We're only 30 days away from BevNET Live Summer ’13, which takes place on June 4-5 in New York City at the Metropolitan Pavilion. Space is filling up fast, and if you haven’t already, NOW is the time to register. With hundreds of attendees -- including beverage companies, investors, distributors, retailers and suppliers -- already signed up for the event, BevNET Live is certain to sell out.
The so-called "Kombucha crisis" seems to tell us more about an affinity for alliteration than anything resembling reality; several beverage industry veterans believe that it hasn’t been detrimental at all. In fact, some say that the supposed calamity actually fueled Kombucha’s rapid rise.
Revive has launched two new line extensions to its brand of kombucha drinks. The company, which is based in Sonoma County, Calif., has introduced Revive Kombucha Gold, a blend of kombucha and coffee, and Revive Kombucha Red, which is made with a hibiscus flower kombucha culture. Aside from a few adjustments to its labels, we think Revive has done an outstanding job with the two new varieties.
On the heels of an announcement that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will begin investigating the safety of caffeine as a food additive, Monster Beverage Corp. has filed a lawsuit against San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera over his demands that the company reduces the caffeine content in its energy drinks and stop marketing to minors.
Blue Monkey’s Coconut Coffee Drink is a certified organic blend of coconut cream, sugar, coffee and added emulsifiers/stabilizers. It’s billed as a dairy- and soy-free coffee drink, and it features a somewhat light-bodied coffee flavor. Overall, it’s good, but we honestly feel as though more could be done with this product, starting with cutting the calories and offering more variety in flavors.
The upcoming Manhattan edition of BevNET Live will feature a special edition of Beverage School, BevNET’s introduction to the beverage business. The program, which is free and open to qualified BevNET Live registrants, will be held on Mon., June 3, the day before the opening of BevNET Live, which takes place on June 4 and 5. The limited-seating session will be available -- at no cost -- exclusively to attendees of BevNET Live who are new (or relatively new) to the beverage industry.
As the primary focus on most labels, it’s a given that a logo should be a memorable and recognizable symbol of a brand. However, the process of designing a logo is often a difficult path to navigate; every company wants its brand to stand out, but how does a logo most effectively align with what’s inside the bottle?
BevNET is pleased to announce the launch of the BevNET Magazine app in the iTunes and Google Play stores. As the first in the industry to offer a mobile/tablet app for its print publication, readers will be able to view the magazine in digital format on all Apple and Android devices.
In a hotel across the John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, Calif., about 40 miles south of Los Angeles, Clayton Christopher had dinner with Eric Dopkins to discuss consulting. He didn’t expect to make a hire.
INGO has introduced a new watermelon variety to its brand of cucumber-flavored drinks. For a zero-calorie product, INGO Cucumber-Watermelon has, much like the flagship beverage, an extremely refreshing flavor without the use of any added sweeteners.
With a stated purpose of establishing “a consistent and enforceable standard for labeling of foods produced using genetic engineering," legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate have introduced a new bill that would require mandatory labeling of genetically modified (GMO) foods and ingredients.
Sales of most carbonated soft drinks remain on a downward trend, while bottled water brands posted their worst month in the past year, according to new Nielsen data provided in a report by Wells Fargo Securities.
These days, it seems like there are an endless number of new raw juice brands landing on store shelves with many - if not most - offering an extremely high level of quality in terms of formulation. However, the branding and packaging for some of these products often falls short of matching what's inside the bottle; this is our most significant issue with o2living and its line of raw juice blends.
It's with HPP's evolving role in mind that BevNET is pleased to announce that HPP consultant Joyce Longfield, the CEO of JL Nutrition and Food Regulatory Consulting, will be speaking at BevNET Live in June. At a time when flavor, ingredient, package and function technology are helping to significantly alter the brandscape of the beverage industry, BevNET Live will offer an unprecedented, unvarnished look at one its most eye-catching change agents.
