New Age Beverages Corporation, the Colorado and Utah-based organic and natural beverage company intending to become the world’s leading healthy beverages and lifestyles company has announced the signing of a distribution agreement with Hudson News to expand New Age’s healthy beverage portfolio throughout the Northeast and in select key national accounts.
The progressive and innovative Happy Planet brand is expanding its oatmilk portfolio with a new Barista Edition Oatmilk and Chocolate Oatmilk. This category saw a +425 percent growth from last year and continues to surge in popularity, with over 50 percent of Americans now purchasing dairy-free milk.
Sneakz Organic has introduced Meal2Go complete nutrition shakes for adults to its line of pure, whole food blended meal supplement and replacement drinks. Boasting a full serving of daily vegetables, Meal2Go combines 16 g of plant protein, 17 vitamins and minerals, ancient grains, quinoa, ashwagandha and probiotics.
Right On Brands, Inc. has announced Worldwide Beverage Group, a leading distributor of fine spirits, wine and beer in the state of Kansas will provide ENDO Water product to retail, restaurant and bar accounts throughout the state. Worldwide Beverage Group has accepted their first order of CBD based ENDO Brands product for distribution through its sales network.
Phivida Holdings Inc. is pleased to announce a partnership signed on April 5, 2019 with Scout Distribution, an innovative beverage distributor based in San Diego, California. Scout will be the official distributor of Oki beverages in the San Diego area, a region with over three million people that is also ranked as a top ten wellness market by the MINDBODY Wellness Index.
The market is wide open for beverage entrepreneurs to jump in with innovative and engaging new CBD and hemp-based drinks. Yet established players are equally focused on the potential for CBD as an opportunity to extend existing product lines and inject new energy and dimension to their brands.
ICONIC Protein, Truly Grassfed Verified protein company, launched its core line of 11.5 oz. protein drinks (Chocolate Truffle, Vanilla Bean and Cafe Latte) in Whole Foods Markets nationwide.
Fairlife is heading west as construction is set to begin this year on a new 300,000-square-foot production facility in Goodyear, Ariz. The brand anticipates the $200 million facility will be online by the second half of 2020.
Andrew Aussie is the president of Up to Good, a beverage company that is upcycling coffee waste to offer a unique energy drink. The beverage is brewed with cascara, the coffee cherry, which is normally disposed of in coffee processing. The brand believes its sustainable focus, direct trade practices and mission to give back to coffee farmers will resonate with millennials.
Clear/Cut Phocus (Phocus), a first-of-its-kind premium sparkling water containing natural caffeine and L-Theanine, will now be available in select regions of New York including all five boroughs of New York City, Long Island, Westchester and Putnam County through Big Geyser Inc.
The Granny Squibb Company has announced that in the wake of growth, Jamie Schapiro will join the team as CEO and Emma Haskell as project manager.
Aloha, a pioneer in the plant-based protein industry, has announced the launch of its newest innovation, a protein drink. Available in three delicious flavors, Chocolate Sea Salt, Coconut and Vanilla, the convenient and nutritious protein drinks provide 18 g of protein with only 5 g of coconut sugar.
Hälsa – the Scandinavian organic drinkable oat yogurt sensation, Oatgurt – has experienced 120 percent baseline growth in the past three months. In addition to Wegmans and selected New York stores Hälsa is now also available at ShopRite, Fresh Direct and at all three New York City airports through grab-and-go retailers and kiosks.
Tetra Pak has announced the launch of its connected packaging platform, which will transform milk and juice cartons into interactive information channels, full-scale data carriers and digital tools. Driven by the trends behind Industry 4.0, and with code generation, digital printing and data management at its core, the connected packaging platform will bring new benefits to food producers, retailers and shoppers.
