Following the closure of cold pressed juice company Juice Served Here, co-founder and former CEO Alex Matthews now tasked with the job of evolving the visual identity for Forager Project as the plant-based food and beverage brand’s new chief marketing officer.

In a webinar last week, market research group SPINS shared its 2018 food and beverage trend predictions, which included a rise in new speciality ingredients, an evolution of consumers’ diet preferences and a greater emphasis placed on packaging.

This year's annual event will bring together kombucha brands and manufacturers from around the world to discuss, among other topics, the definition of kombucha as a beverage category.

Earlier today, the CPG giant officially announced the launch of Bubly, an eight-SKU line of fruit-flavored sparkling water in 12 oz. cans that will debut at retail this month.

Meal replacement beverage Soylent continues its push from ecommerce to brick-and-mortar retail by partnering with New York distribution house Big Geyser.

The Townshend Group, the Portland, Ore.-based parent company of Brew Dr. Kombucha, Townshend’s Tea Company and Thomas & Sons Distillery, has sold a minority stake in the company to private equity firm Castanea Partners.

The Santa Monica, Calif.-based beverage incubator announced last week a strategic partnership with coffee maker KonaRed to give the brand the weight in the market it needs to grow in an increasingly-crowded category.

Savor California, an online showcase for gourmet food and beverage brands based in the Golden State, was once again represented at the annual Winter Fancy Food Show, In the following video, we spoke with beverage entrepreneurs affiliated with Savor California about why the state plays an important role for incubating emerging trends and concepts and how the organization supports their brands.

In an interview with BevNET, Wandering Bear co-founder Matt Bachmann declined to identify who led the round, citing an agreement not to publicly disclose the other party.

The specialty channel still aims to serve consumers looking for distinctive and innovative beverage products, but that category has had outsized growth -- which means its role within the channel’s commercial ecosystem is evolving.