The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting & Food Expo opens this Sunday in Chicago. BevNET will be on the show floor meeting with flavor, ingredient and beverage technology exhibitors, and below, you’ll find details about the show, listings of beverage-related exhibitors, and BevNET’s print-ready show planner.
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This morning, the Internet brought us the following news: A plaintiff named “Diane” has reportedly filed a claim against Monster Beverage Corp., blaming the company’s energy drinks as the reason for the death of a victim named as “Uncle Rickie.” The 59-year-old man was an aficionado of Jager Bombs made with Monster Energy, and Uncle Rickie had already had a couple when he died. Diane said that she knows “for a damn fact” that it was the energy drinks that did him in.
The Kroger Company is expanding more than its natural, organic beverage options. It’s also expanding its already massive footprint, moving more heavily into the southeast and mid-Atlantic markets via acquisition.
Thursday is your last chance to secure a listing in BevNET's 2013 Natural Beverage Guide, the beverage industry’s largest guide to beverages targeting the natural channel, including juices, teas, bottled waters, CSDs, concentrates, powders, and other natural beverage enhancers. This key resource will be aimed at beverage retailers and distributors who are looking to include additional natural products.
Bustling with delicacies, deals and debuts, the Fancy Food Show returned to New York City’s Jacob Javits Center after a two-year stint in Washington D.C. -- and, let’s face it, there’s no place like the Big Apple. Visiting with beverage industry stalwarts and new players alike, BevNET spoke with a number of executives at the event, with many offering news and insight that might prove to have a significant impact on the second half of the year -- and well beyond.
Exclusive, which carries over 30 beverage brands in its portfolio, would ship direct from its headquarters in Long Island, eschewing sub-distributors and the construction of a warehouse facility in the New England region, according to an executive with the company.
Lawyers for Monster Beverage Corp. must be accustomed to courthouses by now. However, this time around, the company is being subjected to a different kind of lawsuit. Caffeine doesn’t even enter the picture.
Greg Fleishman, the veteran marketing hand brought on to help broaden the company’s consumer base, has left the company after a three-year run. Sambazon CEO Ryan Black confirmed Fleishman’s departure, saying that the separation was amicable and that the brand – which sells products largely based on the Amazonian Acai berry – is on a positive growth trajectory.
Although many beverage brands have turned their attention toward innovative sweeteners, a recent study shows that most consumers aren’t yet doing the same.
Coke announced on Wednesday in a company release that it will sell a cola sweetened with sugar and stevia in Argentina. The new product, Coca-Cola Life, will contain half the calories of a standard Coke.
Brain-Twist may be all said and done, but Larry Trachtenbroit’s unquenchable thirst for beverage innovation lives on with the launch of 2B, a line of all-natural, aloe-infused and monk fruit-sweetened enhanced waters. 2B is the first beverage line out of Think-It Drink-It, Trachtenbroit’s first beverage venture since the demise of Brain-Twist.
Pushing into Midwest DSD for the first time, Purity Organic will be going through high-profile, get-it-done distributor Central Beverage Co.
The 2013 Summer Fancy Food Show begins this Sunday in New York City. The show is North America's largest exhibition for specialty, natural, and gourmet foods and beverages, and BevNET.com will be on hand to report on news and innovation from beverage-related exhibitors at the show.
