More big news for Body Armor with news that the company has aligned itself with Big Geyser, one of the largest beverage distributors in metro New York. Big Geyser will act as the exclusive distributor of Body Armor throughout New York City, as well as Westchester, Long Island, Nassau and Suffolk Counties. The distribution deal is Body Armor's first on the East Coast.
After 18 months at the Coca-Cola Co., Inc., he vowed he’d never come back to the beverage game. The big sale -- $4.1 billion for Vitaminwater maker Glaceau -- was over, the transition team was largely in place, and he had other goals in mind. "I don't think any human being could put in the energy and intensity that I put into those years," Repole said of the early 2000s. "I don't think it could ever be duplicated."
On the heels of PepsiCo’s announcement that Diet Mountain Dew, Brisk and Starbucks RTD Beverages have each surpassed $1 billion in sales over the past year, Salman Amin, the executive VP and CMO of PepsiCo, penned an article for Forbes about the company’s core strategies in developing and marketing a billion-dollar brand.
How long do entrepreneurs wait to raise money, how does an investor ultimately decide if a valuation is reasonable, and what helps to eliminate stresses on a potential partnership. Those were just a few of the topics that the presenters from Building Sweet Leaf Up and Out tackled as they took questions from the moderator and crowd during December's BevNET Live in Santa Monica.
Aloe Gloe might have been the first aloe drink with a mainstream focus, but it appears that Brain-Twist founder Larry Trachtenbroit is aiming to have the prettiest. Trachtenbroit, along with supermodel Petra Nemcova, recently appeared at an industry conference to introduce his latest product, Halo.
It might have seen Pepsi-Cola get leapfrogged by Diet Coke for the number two carbonated beverage slot, but PepsiCo did anoint three core holdings as brands that have sold more than $1 billion in the past year, announcing that Diet Mountain Dew, Brisk and Starbucks RTD Beverages had crossed that threshold.
Boylan Bottling has enlisted Castle Co-Packers to boost its production and supply lines as the premium soda maker looks to meet rising demand for its products on the East Coast, according to an article in Drinks Business Review. Castle, a Pennsylvania-based independent bottler, will provide production, warehousing, and logistical support for Boylan, which produces a line of premium birch beers and sodas in glass bottles.
There’s breaking news today concerning the fates of three beverage companies whose financial travails have been touched on frequently on BevNET and in the media at large. RelaxZen, Adina, and New Leaf are all fairly new, entrepreneurial beverage companies run by executives of varying degrees of industry experience.
Led by rising sales of almond milk, the market for dairy alternative beverages reached $1.33 billion in 2011, according to a new report from Packaged Facts. The report states that as consumers seek out healthier substitutes for dairy drinks, many are increasingly turning toward consumption of soy milk, almond milk, and rice milk.
Kraft Foods will eliminate 1,600 positions in North America and relocate its beverages and snacks unit from Chicago, as the food and drink conglomerate prepares to split into two companies, the company announced Tuesday. The company hopes the changes will place it in a stronger position to execute its global sales strategies.
The Winter 2012 Fancy Food show in San Francisco wrapped up this past Tuesday afternoon; while the overall number of beverage companies was light for the third year in a row (approximately 40), the stalwarts seeking specialty channel retailers and distributors were present – sparkling juices and juice, gourmet sparkling and still waters, coconut waters, coffee and teas, and gourmet CSDs. As in previous years, exhibitors said they were pleased by the density of the foot traffic and “meetings” with large influential retailers and wholesalers walking the aisles.
They’ve crunched the Consumer Price Index numbers over at investment bank Morgan Stanley, and the takeaway is this: beverages got more expensive last year, and as the year went on,…
It hasn’t reached the same level of tumultuous rage directed at the recently proposed “Stop Online Piracy Act,” but fans of Dublin Dr Pepper are downright angry that their beloved brand is now gone, and some are taking to the streets to voice their dismay. A number of devoted enthusiasts and former retailers of Dublin Dr Pepper have begun a boycott of Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS) products to protest a recent legal settlement that will end a trademark infringement lawsuit between the two companies.
With the addition of former Vitaminwater president Mike Repole to the board of year-old multifunction beverage Body Armor, the second of three key executives on the team that grew and sold Glaceau to the Coca-Cola Co., Inc. is now back in the beverage business. Repole, has spent the past four years -- and his share of the $4.1 billion Coke paid for Glaceau -- breeding horses and growing both the Pirate's Booty snack brand and Energy Kitchen restaurants.
