Harmless Harvest Adds CEO, COO
Fair trade-focused coconut water brand Harmless Harvest today announced that it is adding a pair of experienced big-company executives to help run the business.
Jeffrey Klineman
Editor-in-Chief
As Editor-in-Chief of BevNET, Jeff Klineman oversees the organization's reporting across all of its web sites, as well as BevNET Magazine. Jeff also plans, curates, and hosts the BevNET Live and NOSH Live conferences. Jeff previously worked as a newspaper reporter for the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, the Boston TAB and the Metrowest Daily News, and has freelanced for publications like Slate, Boston Magazine, Self, George, Commonwealth, and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. He is a graduate of Yale University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. A frequently-cited expert on the beverage industry, Jeff has also twice been named in Forbes as one of the 25 Most Influential when it comes to Consumer and Retail Companies.
Posts by Jeffrey Klineman
Lemonade: The Simple Beverage with the Complex Picture
We don’t like to become the story, unless it actually furthers the story. So here’s the story: last month, we ran a set of IRI numbers on lemonade, and, well, we ticked off the folks at Calypso.
New on Project NOSH: Former Stirrings CEO Paul Nardone Takes the Reins at PopCorners
A lifetime food and beverage executive who has come in to navigate the late-stage expansion and sale of high-profile brands like Stirrings (sold to Seagram’s) and Immaculate Baking Co. (sold to General Mills), as well as a former CEO of Annie’s, Paul Nardone has joined fast-growing snack brand PopCorners as its CEO.
BevNET Exclusive: Suja CEO Jeff Church Talks Coke Investment
“Since we started, we’ve shipped over 40 million bottles of Suja,” Church said. “With Coke and the right construct of an arrangement, we could go from 40 million to a billion. It just gets us super-excited about the pathway to building a much bigger business.”
New Bolthouse President LaPorta: 1915 HPP Juice Line to Double SKU Count
The manufacturing, shipping, and distribution capabilities for Campbell's new Fresh division will depend on Bolthouse’s strong cold-chain capabilities, but the brand also plans to keep innovating.
Coca-Cola Investing $90 Million in Suja; Valuation Reported at $300 Million
BevNET has learned that the Coca-Cola Company will invest $90 million in Suja as part of a deal that will give the soft drink giant a path to owning the juice maker in three years.
Ingredient Trends: 5 for Function
All of these natural functional products are available in beverages right now: and they’re growing and on-trend.
Diversity in Natural Foods: The Way Forward
Readers of my last two columns get the point quickly: food and beverage companies in the natural products industry should strive for racial and ethnic diversity. To that end, now we’re going to think about solutions: practices that the industry and its component companies can inaugurate to spur both employee and entrepreneurial diversity.
Charcoal on Call: Dirty Lemon Launches on Instagram
The high-pressure processed detoxification product is made with water, activated charcoal -- an ingredient that’s currently on the rise in food and beverage applications -- along with lemon juice and dandelion and ginger root extracts.
It’s ‘All Aboard’ the Coke Trucks for Aloe Gloe in L.A.
Coke's L.A. market unit is giving a brand started by three former Coke employees a try.
Bulletproof Launches FATwater, Raises $9M
Bulletproof is currently a lifestyle platform with roots in media and home-preparation coffees and supplements, but with the investment it is branching into a brick-and-mortar cafe and store, as well as the RTD product.
Washington Post: Seltzer is “Cooler than Coke”
Singled out as symbols of the category’s development are fast-growing LaCroix Sparkling Water, a product of National Beverage Corp. and Sparkling Ice, owned by Talking Rain.
Polar to Co-Pack Cans for Nestle Waters in Strategic Alliance
Cans have become a more important part of the overall packaged water strategy for many brands in the past year, particularly with regard to sparkling beverage types.
Report: Monster to Launch Mid-Cal, Raise Prices
Plans are to introduce a pair of 100-calorie products called M100 in orange and citrus flavors, according to Wells Fargo's Bonnie Herzog.