Taste Nirvana Debuts Coconut Water With Thai Chili Extract
LOS ANGELES — Helping people cool off this summer, Taste Nirvana will launch a delicious and zesty Real Coconut Water with Thai Chili Extract in June. Known for creating innovative…
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Review: Koa Organic Water
Koa, the first runner-up in BevNET's New Beverage Showdown 5, is marketed as an "organic water" made from 100 percent juice. Wait, what? A water made from juice? Yes, indeed. The company uses a unique and proprietary process to extract and clarify a blend of fruit and vegetable juices to create one of the most innovative water products that we've ever seen.
Child Nutrition Specialist Joins Hydro One Beverages
GREENWOOD, S.C. — Hydro One Premium Beverages is proud to announce that Board Certified Health Coach Carmen Johnson has joined their company as their Child Nutrition Activist. Widely respected as…
Coke Zero Partners With Comedian to Screen Stand-Up Film
ATLANTA — Coke Zero celebrates guys being guys and humorously defends all things male this summer when the brand teams up with comedian Kevin Hart to promote his highly anticipated…
Spring Cleaning
There’s no excuse – it’s time for my annual office cleaning column, where I look around my beverage collection and mine it for insight. This year it will be especially poignant (for me, at least) as in July I’m moving to a new office a few blocks from my present digs. I have to clear out as much as I can before the move, and that makes for sober reflection of the huge collection of beverages I’ve amassed over the course of 21 years in the industry.
Photo Gallery – BevNET Live Summer ’13 Sponsors, Exhibitors, Speakers and Venue
Last week, BevNET Live Summer ’13 turned New York City’s Metropolitan Pavilion into a networking and educational mecca for nearly 600 beverage entrepreneurs, suppliers, retailers, distributors. Below are five photo galleries from the event, each showcasing the range of premium content and opportunities offered to attendees of BevNET Live.
Review: Pure Leaf
Sure, ready-to-drink tea remains a growth category, but the number of brands entering the space or extending current lines is increasing by the day. Crowded shelves makes branding and packaging of critical importance for brands to stand out amongst competing products. And the lack of a polished or innovative look is the most significant problem facing Pure Leaf, a line of iced tea drinks marketed by PepsiCo.
Microbial Control Agent Approved in Canada
PITTSBURGH — LANXESS’ Velcorin microbial control agent has been approved for use in water based non-alcoholic beverages and wine in Canada as of May 23, 2013. The Velcorin product is…
Wegmans Authorizes POWERCOCO
LOS ANGELES — POWERCOCO, a Premium Natural Sports Drink with twice the electrolytes, six times the potassium, a third less sugar, and half the calories and carbs of the leading…
BevNET TV: A Brief Look at the Legal Landscape
Filmed from within the cozy confines of the New Beverage Showdown lounge at BevNET Live Summer '13, we spoke with Justin Prochnow, an attorney with Greenberg Traurig LLP specializing in regulation affecting the beverage industry, who offered up a brief look at some of the most current and pressing legal issues facing beverage brands.
Alkalife Expands Distribution Footprint
Alkalife, the leading provider of alkaline dietary supplements and creator of the original pH booster drops, announced today that several major national retailers of natural products and grocery have introduced…
Shrugging Off Negativity, Energy Drink Companies Push Forward
Seemingly every month, an energy drink company takes a black eye from a new, harrowing slate of news, another lawsuit, a demeaning study, a band of legislators with belts tied too tight and constituencies to appease. Whether justified or not, energy drinks have been painted as an evil that’s worthy of no more than the pariah life. But the industry isn’t exactly flabbergasted.
Fordham & Dominion Brewing Creates Craft Beer and Homebrew Club
DOVER, Del. — Fordham & Dominion Brewing have recently partnered with HomeCraftBrewing.com to create “Bottles & Pints”, a craft beer and homebrew club.…
Review: Minta
A semifinalist in the recently held New Beverage Showdown 5 at BevNET Live Summer '13, Minta is a new line of mint-flavored sodas. The brand comes in original and diet varieties, each of which are packaged in a proprietary 12 oz. bottle. While the drinks could use some minor tweaks in formulation, Minta has done a great job overall.