Bill Sipper of Cascadia Managing Brands will be developing this rising brand unparalleled market positioning while Andy Stallone of SAS Sales and Marketing will focus on maturing their sales and distribution. Renée Whitworth of Flood Creative will be instrumental in the brand’s visual and verbal positioning in relation to branding, packaging and design.
In discussing the deal with BevNET, analysts and experts in the organic grocery space noted that while the deal was ostensibly about freeing Danone to secure the bigger prize of acquiring WhiteWave, it also affirms the long-term value of a strong organic brand.
Founded in 2014, Evy Tea’s ready-to-drink line is now available in roughly 500 stores throughout the Northeast, and Chen said she wants to dominate the region before expanding further. The company is currently in serious talks with several top beverage distributors.
KEEL Partners LLC, the nation’s first premium light spirit, owned by Rhode Island businessmen Bill Dessel and Tom McGowan and former New England Patriot, Matt Light, is pleased to announce the successful completion of multimillion dollar Series A Funding and the expansion of its management team.
Kohana has had a reinventive year so far, hiring a new sales team, announcing an ambitious innovation pipeline, and a breaking ground on an expanded production facility expansion that will allow the cold brew coffee makers to produce its ready-to-drink coffees in-house with enough extra canning and retort space to rent out capacity to an outside co-packer.
Three former employees have sued the company and its recently departed founder and CEO, Ben Weiss, for allegedly cheating them out of the fair market value of their ownership stakes in the company ahead of its $1.7 billion sale to Dr Pepper Snapple (DPS) last November.
The San Diego-based brand will unveil a four-SKU line of organic kombucha at Costco stores in three regions later this month, with a broader launch in natural and conventional grocery channels set to commence this fall.
This week’s episode of the Taste Radio podcast includes a feature conversation with Alex Galindez, a veteran marketing executive in the food, beverage and media industries who leads guayusa-based beverage company Runa.
After several months teasing that the brand would soon be available in retail outlets, Soylent today announced that it will be making its brick-and-mortar debut this month at 18 7-Eleven locations in Greater Los Angeles.
In an interview at the recently held 2017 Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City, Graham Fortgang, co-founder of MatchaBar, explained that the company’s cafes in Manhattan and Los Angeles act as a “huggable billboards” for the brand’s RTD drinks as well as incubators for innovative ideas.
At the 2017 Summer Fancy Food Show in June, BevNET spoke with five early-stage beverage brands, each of which market innovative concepts for packaged drinks and unique takes on emerging beverage categories.
A Cook County, Ill. judge moves to delay the implementation of the county's tax on sugary beverages, a class member objects to the terms of the GT's Kombucha-Whole Foods lawsuit settlement, and Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits faces allegations of fraud.
Currently produced in a 2,000 square-foot facility in Tucker, Georgia, outside Atlanta, Golda Kombucha’s 6,000-square-foot space at Lee + White will join other local food and beverage producers.
CIL US Wines & Spirits, the American subsidiary of independent and family-owned Camus Wines & Spirits, announced today it is expanding the Glencadam Single Malt Scotch Whisky presence in the United States with the addition of the limited edition Glencadam 13 Year Old.
