Premium water brand Essentia expands its in-house creative team through a pair of new hires, while BOS Brands brings on a new U.S. managing director ahead of a national launch.

Snack brand Beanfields announced today that Mark Rampolla, founder of coconut water brand Zico, has left his role as CEO of the company and former Califia Farms executive Arnulfo Ventura has stepped into the role.

During his presentation at BevNET Live Summer 2018 in June, Nick Giannuzzi, managing partner at The Giannuzzi Group, highlighted the need for brands to thoroughly prepare ahead of a potential exit or investment, even from an early stage.

In an effort to better understand the non-alcoholic beverage space, Craft Beer Alliance has ramped up its innovation efforts and has begun looking beyond beer for possible future growth opportunities.

Pillars,a Massachusetts-based startup which launched in 2016, is seeking to position itself as a healthier alternative to many of the other drinkable yogurts on the market, promoting call outs such including no added sugars, grass-fed cows, and both prebiotics and probiotics.

Speaking with BevNET from the 2018 Summer Fancy Food Show, Tio Gazpacho founder Austin Allan discussed how the brand is working to bring its products beyond natural and specialty retailers and make them more accessible to a wide array of consumers.

Premium bottled water brand Fiji will discontinue its distribution partnership with Keurig Dr Pepper, effective October 1, the company announced today. The brand will take control over much of its distribution and plans to build out a direct store delivery (DSD) network supported by its parent The Wonderful Company.

Despite tepid growth numbers for the spring, PepsiCo is placing an increased emphasis on innovation and incubation, chairwoman and CEO Indra Nooyi told investors and analysts during the company’s second quarter earnings call today.

In this interview recorded at the 2018 Summer Fancy Food Show, Wandering Bear Coffee co-founder Bachmann discussed the brand's new flavors, building consumer awareness and creating an infrastructure to support growth.

In the above video filmed at the Summer Fancy Food Show 2018, BevNET managing editor Ray Latif spoke with representatives from five incubators featured in the event's "Incubator Village" about their respective missions, how they are supporting early-stage brands with innovative concepts and about some of the success stories that have come from their work.