Video (+ Photo Gallery): Expo West Product Recap
The new product season got off to a blazing start at Natural Products Expo West. Whether they were real introductions, re-introductions of products from earlier in the year, or soon-to-come…
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Are Eco-Bottles the Next Big Beverage Battle? AP Thinks So
March has already brought a great deal of activity in packaging innovation, from the incorporation of 100 percent recycled PET to the use of plant polymers in some bottles. Most…
BevNET Live Summer 11: Early Registration Deadline Approaching…
On June 6 & 7, BevNET Live returns to NYC for our Summer 2011 program. In what is shaping up to be our biggest event yet, BevNET Live will deliver…
Video: Trends at Expo West 2011
With more than 130 beverage companies buying booth space, and a few dozen more tramping the aisles, Natural Products Expo West provided a near-comprehensive look at the way entrepreneurial beverage…
Ingredients Flow Fruitfully at engredea
Best known as a trade show for all-natural consumer products, Natural Products Expo West (which ended last weekend) also dedicates a section of its floor-space to those business-to-business supplier companies…
Evolution Under Pressure at Expo West — And that’s a Good Thing
It’s been one of the hardest questions for high-end juice brands to answer: sure, your juice is the freshest. But how do you keep it that way? The answer, in…
PepsiCo Tosses Facebook Consumers Throwback Mountain Dew, Pepsi Cola
The beverage giant announced that it would be using real cane sugar and heritage 1970s designs in a pair of products that had previously enjoyed limited-edition releases. That means consumers…
ZICO Adds Kevin Garnett as Shareholder and Spokesman
Kevin Garnett is no longer a “Knight of G.” Instead, call him a Knight of Z. ZICO, that is. The ultra-intense power forward for the Boston Celtics has agreed to…
WSJ: PepsiCo Will Raise Prices on Tropicana Orange Juice
PepsiCo Inc. will raise prices on its Tropicana juice line by between four and eight percent after this season’s record cold temperatures severely impacted Florida’s orange crop, the Wall Street…
NIDA Director Ken Sadowsky, BYB Brands’ Norman George, Communications Expert Robbie Vorhaus join BevNET Live Team in New York
A pair of veteran beverage business investors and brand builders and one of the world’s foremost crisis communications experts have signed on to speak during the BevNET Live program in…
Silverwood Partners: Expect Investment to Pick Up in Natural Products, Beverages
“The market is back” for beverage company investment, according to a report from the Sherborn, MA-based investment bank, citing deals in beverage and other natural products that include recent investments…
Smartwater Launches Online Video, BevNET Laughs
Pssst! This new Jennifer Aniston online video campaign from glaceau’s YouTube channel is lots of fun, and almost relevant enough to get away with:…
WEBI Launches: New Group Promotes Opportunity for Women in Beverage Business
When it comes to moving women into decision-making and executive positions in the beverage industry, there’s been progress, but not enough. At least, not enough progress according to a new…
Video: Visit with Dream Water CEO David Lekach
On a recent trip to Miami, I had a chance to sit down with the David Lekach, CEO of Dream Water, a brand that is part of the rapidly changing…