In this highlight episode culled from interviews with six of the leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs who joined us on the podcast during the second half of 2019, we examine the role that relationships play in the development of great businesses.
In this video recorded at BevNET Live Winter 2019 TF Ventures founder Tom First, Piper Jaffray managing director Janica Lane and The Giannuzzi Group's Nick Giannuzzi sit down to discuss the lessons of the past 10 years and what the new decade might look like. The trio touch on the market for corporate exits and the shifting emphasis from strategics towards profitability and proven success.
The final product launches of the year (and decade) saw many brands offer a jolt of energy to consumers, with new caffeinated innovations announced for Pepsi, Gatorade, Soylent and Sol-ti. Check out the gallery for December’s notable product launches, including limited edition cans from Perrier and Recess and the latest from LaCroix.
Somerset is a line of caffeinated sparkling waters that come in three flavors: Grapefruit Elderflower, Cucumber Moroccan Mint and Peach Lemon Verbena. The products contain no calories or sweeteners and are enhanced with 42 mg of natural caffeine per 12 oz can.
Silverback Draft Tea Expands to 250 Doors; Clear/Cut Phocus Adds Tops Friendly Market Stores; Rocky Mountain High Brands Grows Distribution for HEMPd Line; Queen City Hemp Expands in Midwest, Southeast; Glanbia Partners with Kalil Bottling Company for Optimum Nutrition Expansion
In this video recorded at BevNET Live Winter 2019 in Santa Monica, California, Mark Olivieri, president of plant-based protein brand OWYN, and Jason Cohen, founder and co-CEO of Halen Brands, which acquired OWYN in 2017, discuss how a brand can create not just a transaction, but a movement.
Jonathan Hekmat is the founder and CEO of WeHo Bev Co., the makers of Chaser, a zero sugar, zero calorie shot chaser and cocktail mixer that aims to serve Millennial and Gen Z consumers looking for a healthy alternative to mask the aftertaste of alcohol. The product features hemp CBD and electrolytes to help prevent hangovers.
In this video recorded at BevNET Live Winter 2019 in Santa Monica, California, Christopher offers his key lessons from the field; developing sales teams, focusing on the right accounts, using data to fuel innovation and knowing when and how to spend marketing budgets.
When the founders of Kitu Life Super Coffee, makers of protein-enhanced RTD coffees and a recent BevNET Best of 2019 award winner, noticed “locker room” culture creeping into the start-up’s New York office last year, they sought to stamp it out by adding a new team member: a philosopher.
At the close of a year spent honing its image and messaging, electrolyte infusion beverage maker ROAR Organic is channeling its momentum into the launch of Electrolyte Powder Sticks, a three-SKU line of single-serving mix packets.
In this roundup of recent investment and M&A news, New York-based Grady's Cold Brew kicks off a crowdfunding investment campaign online, IFF and DuPont come together, and the merger of Peet's Coffee and Jacobs Douwe Egberts sets the stage for potentially the world's biggest publicly traded coffee company.
In this video recorded at BevNET Live Winter 2019 in Santa Monica, California, Wandering Bear co-founder and CEO Matt Bachmann dives into how his early stage coffee brand has interwoven its multi-channel strategy with its marketing strategy and minimized dependence on traditional retail outlets in order to meet consumers at the office, on the shelf and directly in their kitchens through ecommerce.
This week, members of the BevNET and NOSH editorial teams joined us for a discussion of some of the major news stories, trends and innovation from 2019. Among the topics of conversation were developments in the burgeoning cannabis CPG segment, explosive growth in the oat milk and sparkling water categories and the evolution of frozen food and plant-based meats.
In a complaint filed in Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County on September 11, three distributors — North Carolina-based Carolina Beverage Corp. and Dixie Riverside and Alligator Beverage, both headquartered in Georgia — claim Fiji Water broke their respective contracts by forcing retailers in their sales territories to stop accepting product deliveries and making no attempt to negotiate terms to service those accounts
