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Knock it Off

One of the most enjoyable parts of my work is that I get to visit with so many beverage marketers. They open up their offices, share their visions, and let me catch a glimpse of the drawing board. We talk to assess the trends, past and present successes and failures, and where to go next. Bringing out new brands and SKUs, and upgrading packaging efforts, make for key aspects for competing, envisioning the next great thing, and staying solvent.

Brewers Association Website Selects Great American Beer Bars

BOULDER, Colo. — There’s more to a great beer bar than selection. To recognize the innovative and unique establishments where craft brewed beer is served,CraftBeer.com—the Brewers Association (BA) website for…

Review: Popeye Energy

Popeye Energy is an energy drink that is made with 75 percent juice and labeled as an energy supplement. While juice-heavy energy drinks have been tried before without much success, it seems like something that fits well with the Popeye brand.

Life Is Good Festival to Feature Reed’s, Inc.

LOS ANGELES — Reed’s, Inc. (NYSE MKT: REED), maker of the top-selling sodas in natural food stores nationwide, announced today that Reed’s Ginger Brews, Virgil’s Sodas and Reed’s Culture Club…

The Juice Uprising

Talk about premium. The juice category keeps getting closer to fresh-squeezed, and improving price points as it does. By constantly raising the ceiling on process technology, the top end of the juice category continues to allow the development of new brands and a new definition of fresh.

Review: IQ Energy

IQ Energy is a liquid supplement that is marketed as one that will boost energy and enhance memory capabilities. Formulated with caffeine and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide + hydrogen, which the company promotes as a “NASA tested” ingredient, the product is, in our opinion, likely to face the same stumbles as others that touted "memory-enhancing" functionality.