As a growing number of angel investors in early stage beverage companies comes from within the industry itself, the insight of successful beverage company founders and executives who have gone on to become successful investors became an informative panel discussion at BevNET Live Summer 2012.
Loaded Energy Drink is a Veteran & Native American owned energy drink brand that comes in the standard “original” and sugar free formats. While the brand is cleanly designed and…
Say hello to the hottest new sub-sector of the sparkling category, “ICE”. Why ICE? What does it mean? We don’t know, maybe it’s a regional thing. Actually, it’s a regional…
A look at how the energy drink category continues to grow by expanding its footprint horizontally into other categories, including coffee and sports. The cause of this varietal explosion? Competition,…
G-Shot is a an energy shot whose main points of differentiation are its antioxidant content, goji berries, lack of preservatives, and glass packaging. They’ve definitely succeeded in creating something that…
At BevNET Live Summer 2012, Tom Larsen, a longtime executive at Coca-Cola, and the current VEB brand manager for Illy Issimo, discussed the unit's approach to incubating the iced coffee brand in its attempts to find and develop the next billion-dollar brands for the cola giant.
While there are lots of brands out there promising to donate a portion of profits or sales to charity, People Water is taking a slightly different approach. For each bottle…
The past 30 years have brought untold changes to retail at all levels. At every point in the process, from ordering to logistics to checkout, the incorporation of technology has…
Revive Kombucha is a hand brewed kombucha that is made in Sonoma County, CA and is distributed by Green Shoots. While the kombucha inside is quite enjoyable, it’s bottle, which…
Sweetpress Organic Juices are a product of Sweetgreen, a chain of fast-casual dining restaurants that emphasizes fresh and local ingredients. Their approach to juice is to take raw organic fruit…
After a seven-year run with a private equity group transformed it from a family-owned agricultural concern into one of the country's fastest-growing juice companies, Bolthouse Farms has been sold to Campbell's Soup Co. for just over $1.5 billion.
Campbell’s Soup Co. is offering up between $1.5 and $2 billion for juice maker Bolthouse Farms, Inc., which is currently owned by Madison Dearborn, a Chicago-based private equity group, according to Bloomberg News.
Delivering the keynote address at The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) annual trade show last week in Las Vegas, Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz related how Starbucks endured and eventually mitigated the effects of its recent troubles.
Califia CaliCoco is a product that we’ve previously reviewed, but now the product has an updated and much improved label design. It makes CaliCoco feel like a premium product and…
