Since launching in 2021, Los Angeles-based tepache brand De La Calle has been working to bring a classic Mexican beverage to the U.S. market. Now repositioned as a “Modern Mexican Soda,” the brand is intent on bringing more Hispanic consumers into the fold.
Chris Hunter is well aware that his current health and wellness-oriented lifestyle and role as the CEO of plant-based protein drink maker Koia are not what anyone expected from him when he first set out to become an entrepreneur – himself included.
Koia has built its reputation in the cold box, but in order to achieve its next stage of growth the company is breaking onto the dry shelf with this month’s launch of Koia Nutrition Shakes, its first shelf-stable offering.
Today, Primo Water Corporation and an affiliate of BlueTriton Brands announced the two water giants have entered a definitive agreement to merge, creating a new combined entity called NewCo, effectively taking the largest manufacturer of bottled water in the U.S. public.
Since its founding in 2015, the CPG sales agency, specializing in retail execution for emerging brands, has grown to over 100 clients in 35 states, with 85 full time employees and plans to expand the team to over 100 by January 2025. The firm works with companies such as Olipop, Poppi and Guayaki, among others.
Non-alcoholic beverage sales accelerated during the two-week period ending June 1, with volume sales picking up as pricing eases, according to an analysis of NielsenIQ data by Goldman Sachs Equity Research.
CPG services provider Advantage Solutions Inc. and innovator platform L.A. Libations (LAL) are forming a joint venture, dubbed Relentless Advantage, to help LAL-affiliated brands to expand nationwide more readily outside of the company’s SoCal backyard.
Mocktail Club, maker of a line of non-alcoholic canned cocktails, announced today it has received an investment from spirits industry capital and brand building firm Pronghorn, aimed at helping the Washington, D.C.-based business expand across the country.
Bottled water manufacturer Icelandic Glacial announced today it has named Sadowsky to its board of directors. The man also known as the “Beverage Whisperer” is a senior advisor at investment firm Verlinvest and the executive director of beverage distribution group NIDA, but joins Icelandic’s board as an individual.
Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) is beefing up its DSD wing with the acquisition of Arizona-based Kalil Bottling Co., in a deal that gives the beverage strategic control of all production, sales and distribution assets and its first facility in the Grand Canyon State.
As online marketing and ecommerce have radically changed the playbook for brands, CPG strategy firm PLTFRM is aiming to provide a new “operating system” for modern startups, and now it’s expanding its retail and marketing services to new channels and new industries.
Beverage sales over Memorial Day weekend “broadly met or exceeded expectations” of beer distributors and convenience channel retailers, according to the latest Beverage Bytes survey by Goldman Sachs Equity research.
In January 2022, having bounced back from a period of major revenue declines and operating losses, leading U.S. kefir manufacturer Lifeway Foods announced a new phase for the decades-old brand dubbed “Lifeway 3.0” with a focus on growth and scaling.
Late last year, sparkling beverage maker Sound was facing an existential crisis. Social media had gone quiet and consumers seeking out its canned botanical and tea drinks online and in stores were met with months-long out of stocks.
