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Reporter’s notebook: CytoSport, VPX, Labrada trademarks

With CytoSport signing a distribution agreement with Pepsi Bottling Group for Muscle Milk and competitors VPX and Labrada expanding their distribution in mainstream channels, nutritional companies are becoming a force…

Huge Growth, Tiny Footprint

Energy shots are the fastest-growing part of the energy drink category and are stealing the momentum from their bigger – in package size – rivals, according to Consumer Edge Research…

Diageo Acquires Premium Cocktail Mixer Company Stirrings, LLC

NORWALK, Conn., June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Diageo (NYSE:DEO), the world’s leading spirits, beer and wine company is pleased to announce that it will increase its investment of Stirrings, LLC, makers…

IFT09, naturally sweet!

-Check out our photo gallery from IFT09 BevNET was on hand at this year’s IFT Show to sample the many cutting cutting-edge beverage concepts on display. IFT09, the Institute of…

Guayaki plans canned mate product

Guayaki, a pioneer of yerba mate tea, will add a new kind of package to its all-glass line-up: an aluminum can. According to Guayaki vice president of marketing Pierre Ferrari,…

Red Bull responds to German Cola concerns

Santa Monica, Calif., (May 26, 2009)–After analyzing a single can of Red Bull Simply Cola, the German Nordrhein-Westfalen Institute of Health and Work, raised concerns with German authorities regarding the…

Albertsons adjusts prices to fight supercenters

Albertsons supermarkets announced plans this week to lower prices on thousands of goods at its California stores. The move, according to the Los Angeles Times, is meant to counter consumers’…

PepsiCo Files Suit Against PBG and its Board

PURCHASE, N.Y., May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) announced today that it has filed suit in Delaware against the Pepsi Bottling Group (NYSE: PBG) and certain of its directors.…

VPX appeals Muscle Power ruling

VPX filed an appeal Friday of the injunction against its Muscle Power protein drink given to them this week by a federal judge. The judge ruled that Muscle Power’s name…

CytoSport injunction halts VPX’s Muscle Power

A federal judge has barred VPX Sports from making, selling or marketing its Muscle Power protein drink because its appearance is too similar to that of a competing product. In…