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California roaster Equator Coffees is rolling its single and multiserve cold brews out to over 1,500 retail stores across the country, going chainwide in Whole Foods and Sprouts with an additional 476 Kroger banner locations on the docket.
Relaxtion drink Trip is making good on its goal for US expansion in 2025, announcing today the release of a new flavor and distribution, as well as a hiring of Abby Redick as SVP of Sales.
Tractor Beverage is expanding its reach in the on-premise through a new multi-year alliance with live entertainment giants AEG that grants Tractor “exclusive rights across key beverage categories” at music venues owned and operated by AEG nationwide.
Specialty Vietnamese coffee brand Nguyen Coffee Supply is heading to the mass market with a launch into 500 Target stores across the country, a move that will grow the brand’s footprint for its RTD robusta bean coffees to over 300% since the start of the year.
Surfside, a fast-growing line of canned iced tea and vodka cocktails, is getting the summer par-tea started with five new SKUs and a distribution expansion putting the brand in over 40 states, the company announced today.
Our latest distribution roundup finds Sunshine Punch and Betty Booze signing on for national distribution with one of the big guys, Play Hard vodka seltzer expanding into a new state and stadium, Gay Water going west and Teremana Tequila going global.
Once Upon A Coconut has expanded its footprint by devoting resources to ramping up retail distribution and strategizing new ways to reach a broader audience on the back of support from new big name investors.
The CPG Week team brings on BevNET spirits editor Ferron Salniker to talk about the rumors circulating around adult non-alcoholic beverage retailer Boisson and the group discusses how far is too far with edgy branding in the beverage industry.
As a fast-rising company in a fast-growing category, Ryl Tea is at an early inflection point in its short lifespan. Speaking about its run thus far, CEO and founder Blodin Ukella emphasized the brand’s attention to efficiency, cash flow and judicious P&L.
BUBBL’R is going nationwide in Target, bringing the Wisconsin-based sparkling water brand to top coastal beverage markets for the first time. Developed and owned by Pepsi-Cola bottler Wis-Pak, BUBBL’R produces a line of functional sparkling waters containing antioxidants, vitamins and 69 mg of caffeine per 12 oz. slim can.
A Gatorade pallet program is at the center of a complaint filed last month in New York State Supreme Court in which two major independent Pepsi bottlers and their subsidiaries accuse the company of undercutting their position after enforcing a switch to DSD last March.
Premium water maker Hawaii Volcanic has inked a distribution deal with top U.S. bottled water manufacturer BlueTriton to service the Hawaii-based brand in retail, home and office accounts through its ReadyRefresh Direct Delivery platform.
In this latest round of distribution news, we check in with new coconut vodka water, Mother's Milk and another fruit-infused vodka cocktail named after the same parent, Mom Water, as well as craft distillers Heritage Distilling and Frey Ranch, plus news from rum Coconut Cartel.
THC-infused beverages are on the march in Texas, as liquor retail chain Spec’s has added Pamos Cannabis Cocktails & Spirits to over 200 locations in the Lone Star State.
Non-alcoholic beverage sales decelerated slightly as volume declines worsened during the two-week period ending February 24, according to the latest analysis of NielsenIQ data by Goldman Sachs Equity Research.
Two brands are taking two different approaches to expansion as they vie to be the "first" hard seltzer brand launched for and by Black people.
The Amazon-owned grocery chain announced today that it will begin opening up new “small-format” stores, called Whole Foods Market Daily Shop, for quick trips in several urban markets, beginning with a Manhattan location this fall.
