Amazon disrupted traditional retail -- but while it’s shaking up store formats, it’s also hoping to help beverage brands grow their sales. Kyle Walker, Amazon’s Head of New Business Strategy, joins the BevNET Live Summer 2019 speaker lineup to break down how the company plans to accomplish that goal.
The hydration-focused powdered sports drink mix category has been experiencing a renaissance as independent brands offer consumers clean label credentials with clinical testing to back efficacy claims, while also delivering fun, lifestyle brand identities to bring in new consumers and celebrity influencers.
Describing itself as “kind of like tea” and “kind of like sparkling water,” Minna is an unsweetened, zero-calorie, and USDA Organic certified line of carbonated beverages that is positioned as an alternative to flavored sparkling water.
Named for Dr. Joseph Priestley, an 18th century renaissance man who is recognized as the first documented inventor of soda water in 1767, the New York-based beverage company, which launched last month on Amazon, markets a line of premium sparkling waters with cocktail-inspired flavor profiles.
In this update or recent news around taxes on sugar sweetened drinks, legislative efforts in California to introduce a two cents per fluid ounce tax on sodas and sugar-sweetened drinks have been put on hold until next year, while the American Beverage Association targets Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney with a new round of negative ads.
Mike Cornwell is the CMO of Phivida, a company that launched its first foray into the ready-to-drink beverage space with OKI, a line of hemp CBD-infused teas and flavored waters. The brand is focused on using the highest quality ingredients and testing to ensure potency and purity.
As legacy brands evolve and new ones emerge, consumers’ understanding of alkalinity as both a functional component and a connotation of premium quality in water is changing as well.
The rapid rise of Oatly in the plant-milk category and the widely publicized out-of-stock issues that followed it present an uncommon problem for young brands: What happens when you become too popular?
As part of a wide-ranging interview, John Bello discussed the creation and development of SoBe, the lifestyle brand that he co-founded and sold to PepsiCo for nearly $400 million. Bello explained how an era of “healthy hedonism” turned SoBe into a top-seller and why he now describes the products as “sugar water.” He also chronicled his career as a beverage executive and entrepreneur and spoke about his current role as the chairman of ginger-centric soda brand Reed’s.
The Coca-Cola Company enjoyed a solid start to 2019, surpassing analysts’ projections in reporting 6% growth in Q1 organic sales.
Austin Allan has been named director of marketing at produce company Ark Foods, just three months after joining Dirty Lemon parent company Iris Nova as senior director of special projects.
Billed as the next step in the company’s efforts to reduce its PET bottle footprint, PepsiCo today announced the launch of a new internet-connected water cooler system which will debut in June in select workplaces, universities, and hospitality partners.
Canadian cannabis company Canopy is positioning itself to be a prime mover in the U.S. legal marijuana market, last week announcing an agreement to acquire Acreage Holdings in a deal valued at $3.4 billion.
Meal replacement brand Soylent is now available in all 4,378 U.S. Walmart locations in five SKUs, including four-bottle multipacks; New Age Beverages partners with Hudson News Distributors; Bimble makes CBD play in Northeast region; ICONIC Protein goes nationwide with Whole Foods, adds 800 Target stores.
