Coca-Cola is to buy the Costa Coffee chain from UK leisure group Whitbread, in a £3.9bn ($5,1bn) deal that sets up the world’s biggest beverage maker to take on Starbucks, Nestlé and JAB Holdings in the global battle for coffee sales.
PepsiCo is branching out into new territory with the $3.2bn purchase of SodaStream, the Israeli maker of home fizzy drink dispensers, just weeks after the US consumer group announced that its chief executive, Indra Nooyi, would step down this year.
Tesco has become the first Big 4 UK supermarkets to offer customers water in aluminium cans in a bid to provide an environmentally-friendly alternative to plastic water bottles.
PepsiCo has announced that respected CEO, Indra Nooyi, will step down after 12 years leading the food and beverage company. She will remain chairman until early 2019.
Do sugar taxes work? Will Coca-Cola go alcoholic? And is it safe to drink when you can clean toilets with it? In conversation with CEO James Quincey...
The US Food & Drug Administration will soon begin enforcing regulations that define "milk" as an animal product, not a plant-based food, according to comments FDA Commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb made at a summit in Washington, DC, last week.
And the companies are inviting all of their competitors in the industry to join in....
The past few weeks in the UK and Europe have brought a steady stream of ominous food headlines: Beer is being rationed! (In the middle of the World Cup, no less!) Barbecues might run out of meat! Bakeries have stopped making crumpets! Sorry, no ice cream!
Replica Wine makes cheaper copies of favourite American wines by analysing their chemistry. Often, even professional critics can't tell the difference. Is this heresy or just smart business?
As the dust settles on the International Flavours & Fragrances (IFF) and Frutarom $7.1bn deal, all eyes are on the flavours and fragrances industry as the takeover is expected to shake up the sector when the company goes up against current market leader Givaudan.
Swiss-based food giant Nestlé will pay Starbucks $7.15-billion in cash for the rights to sell the US coffee chain's products around the world in a global alliance aimed at reinvigorating their coffee empires.
Ireland has introduced its tax on sugar-sweetened drinks this week, with legislation coming into effect on May 1.
A self-described “entrepreneurial junkie”, Lance Collins — despite remarkable success in the US beverage business — is itching for his next fix.
The UK is set to ban the sale of plastic straws and drinks stirrers that blight the country’s seas and rivers, government ministers have announced.
All drinks containers in England, whether plastic, glass or metal, will be covered by a deposit return scheme, the UK government has announced.
Plastic waste and litter in the world's oceans is a major problem, and it's an issue that's moving up the environmental and public agendas. But how big is the problem and its effects really? The science is out....
Over the past year or so, Coca-Cola South Pacific has been rolling out an interesting sensory range of Fanta variants in Asian and Antipodean markets that are as much about touch, sound, sight, and smell as they are about taste.
Plagued by changing consumer preferences and growing foreign competition, US cranberry growers are betting their bogs ... on urinary tract infections.
Coca-Cola is planning its first entry into the popular "alcopop" market in Japan with a low-alcohol canned beverage known as "chu-hai".
In a world where disruptive consumer products are the norm, beverage companies are still struggling to innovate beyond ingredients and flavour. How to break through? PepsiCo has aimed to do this with a concept successfully trialed in Brazil, now launched in the US.