Review: Pretty Tasty Collagen Tea
Pretty Tasty Collagen Tea offers a refreshing take on the ready-to-drink (RTD) tea category with a beneficial twist: each can is enhanced with 10g of collagen protein.
Taste Radio: A Trendy Retailer May Have Run Its Race, But There’s Still Road Ahead
What happens when a small, but influential, retailer unexpectedly closes all of its stores? What does its closure say about the trends it embraced? The hosts discuss. They also test out a “nu” machine that produces on-demand plant-based milk and highlight a motley crew of RTD beverages.
Flyers Hemp THC Cocktail Brand Takes Flight with Series Seed
Hemp-based beverage brand Flyers Cocktail Co. announced this week that it closed a Series Seed funding round led by cannabis-focused investment firm Delta Emerald Ventures. Now the brand’s co-founder and CEO Craig “Lewie” Lewis says the company is off the ground and cruising.
New Products: Pressed Juicery’s Nootropics Collection, Plus Liquid Death, Gatorade, Snapple & More
In this week’s new products roundup, we look at a new eclipse-themed beverage from Snapple, a smaller pack size for Liquid Death, and a handful of ready-to-drink launches from Starbucks.
BevNET Live Summer 2024: Diageo Ventures’ Sallie Jian on Emerging Brands
Emerging brands from across the beverage spectrum will have the chance to learn about the ways that strategics like Diageo think about partnerships and investment when Sallie Jian, the Head of North America for Diageo Ventures, takes the stage at BevNET Live Summer 2024 in New York, held June 12 and 13.
CPG Week: WTF? N.A. Retailer Goes M.I.A.
The CPG Week team brings on BevNET spirits editor Ferron Salniker to talk about the rumors circulating around adult non-alcoholic beverage retailer Boisson and the group discusses how far is too far with edgy branding in the beverage industry.
Boisson Closing Retail Stores Amid ‘Restructuring,’ As Non-Alc Industry Looks for Answers
Leading adult non-alc (NA) retailer Boisson is shutting down retail outlets and is “restructuring,” according to the founder of one NA brand that was informed of the news by a former Boisson employee.
Becoming an Attractive Target: Four Keys to Securing Investment for Spirit Companies
What makes a spirit company a good target for acquisition? That’s the question a panel of experts answered at the DISCUS annual conference in San Diego earlier this month.
BevNET & Nosh Community Calls This April: VMG Investment Strategies, Special Retail Opportunities with RangeMe, and Securing Angel Investors
Get ready for our April Community Calls! This month, learn how to find, pitch, and collaborate with angel investors, optimize your brand’s presence among retailers in search results by leveraging RangeMe, and get a deeper look at VMG’s evolving investment criteria.
Taste Radio: How Momofuku’s ‘Objection’ Helped It Generate $50M In Sales
Marguerite Zabar Mariscal, the CEO of Momofuku, the admired restaurant group founded by David Chang, and Momofuku Goods, a brand of restaurant-quality pantry items inspired by modern Asian cuisine, explains how “a conscientious objection” to complacency has fueled constant improvement and why she’s intent on building companies that have “optionality.”
Morgan Wallen-Backed Ryl Tea Targets Awareness, Accessibility Via DSD
As a fast-rising company in a fast-growing category, Ryl Tea is at an early inflection point in its short lifespan. Speaking about its run thus far, CEO and founder Blodin Ukella emphasized the brand’s attention to efficiency, cash flow and judicious P&L.
After Rapid Rise in Midwest, BUBBL’R Goes Nationwide with Target
BUBBL’R is going nationwide in Target, bringing the Wisconsin-based sparkling water brand to top coastal beverage markets for the first time. Developed and owned by Pepsi-Cola bottler Wis-Pak, BUBBL’R produces a line of functional sparkling waters containing antioxidants, vitamins and 69 mg of caffeine per 12 oz. slim can.
WTF: Lucky F*ck Energy Announces Rebrand, New Investment
Less than a year removed from its launch, Lucky Energy (formerly Lucky F*ck Energy) has landed a fresh $8 million investment as the energy drink rebrands itself to find new distribution opportunities.
Marketing: Beverage’s Best April Fool’s Pranks
Running a business in the high-stakes beverage industry is a serious undertaking – for 364 days of the year, that is. But today, April Fool’s Day, is more of a laughing matter.