Susan Heiser joins nutpods as Sales Director, Natural and will leverage her significant experience with emerging brands to lead nutpods’ continued expansion into the Natural Channel. Most recently, Susan was the Director of National Sales at Caveman Foods and prior to that was the National Director of Sales at the Forager Project.
Adam Lewis is the founder and CEO of Miura, a startup brand focused on bringing barista-quality coffee to cans. Lewis founded the company to solve his own problem: he wanted the quality and precision of craft coffee in a ready-to-drink format.
Koios Beverage Corp. has announced that it has entered into a distributor agreement with Bill's Distributing, Ltd., a major beverage distributor in Wisconsin offering direct store delivery ("DSD") service, for distribution of its Fit Soda™ line of functional beverages. Bill's Distributing primarily serves the region of northwestern Wisconsin, representing more than 500 brands of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
Adult Fla-Vor-Ice and Otter Pops fans will rejoice this summer as The Jel Sert Company announced the launch of SLIQ Spirited Ice, a new premium alcoholic freezer bar poised to revolutionize mixology on ice, literally.
Humm Zero, the new sugar-free line from the Oregon-based kombucha brand, is set to launch in select markets and on Amazon in April. The product will be sold in 11 oz. single-serve cans ($2.99 SRP) and 4-packs ($9.99) in four flavors: Peach Tea, Blood Orange, Ginger Lemonade and Raspberry Lemonade.
Genius Juice, who was recently featured on Shark Tank in January 2020, is now entering Whole Foods Northeast which includes all Whole Foods in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
REBBL becomes one of the first in the industry to launch a transition to 100% Recycled & Recyclable plastic bottles. The plant-based beverage brand’s new Green Packaging Initiative applies to all of its 12 oz. drinks.
Cocoa Metro’s instant chocolate drink mix will join their current flagship item, a ready-to-drink Belgian chocolate milk sold in dairy coolers of retailers like Whole Foods Market and other natural channel retailers. The new product will go live on its site in April 2020.
La Colombe, the beverage industry leader in coffee innovation, will be highlighting an array of new flavors and concepts including BevNET’s Best of 2019 award-winning Oatmilk Draft Latte, as well the new Draft Chocolate Milk, at their booth at Expo West: Hall B, booth 1575.
Premier Protein is expanding on the success of its 30g Protein Shakes with a new line of smooth and creamy breakfast-inspired shakes featuring a balance of 20g of protein, 7g of fiber, 8g of whole grain oats and 24 vitamins and minerals.
Verve Coffee Roasters, a Santa Cruz-based specialty coffee company that produces the world’s highest quality craft coffee, has expanded its ready-to-drink Nitro Flash Brew Coffee line with Single Origin and is one of the first to market a Decaf offering.
Sunwink, the female founded sparkling herbal tonic brand on a mission to nourish and re-energize the human connection between ourselves and plants is launching their 5th flavor, Hibiscus Mint Unwind, as well as brand new packaging and design featured across all existing product in addition to the new debut flavor.
Vistar has taken a minority ownership stake in RTD yerba mate maker Yerbae, the beverage brand told BevNET, opening a partnership which will give the brand access to over 12,000 food service accounts nationwide. Yerbae CEO Todd Gibson said the investment comes as the brand prepares to roughly triple its retail distribution footprint by the end of this year.
Synapse, maker of the world’s first ready-to-drink, natural nootropic supplement for energy and focus, has been selected to participate in PepsiCo’s 2020 North America Greenhouse Accelerator program.
