Following recent distribution agreements with Polar and De Crescente, Karma Wellness Water has gained an even larger foothold in the Northeast as the company announced new ties with several distributors in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Karma, a cap-activated enhanced water, is also now authorized for sale in a number of retailers in the New England region including Roche Brothers and Market Basket.
After a year in which Diet Coke surged past Pepsi as the third bestselling soft drink in the U.S., PepsiCo will dramatically increase the size of its marketing budget in 2012 and lay off more than 1,000 employees – included some at its Purchase, N.Y. headquarters - to partially offset the costs, according to The New York Post. While PepsiCo declined to comment on the matter, The Post cited three sources who confirmed the details of the plan.
The deadline to create your listing for the 2012 BevNET Supplier and Services Guide is Dec. 21, 2011. BevNET’s Supplier and Services Guide is an annual resource to the 1,000+…
Since new management took over at Jones Soda in Spring of 2010, there have been many changes to the product lineup. Their approach to holiday sodas is no exception, with…
Expecting an eventual ease in the cost of commodities, Dr Pepper Snapple will increase prices modestly in 2012, according to the Wall Street Journal. Dr Pepper President and CEO Larry Young anticipates that the company will raise prices by 1.5 to 2 percent next year and believes that the rising swell in the cost of commodities will subside.
As with most growing categories, kombucha is a place where new products are constantly coming to market. Celestial Seasonings second entry into the kombucha category (their first was a bit…
Made, which is a line of all-natural and organic beverages, has recently added a new flavor: Lemonade. Following in the footsteps of their other flavors, this variety has a very…
Monster Energy sees itself as a lifestyle company. Red Bull is a media empire. As for high-end CSD Izze, Co-founder Todd Woloson said that he saw it as something like an onion. Those ideas about branding – and many other off-beat ideas that are necessary to distinguish beverage companies in highly competitive times – came alive during the BevNET Live Winter event that concluded on Tuesday in Santa Monica.
Though carbonated soft drinks face weakened demand and declining sales as a result of higher prices, sales of energy drinks and ready-to-drink teas remain on a hot pace, according to a recent report from Morgan Stanley. Utilizing Nielsen scanner data results, the investment bank detailed a year-over-year comparison in which category sales of energy drinks and RTD teas leapt by 12.5 and 4.5 percent, respectively, while sales of CSDs declined by 0.8 percent over a four-week period ending on November 26.
In a court settlement that may have wide-ranging implications for the beverage industry, the FDA agreed yesterday to decide whether to ban BPA, a controversial plastic and resin ingredient commonly used to line plastic bottles and metal cans. The settlement resolves a lawsuit filed against the agency by the Natural Resources Defense Council, and requires the FDA to make a final decision on BPA by March 31, 2012.
Cottonmouth’s formulation is one of the more unique that we’ve seen as of late, with ingredients that include ginseng, astragalus, cordyceps mushroom, momordica fruit, chrysanthemum flower, ginkgo, schizandra berry, asparagus…
With a 16 ounce PET bottle and a formulation that features a blend of coconut water and fruit flavors, Tongo Coconut Water is a product that is probably best described…
The Presentation of New Beverage Showdown Winner! And the winner is… Coco Café!!…
This year’s field for BevNET’s ninth annual “Best of” awards was quite strong, with many of the best efforts coming in the second half of the year. The awards served…
