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Monster Beverage Will Join S&P 500

Late yesterday, Standard and Poor's announced that Monster Beverage will be added to the S&P 500 index next week. Monster will replace Sara Lee, which is splitting its North American business and international beverage business into two publicly traded companies. Monster, which has been publicly traded since 1995, will join the three major beverage companies - Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Dr Pepper Snapple - on the S&P 500.

Santa Cruz Organic Launches Sweet Deed Society

Celebrate Good Deeds to Help Donate 160,000 Meals to Feeding America® and for the Chance to Win a Beach Vacation and Other Prizes CHICO, Calif., June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ —…

Kiwaii Announces Authentic New Label Design

Hellertown, PA—June 19, 2012– Kiwaii True Spring Water wants everyone to know where their pure natural spring water comes from. That’s why Premium Healthy Spring Water Inc. (PHSW) announced today…

Party Armor Establishes New Distribution in Michigan

Hangover protection shot partners with Pisani Inc. and Four Seasons Beverage Of the Upper Peninsula in Michigan. Party Armor™ the “2oz. Hangover Protection™ shot” establishes distribution with Pisani, Inc.  and…

CSDs By the Numbers: Zero Gains Shrinking Pie for Coke

CSD share might be slipping as a percentage of total beverages consumed, but there’s a Zero-sum gain out there – Coke Zero, that is. After a long period of double-digit growth, the brand continues to be the growing star of the company’s sparkling portfolio. Over the past year, the brand grew a little over 4 percent, according to A.C. Nielsen Scantrack numbers in Food, Drug and Mass retailers to push it into third place in the diet drink category.

WILD Flavors Showcasing At IFT 2012

Celebrate Seasonal Flavors at Booth #401 Erlanger, KY (June 20, 2012) – WILD Flavors, Inc. (WILD) is exhibiting at the IFT Show in Las Vegas, from June 26 – 28th.…

PepsiCo’s Carey: Packaging Flexibility Key to New Growth

Calling PepsiCo’s lack of bottling flexibility “hard to believe,” PepsiCo Americas Beverages CEO Al Carey said that the company has begun working with some of its more creative bottlers to create new package sizes for its beverage business. Speaking at Deutsche Bank’s Global Consumer Conference, Carey said that it PepsiCo was focused on “holding or improving value share” by the end of 2012, but that it was unsustainable to continue lowering prices to improve its position.

Core Power Enters Coke System; VEB Investment on Tap?

Keep a close eye on this one, folks: Coca-Cola Refreshments is picking up Core Power, a milk-based protein drink manufactured with the product of two large dairy co-ops based in West Texas, New Mexico, and the Midwest.