With a specialty in handling the kinds of emerging brands that are typically found sampling out of their booths at Natural Products Expo West, the more than 100 different fundraising rounds handled by food-and-beverage specialty law firm the Giannuzzi Group alone should serve as a fine indicator of the investment buzz that surrounded the event.
There were hundreds of new beverage brands, re-branded products, new sub-lines and changed formulations at Natural Products Expo West, which concluded its three-day stand in Anaheim, Calif. on Sunday, March 8. In the report below, BevNET correspondents John Craven and Ray Latif point out some of the most important and impactful new products.
The New York Times Magazine contributor Mary H.K. Choi has published a glowing review of La Croix sparkling water.
Made in Nature is trying to zig while others are zagging, introducing a new set of nutritious, premium juices called Telula in the shelf-stable juice aisle, long considered something of a center store backwater.
Get all the details you'll need about the show, including listings of beverage exhibitors (supplied by New Hope Natural Media), in BevNET’s print-ready show planner.
In the fast-paced, musical chairs-like comings and goings of the beverage industry, the departure of one leader makes way for the arrival of the next. Such is the case with KeVita, who recently announced the addition of two new members to its executive team.
Company co-founder Justin Guilbert said that do-it-yourself consumer blends had a substantial impact on Harmless Harvest’s decision to create a coffee-inflused product.
Big Geyser COO Jerry Reda says the addition of Boylan won’t come at the expense of GuS, its other craft soda offering, which it has distributed since 2003.
A growing number of mainstream consumers want to add chia to their diets, yet many are wary of high calorie and sugar counts in products formulated with the trendy and nutrient-dense ingredient. That premise is behind the development a new brand extension from Chia\Vie called Chia Infusions.
The “conscious capital” private equity firm announced its intentions for 2015 last week, stating it would be seeking to make investments in three new companies by the fourth-quarter of the year.
In the nearly three months since its resounding victory in BevNET’s New Beverage Showdown 8, Tio Gazpacho has aligned itself with some powerful partners, and is now in midst for a big distribution push.
In a conference call with investors, Monster CEO Rodney Sacks said the company achieved gross sales of $696.3 million in the three month period ending 12/31/14.
Renamed as Temple Turmeric, the brand's new label that emphasizes and centers the mandala artwork on the labels of the high pressure processed, juice-and-nutrient-rich product line.
The introduction marks yet another foray into the burgeoning world of cold-pressed, high-pressure processed juices by a food and beverage conglomerate.
