Coast Brands Starts Incubation Program
There’s a new small-brand incubator in town, but it’s attached to a much larger brand engine: Coast Brands Group. Coast, which went into business last year as a way to…
Review: Monster Rehab Tea + Lemonade + Energy
We get a lot of energy drinks at our office every week, but most fit into the same tired bucket of being “classic” flavor energy drinks that have done little…
Review: Strip Off Stress
Here at BevNET, we’re literally getting a handful of new relaxation drinks/shots every week. One of the more recent ones that we’ve received is Strip Off Stress (or SOS —…
Cargill Feels Way to Better Taste
The food giant Cargill says it has sweetened the diet soda dilemma by introducing a new approach to formulating better-tasting diet beverages, a system called TasteWise. The product of seven…
2011 Nightclub & Bar Show Recap
The 2011 Nightclub & Bar Convention and Trade Show took place at the Las Vegas Convention Center on March 8th and 9th. Attendees were club, bar and restaurant owners and…
Coke Now Second Only to Itself
In a remarkable swap, Diet Coke will leave Pepsi Cola in the dust: its sales are expected to fall more slowly than those of regular Pepsi-Cola, which would leave Diet…
Video (+ Photo Gallery): Expo West Product Recap
The new product season got off to a blazing start at Natural Products Expo West. Whether they were real introductions, re-introductions of products from earlier in the year, or soon-to-come…
Are Eco-Bottles the Next Big Beverage Battle? AP Thinks So
March has already brought a great deal of activity in packaging innovation, from the incorporation of 100 percent recycled PET to the use of plant polymers in some bottles. Most…
BevNET Live Summer 11: Early Registration Deadline Approaching…
On June 6 & 7, BevNET Live returns to NYC for our Summer 2011 program. In what is shaping up to be our biggest event yet, BevNET Live will deliver…
Review: Sambazon Protein Açaí
Sambazon’s Protein Açaí is a unique line of USDA Organic protein drinks. Not only does it deliver about 10g of vegan protein per bottle (from soy and hemp), but it…
Video: Trends at Expo West 2011
With more than 130 beverage companies buying booth space, and a few dozen more tramping the aisles, Natural Products Expo West provided a near-comprehensive look at the way entrepreneurial beverage…
Review: Jamba Juice Daily Superfruit Shot
Produced by Zola for Jamba Juice, the Daily Superfruit Shot line will be sold in Jamba Juice outlets as a take home product. The product is packaged in a unique…
Ingredients Flow Fruitfully at engredea
Best known as a trade show for all-natural consumer products, Natural Products Expo West (which ended last weekend) also dedicates a section of its floor-space to those business-to-business supplier companies…
Evolution Under Pressure at Expo West — And that’s a Good Thing
It’s been one of the hardest questions for high-end juice brands to answer: sure, your juice is the freshest. But how do you keep it that way? The answer, in…