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BevNET & NOSH June Events: Virtually Live, Pitch Competitions, Boot Camp

Get ready for June. BevNET and NOSH are cooking up a virtual feast of brand-building content and suspense, including BevNET & NOSH Virtually Live, our signature New Beverage Showdown and NOSH Pitch Slam, and a Boot Camp for new brands that encompasses both Food and Beverage startups.

Office Hours: Fractionals Lead to the Greater Whole

The latest Office Hours deals with the strategic use of fractional executives, including ways to develop trust, keep communication top-of-mind, and thoughts on the transition of roles as companies grow into larger armies.

Speed Dating: Connecting CPG Brands with Investors on May 20

BevNET & NOSH will host our next Investor Speed Dating event next month on Thursday, May 20. Speed Dating is a virtual event series designed to facilitate direct, one-to-one connections between emerging food and beverage brands with a variety of industry gatekeepers and experts, including retailers, distributors, service providers and investors.

Taste Radio: Set The ‘Bar’ And Investors Will Find You. Just Ask Ryan Close.

Ryan Close, founder of on-demand cocktail machine Bartesian, which today completed a $20 million funding round and added actress Mila Kunis to its advisory board, spoke about the company’s breakout success, why overconfidence was helpful early on, how B2B sales were key to its initial funding strategy, communicating long-term value to customers and how Close assesses opportunities to scale.

Review: Wize Coffee Leaf Tea

Launched in 2020, Wize Coffee Leaf is a product that positions itself as a better for you tea that’s both low in sugar and lightly caffeinated. The RTD line is available in three flavors, including Lemon, Mango and Grapefruit.

New Product Gallery: March Madness As Expo Innovation Wave Hits

In one of largest and most comprehensive monthly galleries yet, we highlight some of the new releases from across the beverage world that you would likely have seen at this year's Expo West, featuring innovations in dairy, plant-based, energy, functional drinks and more.

Spirits Gallery: RTD Cocktails Spring Forward

In this gallery, we highlight some of the notable recent releases from the past month, highlighted by a slew of tequila-based cocktails and seltzers, an RTD debut from Savage and Cooke, and baseball-themed cans from Cutwater Spirits. 

Taste Radio: Mason Dixie’s Founder Is The American Dream. And She’s Changing Baking Forever

Mason Dixie Foods founder and CEO Ayeshah Abuelhiga spoke about how the combination of her family’s history in the food business along with the impact of bias and inequality in her career prompted her foray into entrepreneurship, how she prepared for and managed meteoric growth and why she’s calling out antiquated ways of doing business in the baking industry.

Review: Mocktail Club

Mocktail Club is a line of ready-to-drink-mocktails that are made with all natural clean ingredients. The company offers a variety of flavors that are modeled after popular cocktails, each packaged in 12 ounce glass bottles.

Taste Radio: Twist, Shake, Disrupt. How DRNXMYTH Is Redefining A Category.

Brandon Schwartz & Lawrence Cisneros, the co-founders of innovative ready-to-pour cocktail brand DRNXMYTH, spoke about how they navigated a complex web of regulation, supplier partnerships and packaging technology to achieve their vision for the products and how they surrounded themselves with investors that understood the impact of technology within an emerging category.

Review: Brew Dr. Uplift

Uplift, Brew Dr.’s first non-kombucha beverage, pairs yerba mate, guayusa, and green tea -- all ingredients with natural caffeine -- with added probiotics to create a better-for-you energy drink.

Category Close-Up: Product Showcase – Juice

On this edition of Product Showcase, you’ll hear about the latest product innovations and brand updates from Happy Moose, Karuna Beverages, Uncle Matt's Organic, Monfefo, Garden of Flavor, Suja Organic, Vive Organics and JUICERA.

Category Close-Up: Expert Analysis – Juice

In this episode of Category Close-Up, our panel of experts examined the present and future of the juice segment, framing current trends against historical precedents and consumer preferences.