07 Jul SodaStream’s sparkling water offensive brings healthy payola

SodaStream International, which makes machines to carbonate tap water at home, is looking to acquire companies and beef up marketing in key countries to keep its turnaround going.

24 Jun RIP Coke Zero? New drink Coca-Cola No Sugar launching in Australia

Coca-Cola is getting rid of Coke Zero, starting in Australia - or so the launch of a new sugar-free variant would indicate.

24 Jun Diageo buys George Clooney tequila brand for $1bn

George Clooney may be the face of fancy coffee, but it’s in premium tequila that he's just hit the real jackpot.

23 Jun Fanta’s clever new asymmetric bottle a world-first

Fanta is the UK’s favourite fruit-flavoured sparkling soft drink. And this year, the brand has been transformed – with a new look and logo and an industry-first bottle design across the whole Fanta range. Plus a new reduced-sugar recipe for Fanta Orange.

10 Apr Coca Cola Life scrapped in the UK as sales go flat

Low-sugar, stevia-sweetened Coca Cola Life is to be phased out in Britain in June after its sales  have nosedived.

30 Mar AB InBev to go 100% renewable by 2025

Anheuser-Busch InBev has said it will source 100% of its energy from renewable sources by 2025, an announcement that comes as US president Donald Trump is working to dismantle Barack Obama's environmental legislation.

29 Mar The world’s most valuable beer and spirits brands

12 Mar Soda loses its US crown: Americans now drink more bottled water

Americans now officially drink more bottled water than soda. It’s a shift that decades ago might have seemed unthinkable—that consumers would buy a packaged version of something they could get free from a tap.

03 Mar Nestlé to end iced tea venture with Coca-Cola and go it alone

Nestlé will end its 50-50 tea venture with Coca-Cola – Beverage Partners Worldwide (BPW) – and concentrate on growing brands like Nestea on its own.

27 Feb Coffee wars heat up – JDE vs Nestlé

Emerging markets are keeping JDE from challenging Nestlé for global coffee supremacy - Euromonitor’s beverage analyst, Matthew Barry, shares insights on the struggle for supremacy between global coffee giants.

18 Feb Russia is losing its taste for beer: top breweries suffer

Heineken is the latest to put a figure on the pain. This week it reported that the amount of beer it sold in Russia declined by double digits in 2016.

12 Jan Top beverage bosses to bid farewell in 2017

The CEOs of two iconic global beverage companies are stepping down this year: both Starbucks and Coca-Cola will be bidding their bosses farewell but not good-bye.

10 Jan PepsiCo to launch premium water brand LIFEWTR

This year PepsiCo will launch a premium-priced bottled water called LIFEWTR, adding a new brand to the company's portfolio that plays to strengthening consumer interest in healthier beverages.

09 Jan AB InBev and Keurig teaming up to build an at-home alcohol beverage maker

Brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev and coffee purveyor Keurig Green Mountain have formed a joint venture to develop an in-home system that would focus on beer, cocktails and other alcoholic beverages.

23 Nov Soylent says this novel ingredient caused all those “gastrointestinal issues”

Soylent is Silicon Valley's bluntest and blandest attempt to "disrupt the food industry", on the premise that "food really is made of chemicals; it is reducible, we can build it back up; we can change it, and we can make it better". It...

23 Nov PepsiCo, Dr Pepper Snapple continue to diversify beyond soda

Two fast-track, better-for-you beverage upstarts in America did well this week. Bai and KeVita are, respectively, to be fully acquired by benefactors, Dr Pepple Snapper and PepsiCo.

21 Nov Coca-Cola redefining innovation

The definition of innovation is often synonymous with such words as revolution, transformation and breakthrough. At the Coca-Cola. the definition has less to do with such descriptors and more to do with meeting the needs of consumers, says its North America chief.

14 Nov US voters overwhelmingly pass soda tax in these major cities

Bad news for the US soda industry...

13 Nov Winners of the World Beverage Innovation Awards 2016

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