Actress and experienced CPG investor Kristen Bell announced today that she has joined PLEZi, the kids drink brand co-founded by former First Lady Michelle Obama, as an investor and brand partner to grow brand awareness and accessibility.
Hella Cocktail Co., known for its bitters and mixers, is making a foray into bev-alc with a ready-to-drink (RTD) line debuting this week, Hella Margaritas.
Serial entrepreneur Lance Collins – creator of some of the most successful beverage brands of the past two decades, including BodyArmor, Fuze, NOS and Core – talks about his current and past ventures, lessons from successes and missteps, the reason that founders fail and why he encourages them to make “fast mistakes.”
BevNET and Nosh are excited to announce an exclusive data series for Insiders! We’re kicking off this series by introducing new “State of the Category” reports with Brightfield Group.
After discontinuing its Blackberry flavor three years ago due to a Pacific Northwest heatwave that abruptly spiked the price of berries, Spindrift today announced the flavor’s return.
Our latest distribution roundup finds Berczy getting in on the hard tea race in the Northeast and Woody Harrelson’s spirits heading into Massachusetts, while prepared cocktails Tequio and DIO sign deals with new distributors as they go deep in California and New York respectively.
Loom, the brainchild of Bill Butrymowicz, VP at Jersey Shore DSD house Seaview Beverage, is a new line of juice drinks that will begin rolling out to stores and online this summer. Butrymowicz will be leading the brand as CEO while also continuing to run the distribution business that was founded by his father, using Seaview’s fleet as an immediate entry point into the market.
The future of Foxtrot is once again in question after assets belonging to the shuttered grocery chain were acquired today by Further Point Enterprises via auction for $2.2 million, according to a report from Crain’s Chicago Business.
If Tip Top Proper Cocktails had the resources, it would’ve released 11 new styles of canned cocktails this year.
How do you educate consumers on the herbological origins of chocolate while they’re standing in the store aisle, deciding whether or not to try their luck on a drink called “Cacao Water”? Five years into his cacao products venture Blue Stripes, chocolatier Oded Brenner has yet to find the perfect answer. But he’s getting closer.
Dates, consumed for millenia, are having a modern moment. But can the superfood maintain its momentum, particularly among mainstream consumers? And, while we’re asking: has “superfood” lost its luster? Taste Radio’s hosts have their say. We also sit down with MMA icon Quentin “Rampage” Jackson, who is a partner with upstart beverage brand F3 Energy.
This week’s new product gallery reads a bit like a superhero team-up comic, thanks to a few eye-catching collaborations from C4, Alani Nu, and Gatorade. Plus, Bones Coffee takes coffee drinkers to a galaxy far, far away.
Spirits sales at restaurants and bars are mostly steady, with recent data from WSWA’s SipSource and NIQ’s CGA revealing more optimism for the year but still pointing to lower growth levels than in past years. In other happenings on-premise, March Madness was a slam dunk for bars and vodka may find more possibilities in fine dining.
SunOpta reported double-digit gains in both revenue growth and gross profit in its Q1 2024 earnings report released yesterday, with the plant-based milk supplier feeling “encouraged by the progress of our capacity investments,” per CEO Brian Kocher.
