Disaronno Riserva, Brand’s First New Product in 500 Years, Launches This Fall
A combination of Disaronno and blended Scotch whisky, Disaronno Riserva is aged in vintage Marsala wine barrels at the company’s own Cantine Florio in Marsala, Sicily.
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New on FBU: How to Efficiently Optimize Your Retail Strategy
To better understand methods for getting a retailer to optimally sell your product, including strategies in both category and shelf management, working with brokers and how to navigate sales data, FBU recently sat down with Daniel Lohman, who is a strategic advisor specializing in the organic and consumer packaged goods industry.
Tu Me Water Now Available at Gelson’s
Tu Me Water is powered with turmeric, vitamins, antioxidants, and electrolytes and has only 5 calories per serving.
Coco Libre Hydrates Vans US Open of Surfing
Coco Libre recently won the Eco-Excellence Award for Nutritional Beverage as given by finalist for NCW (Natural Child World), and is the best selling organic coconut water on the market.
Diageo’s Orphan Barrel Whiskey Distilling Company Releases Rhetoric 21-Year-Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
An experiment in maturation, Rhetoric is re-released annually to explore the flavor characteristics imparted by each additional year the bourbon spends in wood, allowing for side-by-side comparisons.
Ingredient Trends: 5 for Function
All of these natural functional products are available in beverages right now: and they’re growing and on-trend.
B.G. Reynolds Introduces Tropical Cocktail Mixers Line
The new cocktail mixers are available in a 750-ml bottle online and in specialty stores in the Pacific Northwest.
Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine Announces Phase Two Of All-New 360 Marketing Campaign
Following Phase 1 of its "Manifesto Video," which has received over 1 million views on YouTube since June 29, the brand is now ready to introduce its new spokesperson, Gatlin T. Wolf III.
FIJI Adds 700 mL Bottle to its Line-up
The new 700 mL bottle is available now for $2.29 in stores nationwide.
Distribution Roundup: UNFI Pushes Titan Tea and Tio Gazpacho Through Speed to Market Program
Titan Tea’s electrolyte-infused teas will soon be made available at 300 of UNFI’s top independent stores nationwide.
Diversity in Natural Foods: The Way Forward
Readers of my last two columns get the point quickly: food and beverage companies in the natural products industry should strive for racial and ethnic diversity. To that end, now we’re going to think about solutions: practices that the industry and its component companies can inaugurate to spur both employee and entrepreneurial diversity.
Irish Fire Wins Triple Gold Medal and Best of Show at Microliquor Spirit Awards
The Microliquor Awards is the Worlds first Spirit Competition for Emerging Brands.
Copper & Kings to Host “A History of American Brandy” Seminar
Louisville-based Copper & Kings American Brandy Co. is hosting an educational seminar on the history of brandy distillation and consumption in America Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 4 p.m.
With Launch of Sam Lives, Fresh Samantha is (Sort Of) Back, Again
She is the namesake of pioneering super premium juice brand Fresh Samantha, and while Samantha Levin was just two years old when her father launched the beverage line, she’s following in the footsteps of her family’s business -- for the second time -- with an HPP smoothie/meal replacement brand called “Sam Lives.”