BevNET Live Conference – Sold Out; Updated Agenda Available
All seats for the upcoming BevNET Live Entrepreneur and Innovation Conference have sold out. The event, which will be held May 14, 2009 at the Jumeirah Essex House in New…
Headlines
Diet sodas prevent kidney stones
Soda, which has been demonized in the public health debate for everything from containing too much sugar to containing artificial sweeteners rumored to cause cancer, recently received an unexpected public…
The Pepsi Bottling Group Rejects PepsiCo Acquisition Proposal
SOMERS, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. (NYSE: PBG) today announced that its Board of Directors has rejected as grossly inadequate a proposal by PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) to acquire all…
Coca-Cola fires back on Powerade suit
Coca-Cola fired back this week on a PepsiCo suit objecting to advertisements for Powerade ION4 by claiming that Coca-Cola had done nothing wrong – or, at least, that it hadn’t…
BevNET Live: Former CEO of Tazo Tea Added to Exit Strategy Panel
…
Wendy the Snapple Lady blasts new management
Snapple might have once given Wendy Kaufman – better known as “Wendy the Snapple Lady” – a Fifth Avenue parade, but the former spokeswoman this week gave current Snapple management…
Beverage Spectrum: April 30th Issue Now Available
…
Will Gatorade “G”-up its performance series?
Gatorade’s recent rebranding left one corner of its business untouched – the Gatorade Performance Series. The sub-brand aimed at serious athletes contains four product-lines for pre-, post- and during-workout uses,…
Reporter’s notebook: Coke, Pepsi trademarks
PepsiCo recently filed trademarks for two new varieties of Mountain Dew – Diet Mtn Dew White Flash and Diet Mtn Dew Ultra Violet. Both trademarks were filed at the end…
Experts Address Long-Held Misconceptions About High Fructose Corn Syrup at ILSI-USDA Workshop
WASHINGTON, April 27 /PRNewswire/ — A supplement to be published in the June issue of the Journal of Nutrition encourages the scientific community and the general public to stop demonizing…
Jerry Reda, COO of Big Geyser, Joins BevNET Live Program
…
The Board of the Directors of The Coca-Cola Company Elects Muhtar Kent Chairman
ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Board of Directors of The Coca-Cola Company today elected Muhtar Kent as chairman of the Board. Kent succeeds Neville Isdell, who retired following the Company’s Annual Meeting of…
Now it’s Lipton Green Tea’s turn to sparkle!
PURCHASE, N.Y. – April 22, 2009 – Today the Pepsi-Lipton Tea Partnership announced the launch of Lipton Sparkling Green Tea, marking the first-ever sparkling beverage from the Lipton trademark. A…
Are you on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn?
Do you or your company use Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn? If so, BevNET.com has several social networking options that might be of use to you. You’ll be able to network…