AriZona Acquires Anaheim Plant From Manna Beverages
Manna Beverages has sold its Anaheim, California, production facility to U.S. Beverage Packers West LLC, a subsidiary of AriZona Beverages USA.
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Taste Radio: Innovation, Localization & Logistics. A Blueprint For Global Brands.
Bringing a hit international food brand to the U.S. sounds glamorous, but behind every success story is a maze of challenges most consumers never see. In this special crossover episode of Taste Radio and the Nombase Podcast, Lucía Conejo-Mir of Ines Rosales and Jennifer Donnellan of Lakrids by Bülow reveal the real work behind breaking into the American market.
Scotland’s Spirits Of Virtue Builds Arkansas Facility To Scale NA Tequila, Bourbon
Scottish ANA maker Spirits of Virtue is opening a 30,000 sq. ft. facility in Arkansas, where it will make alternatives to tequila and bourbon.
Horizon Acquires Maple Hill Creamery
Horizon Family Brands has acquired organic, grass-fed dairy company Maple Hill Creamery, strengthening the company's retail presence, which already includes a selection products under the Horizon Organics and Wallaby Organics brands.
Hiyo Lands Investment, Multi-Year Partnership with Live Nation
Non-alcoholic social tonic maker Hiyo is the latest beverage maker to align with concert promotion giant Live Nation, which has similarly backed brands like JOLENE Coffee, Liquid Death and Owen's Craft Mixers.
Distribution: No Cap! Grows SoCal Footprint; Fruga Debuts in Sprouts
Better-for-you soda brand No Cap (stylized as NO CAP! Soda Pop) has added SoCal distributors John Lenore & Co. and various Anheuser-Busch InBev houses to its fleet of DSD partners.
Bev-Alc Sales Slide Ahead of The Holidays
Bev-alc suppliers are certainly looking to the holidays for a little cheer after sales were down across categories for the two-week period ending November 15, according to analysis of NIQ data from Goldman Sachs Equity Research.
New Products: Prebiotic Pepsi, Plant-Based Protein and Psilly Libations
In this week’s gallery, we take a look at new plant-based milk innovations from Silk and Pacific Foods, a stylish fresh collab from AriZona, a mushroom-infused social tonic, and for anyone who needs some help digesting their Thanksgiving dinner, there's Pepsi Prebiotic.
Reviews: New Branding, Flavors for Mockly & Huxley Energy
Mockly and Huxley? Sounds like they could be related, and in a way, they are: both the drinks in this week's reviews roundup are sporting freshly revamped branding.
Taste Radio: Why We Need Pepsi Prebiotic… And Protein Marshmallows
Prebiotic cola, plant-based (and AI-inspired?) pulled chicken and protein-packed marshmallows. The hosts crack open Pepsi’s new prebiotic cola and discuss whether a stevia-sweetened “functional” soda can win over classic cola fans. They also dig into Just Meat’s big win at Walmart and what it says about the future of meat analogs, and why protein marshmallows might actually work in your next s’more.
Marketing: Caliwater Teams with Sacramento Kings; Stiller’s Is ‘Making Soda Sexy’
Cactus water brand Caliwater has inked a partnership with the Sacramento Kings and Golden 1 Center for the 2025-2026 NBA season.
Spirit Brands Preach Pivot from CPG Marketing Playbook
If you’re a spirits company taking its marketing cues from CPG, you may be doing it wrong.
Chlorophyll Water Seeking ‘Low Seven-Figure’ Round to Scale Into Aluminum, Walmart
Functional beverage Chlorophyll Water is raising its first institutional round as it unveils an aluminum can format and prepares to enter Walmart.
More Than Skin Deep: Inside the Mainstreaming of Ingestible Beauty
As the lines continue to blur between beauty and wellness, ingestible beauty, or “beauty-from-within,” products – particularly in powdered and ready-to-drink beverage formats – are gaining significant traction with consumers, proving that skincare is more than skin deep.