola.”
Senate committee members attempted to extract Kroger and Albertsons’ “side of the story” during a hearing on the $24.6 billion merger. Here are some highlights from the two and a half hour testimony.
Alternative dairy brand MALK announced the close of a $9 million Series B round today to support the brand’s recent shift into national distribution.
The CEOs of Kroger and Albertsons Companies faced intense criticism from the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee during a hearing yesterday regarding their proposed merger.
