This Week’s New Products: Non-Alcoholic Cocktails, Plus SunnyD Super Greens

In this week’s new products gallery, health and wellness brand BEAM teams up with SunnyD to create a limited edition Super Greens flavor, Spindrift kicks off summer early with its Peach Strawberry offering and Devil’s Foot and ISH roll out new non-alcoholic cocktail offerings.

The Five Ways RTD Alcohol Consumption is Changing, According to NIQ

Ready-to-drink (RTD) beverage alcohol consumption has grown 104% in the past two years, according to NIQ, but how are consumers making shopping decisions, and where are they enjoying the growing variety of flavored malt beverages, canned cocktails and seltzers?

BevNET Live Summer 2023: How Sprouts Seeks Out Innovative Beverage Brands

The beverage purchasing team from Sprouts Farmers Market will walk attendees through the discovery, intake and support process for new beverage brands as they seek to break into this increasingly important retail chain during BevNET Live Summer 2023 in New York on June 14 and 15.

Factory, LLC Opens Up Manufacturing Arm

Factory, LLC’s name got a little more literal as the food and beverage investor and brand incubator opened up a 75,000 square foot co-manufacturing facility this year.

Review: Baloo Mind-Boosting Sparkling Water

Baloo is a line of flavored sparkling waters that are enhanced with nootropics, adaptogens and vitamins. The lineup includes three flavors, all with zero sugar and zero calories and  lightly sweetened with a blend of stevia and erythritol. 

New RTD Spirits: Spindrift Spiked, Deep Eddy and SWAY Release Summer-Inspired Sips

As the sunshine begins to stick around, many RTD cocktail producers are beginning to roll out summer-inspired sips. In this gallery, Atomic Coffee Roasters makes its first foray into the spirits world with an espresso martini offering, U.K.-based Funkin Cocktails splashes down in the U.S. and SoulBoxer expands its lineup of ready-to-pour bottled cocktails.

BevNET Live Summer 2023: Women in Beverage Breakfast on June 15

BevNET is partnering with Women in Beverage on their next networking event, which will take place the morning of Thursday, June 15th from 7:30 am to 9:00 am ET at BevNET Live Summer 2023. Join founders Michelle Cordeiro Grant and Madi Lieber for breakfast, coffee and conversations.

“Sparkling Beverages Continue To Blur Category Lines:” Six Questions With Christine Dang, Thrive Market Beverage Category Manager

Thrive Market’s beverage category manager Christine Dang talked to BevNET recently about the platform’s strategy evolution during and after the pandemic, how the direct-to-consumer model provides different challenges to the beverage category and how pack size and format play an integral role in curating the platform’s offerings.

CoreBev to Acquire Distillery, Launches Rum and Non-Alc RTD

It’s been a busy Spring for Connecticut-based spirits company the CoreBev Group. The startup is gearing up for two launches next month including a Greek rum and a non-alcoholic ready-to-drink cocktail— in addition to buying its own distillery.