BevNET Live attendees will gain valuable insight on the key dimensions of their businesses that potential investors will be digging into as they make their investment decision through a special talk with Brad Barnhorn, a highly-regarded food and beverage company board member, entrepreneur, and investor.
PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi said that her company has 22 billion-dollar brands. She’s working on strengthening brands 15-22.
Introduced at Expo West 2014, Chameleon Cold-Brew's new line of ready-to-drink coffee drinks is an impressive entry to the category. Packaged in 10 oz. glass bottles, the line comes in three varieties — mocha, vanilla, original black -- each made with water, organic & Fair Trade coffee, and in the case of the mocha and vanilla, sugar and flavor. Pairing a simple formulation design with a clean and well-designed label, and overall, we’re big fans of these products.
Attendees of the Beverages 101 session on May 13 at the Metropolitan Pavilion will hear from three investors who are focused on entrepreneurs and their plans for growth.
Praising his “unwavering commitment to high quality products and innovation,” ITO EN North America has promoted Jim Hoagland to Chief Operating Officer, according to a statement. Hoagland has been with ITO EN North America in August, 2003 and most recently held the role of Executive V.P. of Sales & Marketing for the company.
Vertical Water is one of several products that is part of a new and unique class of beverages: maple water. This particular product is made with maple water (sourced from U.S. maple trees) as its sole ingredient, and, thanks to aseptic packaging, doesn't incorporate any preservatives. The result is something that should, at least in theory, be pretty close to what you’d get right out of a tree.
Brominated vegetable oil (BVO) and one of its chief critics are back in the news, with The Coca-Cola Co. announcing that it will remove the beverage emulsifier from its line of Powerade sports drinks, according to the Associated Press (AP).
In a set of presentations that will illuminate the challenges facing entrepreneurial beverage companies as they try to build new categories, BevNET Live will feature emerging CEOs Daniel Sullivan of TumericALIVE and Chris Campbell of Chameleon Cold Brew for in-depth strategy discussions.
In this new series of videos on BevNET FBU, Neil Kimberley, VP of Strategy/Brand Development at Essentia Water, explains the history and origins of LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability), and how the concept has become a key reference point in marketing strategies for natural and organic brands.
Upon its completion later this year, the facility, about 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia and about 110 miles west of New York, will handle approximately 40 percent of the company’s North American volume and will produce more than 30 million cases of Ocean Spray juice per year.
In/Fusion, which markets a line of organic herbal teas, has released two new varieties: “Peach, Verbena, Lemon” uses verbena leaf as its base ingredient, and "Pomegranate, Blackcurrant, and Peppermint" blends blackcurrant leaf and peppermint. While the liquid is great, the name of the varieties and packaging could use some work.
On Wednesday, Las Vegas-based XYIENCE Xenergy, the official energy drink of the UFC, announced that it has reached a new partnership with Davis Beverage Group. The deal will bring XYIENCE to more than 1,500 stores in Central and Eastern Pennsylvania, including Harrisburg, Allentown and Bethlehem, as well as parts of Western New Jersey.
Looming above the borders of the Broadway Triangle, which connects the neighborhoods of Bushwick, Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant, 630 Flushing watchdogs the 31-acre slab of land, illuminating the contrast of its own identity — one of copacetic progress — and the area's troubled past.
Attendees of BevNET Live in Manhattan will have an opportunity to understand the macro-environment affecting the decision-making of one of the buyers for leading supermarket chain Kroger with Mathis Martines, Kroger’s senior category manager for innovation and snacks.
