BevNET TV: A First Look at Aloe Gloe
At the recently held Natural Products Expo East show in Baltimore, BevNET caught up with Danny Stepper and Pat Bolden of L.A. Libations to discuss their recent foray into the…
Review: Grand Ma Ma’s Sweet Tea
Grand Ma Ma’s Sweet Southern Tea is named for former NBA Allstar Larry Johnson, who gained the nickname from a Converse commercial in the 1990’s. Why this is being put…
BevNET Live Winter 11: Early Registration Expires Today
BevNET Live Winter 11, which will be held on December 5 and 6 at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel in Santa Monica, CA, is only 65 days away. And…
Review: Naked Mango Peach Coconut Water
Naked Juice’s Coconut Water recently expanded into flavored offerings and today we’re taking a look at their Mango Peach variety. What’s really interesting about this product is its use of…
Fair Trade on the Rise
Fair Trade USA is gearing up for October – dubbed “Fair Trade Month 2011” – following news that SPINS reports revealed a significant increase in sales and a strong foundation…
Hansen’s Beverages Goes Half-and-Halfway
Under VP of Marketing Blair Owens, Hansen’s Beverages, the natural beverages company that is better known as the owners of Monster Energy, has slowly begun to extend its portfolio into…
Review: Fentiman’s Cherry Tree Cola
Like all of Fentiman’s products, Cherry Tree Cola is a premium carbonated soft drink that uses fermented ingredients (in this case, fermented ginger root extract) to create an enjoyable and…
Download BevNET’s 2011 NACS Show Planner
The National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) annual show is less than a week away in Chicago, IL. The largest event for the convenience and petroleum retailing industry, NACS is…
The Fight For Florida
The Sunshine State matters a lot – and that can drive beverage companies crazy. As one of the nations’s electoral swing states as well as the site of no fewer…
BevNET TV: A Recap of Expo East 2011
With more than 100 beverage-related exhibitors and over 20,000 attendees, Natural Products Expo East returned to Baltimore after a three year stint in Boston. While Expo East lacked the thunderous atmosphere that Expo West enjoyed earlier this year, the show did feature a number of new and innovative beverage companies introducing products in growth categories like tea, coconut water and aloe juice, as well as several rebrands and repackaging efforts - most notably by Honest Tea.
O.N.E. Rebrands Active, adds Supply from Philippines
It wasn’t an easy summer for O.N.E. Expectations that the brand would be entering the Pepsi distribution system on a national level – and that the product itself would be…
Juice: Halfway Home; Stevia Blends Start to Fit In
It seemed like a perfect fit: an all-natural zero-calorie sweetener, the first of its kind, cutting into the sugar and calories of juices without losing any of the sweetness. Even…
The New Distribution Landscape, Part 2
In Part 1, I made the perhaps counterintuitive case that distribution options for fledgling non-alcoholic beverage brands actually may be on the rise, even in a broader landscape where wholesale…
L.A. Libations Goes for Mainstream with Aloe Gloe
They’ve spent the past few years helping brands like ZICO, Neuro, and CasCal land key retailers, but now beverage incubator L.A. Libations is hoping that its brand-building know-how will help…