After just six months on the market, female-focused energy drink Gorgie is already finding its stride. The New York-based brand founded by Michelle Cordeiro Grant announced the close of a $6.5 million pre-seed funding round today.
This week features a conversation with GN Chan, the founder of Double Chicken Please, a New York City bar widely recognized as one of the best in the world. As part of our interview, Chan explained his view of the bar as “a design and performance studio,” an innovative menu in which you “drink your food and eat your drink” and the regionality of non-alcoholic cocktail and spirit trends.
PartnerSlate, a contract manufacturing database, has raised $4 million to expand its PartnerMatch platform which connects food and beverage brands to co-mans using AI streamlining the process of searching for and matching with suitable producers.
View the complete agenda for BevNET Live Summer 2023, held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York, NY on June 14 and 15.
We chat with the stars of TV series Vampire Diaries, Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley, who have sunk their teeth into the bourbon industry with Brother’s Bond Bourbon.
There’s big money flowing into emerging concepts… and we have the receipts. Within this episode, the hosts discussed canned wine, plant-based analogs of popular snacks and THC-centric brands. We also discussed influential trends and innovative products in the evolving world of mixology in interviews with past World Class US Bartenders of the Year Jessi Pollak and Adam Fournier along with James Beard-honored mixologist and author Kim Haasarud.
Jones Soda has named David Knight as its new president and CEO, effective June 23, replacing outgoing executive Mark Murray. Knight comes to the Seattle-based craft soda brand from CBD company CFH Ltd., where he has served as chief beverage officer since 2021.
In this week’s new products roundup, Coca-Cola teams up with Riot Games to launch the ‘Ultimate’ gamer-focused flavor, Liquid I.V. debuts its first sugar-free product and Boxed Water, 100 Coconuts and Karma Hydration launch fruit-forward offerings sure to keep consumers hydrated in the summer heat.
While inflation may have hit consumers’ wallets hard last year, it hasn’t curbed their appetite for new CPG innovation, according to the 2023 New Product Pacesetters report from market research firm Circana.
After an explosive few years, the ready-to-drink rise is showing signs of moderating but larger formats of pre-mixed cocktails may be an emerging growth opportunity, according to NIQ during the company’s C360 conference yesterday.
Energy drink Kill Cliff announced it is expanding its partnership with celebrity podcaster Joe Rogan and adding endurance sport and bowhunting influencer Cameron Hanes as a new collaborator on an exclusive CBD beverage, Elk Blood Spicy Cherry.
It’s time to reveal the semifinalists and judges for BevNET’s signature pitch competition, the New Beverage Showdown, taking place at BevNET Live in NYC on June 14 + 15.
8th Wonder Brewery, Distillery and Cannabis has been acquired by Bayou City Hemp Company, a Houston, Texas-headquartered cannabis company. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
Watermelon water maker Mela has partnered with independent California distributor Stone Distributing Co., making it one of the first non-alcoholic beverage brands in the DSD house’s portfolio of beer, hard kombucha and spirits brands.
