Bringing a hit international food brand to the U.S. sounds glamorous, but behind every success story is a maze of challenges most consumers never see. In this special crossover episode of Taste Radio and the Nombase Podcast, Lucía Conejo-Mir of Ines Rosales and Jennifer Donnellan of Lakrids by Bülow reveal the real work behind breaking into the American market.
Scottish ANA maker Spirits of Virtue is opening a 30,000 sq. ft. facility in Arkansas, where it will make alternatives to tequila and bourbon.
Horizon Family Brands has acquired organic, grass-fed dairy company Maple Hill Creamery, strengthening the company's retail presence, which already includes a selection products under the Horizon Organics and Wallaby Organics brands.
Non-alcoholic social tonic maker Hiyo is the latest beverage maker to align with concert promotion giant Live Nation, which has similarly backed brands like JOLENE Coffee, Liquid Death and Owen's Craft Mixers.
Better-for-you soda brand No Cap (stylized as NO CAP! Soda Pop) has added SoCal distributors John Lenore & Co. and various Anheuser-Busch InBev houses to its fleet of DSD partners.
BevNET Live (Dec. 7–9) begins next Sunday, and the room is nearly at capacity. More than 800 founders, operators, investors, and retail partners are already registered, with more joining daily.
Bev-alc suppliers are certainly looking to the holidays for a little cheer after sales were down across categories for the two-week period ending November 15, according to analysis of NIQ data from Goldman Sachs Equity Research.
In this week’s gallery, we take a look at new plant-based milk innovations from Silk and Pacific Foods, a stylish fresh collab from AriZona, a mushroom-infused social tonic, and for anyone who needs some help digesting their Thanksgiving dinner, there's Pepsi Prebiotic.
Mockly and Huxley? Sounds like they could be related, and in a way, they are: both the drinks in this week's reviews roundup are sporting freshly revamped branding.
It’s time to introduce the judges for BevNET’s signature pitch competition, the New Beverage Showdown, taking place during BevNET Live in L.A. December 7-9. More than 750 are registered and limited seats remain.
Prebiotic cola, plant-based (and AI-inspired?) pulled chicken and protein-packed marshmallows. The hosts crack open Pepsi’s new prebiotic cola and discuss whether a stevia-sweetened “functional” soda can win over classic cola fans. They also dig into Just Meat’s big win at Walmart and what it says about the future of meat analogs, and why protein marshmallows might actually work in your next s’more.
Cactus water brand Caliwater has inked a partnership with the Sacramento Kings and Golden 1 Center for the 2025-2026 NBA season.
If you’re a spirits company taking its marketing cues from CPG, you may be doing it wrong.
Functional beverage Chlorophyll Water is raising its first institutional round as it unveils an aluminum can format and prepares to enter Walmart.
