AQUA Carpatica, the still natural spring water and naturally sparkling mineral water brand, was honored with the 2019 Natural Product Business Excellence Award by the Consulate General of Romania in Los Angeles on Friday, December 6th at an awards ceremony held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
Vita Coco, the leading coconut water beverage brand, is teaming up with Postmates, the leader in delivering nearly anything on-demand, to celebrate National Hangover Day.
In this video recorded at BevNET Live Winter 2019 in Santa Monica, California, Mark Olivieri, president of plant-based protein brand OWYN, and Jason Cohen, founder and co-CEO of Halen Brands, which acquired OWYN in 2017, discuss how a brand can create not just a transaction, but a movement.
Jonathan Hekmat is the founder and CEO of WeHo Bev Co., the makers of Chaser, a zero sugar, zero calorie shot chaser and cocktail mixer that aims to serve Millennial and Gen Z consumers looking for a healthy alternative to mask the aftertaste of alcohol. The product features hemp CBD and electrolytes to help prevent hangovers.
In this video recorded at BevNET Live Winter 2019 in Santa Monica, California, Christopher offers his key lessons from the field; developing sales teams, focusing on the right accounts, using data to fuel innovation and knowing when and how to spend marketing budgets.
Genius Juice has taken their capital raising efforts online, officially launching a full platform on WeFunder.Com to raise their next round of capital.
When the founders of Kitu Life Super Coffee, makers of protein-enhanced RTD coffees and a recent BevNET Best of 2019 award winner, noticed “locker room” culture creeping into the start-up’s New York office last year, they sought to stamp it out by adding a new team member: a philosopher.
The stampede is coming, America. Today, GNC Holdings, Inc., a global health and wellness brand that helps people LIVE WELL, announced the launch of MAD PONY ENERGY, available exclusively at the retailer and on GNC.com.
At the close of a year spent honing its image and messaging, electrolyte infusion beverage maker ROAR Organic is channeling its momentum into the launch of Electrolyte Powder Sticks, a three-SKU line of single-serving mix packets.
In this roundup of recent investment and M&A news, New York-based Grady's Cold Brew kicks off a crowdfunding investment campaign online, IFF and DuPont come together, and the merger of Peet's Coffee and Jacobs Douwe Egberts sets the stage for potentially the world's biggest publicly traded coffee company.
In this video recorded at BevNET Live Winter 2019 in Santa Monica, California, Wandering Bear co-founder and CEO Matt Bachmann dives into how his early stage coffee brand has interwoven its multi-channel strategy with its marketing strategy and minimized dependence on traditional retail outlets in order to meet consumers at the office, on the shelf and directly in their kitchens through ecommerce.
This week, members of the BevNET and NOSH editorial teams joined us for a discussion of some of the major news stories, trends and innovation from 2019. Among the topics of conversation were developments in the burgeoning cannabis CPG segment, explosive growth in the oat milk and sparkling water categories and the evolution of frozen food and plant-based meats.
Llanllyr SOURCE, the premium Spring Water and Natural Mixer brand, has been chosen by The West Hollywood EDITION hotel, which launched in November, for all of its bars and guest rooms. The move comes as the global hotel group moves towards a plastic-free and more sustainable-focussed future, having launched its Stay Plastic Free initiative in 2018.
In a complaint filed in Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County on September 11, three distributors — North Carolina-based Carolina Beverage Corp. and Dixie Riverside and Alligator Beverage, both headquartered in Georgia — claim Fiji Water broke their respective contracts by forcing retailers in their sales territories to stop accepting product deliveries and making no attempt to negotiate terms to service those accounts
