A Mother Jones report that focused on a California-based source for Starbucks’ Ethos bottled water brand, which, situated in an area faced with “exceptional drought,” according to the news service, has ignited a flurry of criticism of the coffee giant in recent days.
BevNET Live Summer ’15 attendees will not only gain extremely valuable insight on a rapidly evolving landscape for beverages, they'll be able to meet with industry-leading sponsors, suppliers and vendors who can support their endeavors.
Runa has extended its bottled line of guayusa products with Half & Half and Sweet Peach varieties. In addition to the new beverages, Runa has introduced a few tweaks of its label.
Mo-Tea is a product that is brewed with organic moringa leaves, which are said to have variety of health benefits. From a taste perspective, the product, which is also made with blue agave, lime and spices, has a flavor that tastes similar to a lemon-flavored black tea.
As Whole Foods continues to introduce new shelf space for high pressure processed (HPP) juice products, it’s clear that the retailer is also adding room for similarly processed and premium positioned beverages in a range of other categories.
During his presentation, Sinclair will explore brands that have been able to successfully grow on a massive scale -- the Walmart Scale -- while also enumerating the operational and strategic hurdles they will face as they attempt that kind of expansion.
Koa’s Natural Olakino has taken a slightly different approach to its messaging than when it launched. Originally branded as “Koa Organic Water,” the core of the product is still 100 percent juice, including pomegranate, bamboo, mint, lime, amla fruit, annatto, guava, holy basil, red sea lettuce, lemongrass, carrots and lemon. In a nutshell, the company has processed and clarified the ingredients to create a product that looks like a bottle of water.
Incorporating in-depth analysis of recent beverage industry and growth trend data, as well as interviews with key players at all stages of success in the beverage business, Ms. Fry’s talk will break down the way attributes like brand, product, sourcing, manufacturing, sales, marketing, distribution and finance interact as entrepreneurial beverage companies grow.
In its recently released “The Why Behind the Buy” report, Acosta Sales and Marketing examines what drives consumers when they shop.
As far as the cold brew category is concerned, adding nitrogen, which has been done by a variety of coffee retailers (including Stumptown) for on-premise sales, is a twist that really sets this product apart from the other packaged products in the category.
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“You know, I’ve never thought about that question before.” That’s what I’ve been hearing almost exclusively lately when I ask whether there’s anything alarming about the lack of racial and ethnic diversity that I found remarkably easy to observe at Natural Products Expo West.
A new national presence at Wendy’s, one of the country’s largest fast food chains, hits on two areas of focus for the organic tea brand: rapid growth of its foodservice business and the continuation of a company goal to “democratize organics” by making such products available to as many Americans as possible.
Presented as "Super Fruit Handcrafted Juice," Pura Fruta is a line of single ingredient juices that are cold-pressed and high pressure processed. Packaged in 12 oz. bottles, we think the brand has done well to position itself as a differentiated product in a rapidly expanding category.
