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AquaBall Now Available at Lowe’s Food Stores

IRVINE, Calif. — True Drinks, Inc., a healthy beverage provider with major entertainment and media company licensing agreements for use of their characters on its proprietary, patented bottles, today announced…

Zevia Partners With the Oakland Athletics

LOS ANGELES — Starting with their 2014 Opening Homestand later this month, the Oakland Athletics will introduce Zevia as the first-ever naturally sweetened, zero calorie soda in Major League Baseball.…

FBU Boston: Entrepreneurship Isn’t a Hobby

If attendees walked away with anything from FBU Boston, a business education and networking event held by BevNET on Thursday at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter in South Boston, it’s that entrepreneurs are best suited to endure mistakes as early as possible and to fully commit to an idea.

Dunham’s Sports to Carry The Original Protein Shot

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Coming on the heels of its recent announcement of availability at 4100 CVS Caremark Corporation stores, www.cvs.com, as well as hundreds of Circle K stores in the…

MINTA Available at Los Angeles International Airport

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Jet-setters can now add some flavor to their trip with MINTA®. Launching in stores across both Terminal 2 and 5 of Los Angeles International Airport in…

The Winter of Discontent

Let’s face it: this winter has been one for the books, a tragedy, a horror story. Across the country, we have had to contend with record cold, brutal conditions, massive amounts of snow, sleet and freezing rain, all of which have made for an awful business climate. The only Polar I ever want to talk about is Polar Beverages, in Massachusetts, not polar vortex. Sadly, that weather is nevertheless the bane of the beverage business.

Zevia to Emphasize Single-Serve Channels

By communicating the brand’s health-focused proposition in easily comprehensible terms while targeting the everyman, the everymom and the everykids, Zevia has posted hearty results.

CircleUp Raises $14 Million for Brand Crowdfunding Platform

Equity crowdfunding platform CircleUp has raised $14 million in a new round of financing, the company announced today. The company, which attempts to enable entrepreneurs to reach qualified investors online to initiate or complete fund-raising rounds, says it has helped more than 30 companies raise over $30 million in growth capital, mostly in the consumer products space.

Expo West 2014: Nistico, McClafferty Back in the Saddle Again

Splash, which is operating as a wide-ranging turnkey sales operation, is being run by original Marley CEO Robert Nistico and Kevin McClafferty, who succeeded Nistico in that position. Also on board is Chief Marketing Officer Lee Brody, Marley’s former global director of marketing.

Video: Expo West 2014 Profile — Baagua

In the embedded video, which was filmed at Natural Products Expo West 2014, Baagua founder and CEO Dale Starnes said that the inclusion of whole-piece ingredients was “a happy accident.” It started as a practice of efficiency.