2025 Trend Forecast: Is CPG Entering the Ozempic Era?
The packaged food and beverage industry continues to contemplate shifts in consumer eating patterns driven by expanded usage of appetite-suppressing GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy.
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2025 Trend Forecast: Is Grocery Inflation Here to Stay?
Though inflation has decelerated in recent months, it’s doubtful that still-elevated grocery prices will come down in the near future, despite the campaign promises of various politicians
2025 Trend Forecast: Is Retail Consolidation Reeling?
In the year ahead everyone from regional and independents to leaders like Walmart, Costco and Amazon will be working to remain competitive in the market known for its razor-thin margins – whether on their own or through M&A.
2025 Trend Forecast: Will Trump’s Tariffs Tamp Down Growth?
Pundits are still debating whether or not the proposed levies are a carrot to negotiate new trade deals, as happened during Trump’s first term, or a real stick to be used in aggressive defense of domestic producers. That lingering uncertainty is permeating CPG.
Anheuser-Busch, 1st Phorm to Partner for Energy Drink Line
Anheuser-Busch is still gunning for a share of the energy drink segment, announcing today a new partnership with sports nutrition business 1st Phorm to launch a RTD energy line.
Distribution: Guayakí Completes Transition to Third-Party Model
Guayakí Yerba Mate is once again embracing DSD distribution, announcing this week that it has completed a transition from self-distribution to “a predominantly third-party distribution model” that includes national coverage through Anheuser-Busch InBev houses.
FDA Moves To Ban Red Dye 3
The Food and Drug Administration announced it has banned the use of the potentially cancer-causing Red Dye 3 in food and beverage using a 1958 provision of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
Second Report on Alcohol Consumption and Health Draws Industry Trade Groups’ Ire
All major beverage-alcohol industry trade groups have united in opposition of a draft study about alcohol consumption’s effect on health, which was released Tuesday.
Top of ‘Mind’: Notes From D.C.’s Mindful Drinking Fest
The Mindful Drinking Fest returned to Washington, D.C. this past weekend, bringing together over 1,200 attendees and nearly 220 adult non-alcoholic products in a Dry January celebration that has grown 10 times since its first iteration.
Mark Anthony Brands President Dishes on Simplified 2025 Portfolio, Spirits-Based RTD Learnings
Mark Anthony Brands is narrowing its focus in 2025, with a "dramatically" simplified portfolio, Mark Anthony Brands president David Barnett shared Monday during Day 2 of Beer Business Daily’s Beer, Wine and Spirits Summit in Palm Beach, Florida.
Via Carota Lands Investment To Scale Brand
Via Carota Craft Cocktails is on its way to closing a $17.5 million investment round with the goal of becoming a "category-defining" premium RTD mixed drink.
KDP Announces Fresh Slate of Executive Leadership Appointments
Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) is kicking off 2025 with a slate of new executive leadership appointments, including new names leading the U.S. Refreshment Beverages division and marketing.
Brown-Forman to Lay Off 12% of Workforce, Close Louisville Cooperage
Brown-Forman, the leading exporter of U.S. spirits to the world, announced today plans to cut 12% of its global workforce of 5,400 employees, seeking to position the company for future…
Taste Radio: The Human Connection Is A Lost Art. But Monte’s Has Mastered It.
One of PJ Monte’s early sales pitches startled a woman so much that she clutched her purse. A few weeks later, PJ’s tomato sauce was on the shelves of her husband’s influential grocery store. It’s one of dozens of stories that PJ, a streetwise, fedora-wearing entrepreneur, has about the development of his acclaimed sauce and pasta brand Monte’s Fine Foods.