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Spotlight Category: Energy Drinks – A Year Over Year Comparison

With a number of "zero" branded drinks leading new growth in the category, energy is chugging along – up to $7.2 billion sans Walmart and a few other key chains. While it remains to be seen if the recent negative publicity surrounding energy drinks has a significant impact on sales, the category appears to be surging to $10 billion in annual revenue...

November 15 is the Deadline to Submit Your Brand for BevNET’s Best of 2012 Awards

Time is running out to submit your brand for BevNET's Best of 2012 Awards! November 15 is the last day that we are accepting submissions for our 9th annual “Best of” awards, which are announced in December and will feature winners in over 12 categories. Winners will be invited to participate in the awards presentation at BevNET Live Winter 2012, and will have the ability to use the BevNET Best of 2012 logo in press releases, marketing materials, and product packaging.

Glanbia Nutritionals Launches 5-Log Kill Process for Flax

Fitchburg, WI – Glanbia Nutritionals has introduced its most thorough flaxseed heat treatment process to date. Independently validated by a third party, Glanbia Nutritionals’ MicroSure™ Plus intensive heat treatment is…

Energy-X Launches The Juice, A Neutral Taste Energy Drink

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)—Pacific Shore Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:PSHR): For a long time now consumers have been hoping for an energy drink that doesn’t taste awful! Red Bull, Monster and others are…

Sambazon: “Consumer Reports Got it Wrong”

Following the release of a Consumer Reports study that investigated the actual versus reported caffeine content in a variety of energy drinks, acai-drink maker Sambazon issued a statement that questioned the magazine’s inclusion of its Amazon Energy drink and refuted the study’s findings that the beverage contained more caffeine that listed on its label.

Tidy Profits: Premium Ingredients Drive Growth in Kids’ Beverages

Kids are used to hearing they need to clean up their rooms. Now drinks aimed at kids are cleaning up their ingredients. It’s part of a broader cleanup of American lifestyles. Particularly in the CPG arena, there’s a growing awareness that the earlier the life stage, the easier it is to create a natural or organic foods consumer. And the kids themselves are aware, as well...

Review: Red Jacket Tart Cherry Juice

As tart cherries continue to gain attention as a "super fruit" on the rise, Red Jacket Orchards has launched “Tart Cherry Stomp,” a 100 percent juice blend of tart cherry juice, apple juice, and vitamin C. While we were hoping for a bolder, more tart cherry flavor - as the name might imply - the new beverage is nicely packaged, and, with a few tweaks to its formulation, has the potential to be an stand-out in the juice category.