Press Clips: Smaller Cans, Bigger Profits
As carbonated soft drink sales continue to decline, the cola giants have benefitted from a self-enacted compromise: smaller cans.
As carbonated soft drink sales continue to decline, the cola giants have benefitted from a self-enacted compromise: smaller cans.
BevNET's one-day educational event for startup food and beverage companies, FBU L.A., will feature more than 20 different speakers and sessions.
Hailing from Montauk, N.Y., a coastal town that belongs to the uber summertime haunt known as The Hamptons, Sweet'tauk Lemonades are sold in farmers' markets and specialty stores in the region. Packaged in clear 14.5 oz. plastic bottles, one might think that the drinks are high pressure processed, but in fact they are not. Nevertheless, we enjoyed the Sweet'tauk's unique formulations, if not its labels and branding.
The increasing popularity of coconut oil can be seen in lifestyle and beauty media, through celebrity use and promotion, and the ongoing consumer trend to find more natural food and beverage options.
The settlement could include millions of individuals who purchased at least one Red Bull can over the past 10 years.
The ways that strategics — large consumer companies that are able to buy and sell other brands — operate have large implications for the entire food and beverage world. So…
Continuing to pour innovation into the fast-growing cold-pressed juice category, Blueprint is launching two new flavors in Whole Foods.
Protein2o co-founder and CEO Bob Kral said that despite his initial optimism, he didn’t expect this level of demand. The raise will help him keep up.
A former employee of GT’s Kombucha has filed a class action complaint against the company, alleging the violation of several labor codes.
Amid rising consumption of almond milk, beverage companies are increasingly using the liquid as a dairy-alternative ingredient, and earlier this year, Bhakti Chai added two almond milk-infused products to its line of micro-brewed chai teas. Aside from the formulations (one of which we had some issues with), the company's bottle is lacking when it comes to visual appeal, and from our perspective, an overhaul is needed.
Protein beverages (Protein2o, Mix1), probiotic offerings (Lifeway Kefir, Clearly Kombucha) and coconut water (Vita Coco, Minoku, Powercoco, Cocozia, Tongo) continue to draw interest from retailers and distributors.
Study Aid is a non-carbonated dietary supplement marketed to students as a way to help promote mental awareness. Given its narrow focus, it’s hard to imagine there being a big consumer base that’s going to give up whatever they're currently consuming (i.e. energy drinks, coffee) for this product.
Vita Coco Sport is the culmination of the brand’s partnership with Target, which was announced in April as part of the mass retailer’s “Made to Matter” program.
Less than two months after Vitaminwater changed its formula by using a blend of cane sugar and stevia, the brand has brought back its original formula.