Retailers who are in the know can add a strong variety of functional products into a tiny footprint. The key to the powder package isn’t just that it’s portable, but…

A recent report on food and beverage trends found that as Americans have grown more sophisticated in their eating habits, culinary innovators have sought to utilize increasingly intense flavors to…

After getting my newsletter out in New York the other day, I rewarded myself with a bike ride to the Upper East Side in quest of a coffee or a beer. Turned out it was going to be coffee – or maybe hot chocolate – that day, once I spied a nicely designed corner place with the odd name Little Brown Chocolate Bakery & Coffee. It had recently opened and, wouldn’t you know it, the owner was perched on a stool, observing his customers’ grazing habits, monitoring activity at the Starbucks across the street, bantering with anyone who wanted a moment of his time. The bald head, alert, friendly eyes and thick earring certainly made him look familiar.

Between the bean, the caffeine, and the flavor, it’s hard to imagine a plant that has been more commonly utilized in the beverage industry than the coffee plant. Yet a…

We would venture to say that there are many, many channels unrepresented when looking at these numbers, especially given the availability of these powders in accounts like airports, amazon, Wal-Mart,…