Nestlé is facing a lawsuit in the US alleging that its Poland Spring brand is “common groundwater” rather than spring water.
Coca-Cola is calling on the public via the crowdsourcing platform HeroX to develop a natural, low-to-no-calorie sweetener, but the compound must not contain, or be derived from, stevia or monk fruit.
As has been anticipated for some time, Coca-Cola in the US has announced that it would stop selling Coke Zero in the US in August, replacing it with a beverage with a different recipe, design, and name: Coca-Cola Zero Sugar.
Leading Australian supermarket, Woolworths, has made the shock announcement that it won’t be stocking Coca-Cola’s new No Sugar variant.
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.
Coca-Cola is getting rid of Coke Zero, starting in Australia - or so the launch of a new sugar-free variant would indicate.
George Clooney may be the face of fancy coffee, but it’s in premium tequila that he's just hit the real jackpot.
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.
This past week, Bloomberg reporters made a not-so-startling discovery about the much-hyped, internet-connected Juicero juicer: It’s even more unnecessary than previously thought.
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Low-sugar, stevia-sweetened Coca Cola Life is to be phased out in Britain in June after its sales have nosedived.
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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.
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Johnnie Walker is the world’s most valuable whisky brand, while Bud Light tops the charts in beer. But 2017 is the year of China's baijiu brands, says Brand Finance, with the drink now accounting for a greater share of brand value than...
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...