PepsiCo has set a target for reducing the amount of sugar in its soft drinks around the world as part of a suite of goals aimed at tackling problems ranging from obesity to climate change.
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A report published by WHO urges governments around the world to tax sugary drinks by 20% in order to curb obesity.
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New types of synthetic alcohol are being developed that could allow people to enjoy the sociable effects of a few pints, but skip the toxic, hangover ones.
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Gatorade, the brightly coloured sports drink marketed by professional sports figures in advertising targeted at amateur athletes, is introducing an organic version.
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Coca-Cola is launching its first cold brew coffee product and tea lattes under its billion-dollar RTD tea brand Gold Peak.
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Nestlé is giving its instant coffee brand Nescafe and its Nespresso single-serve coffee a shot in the arm as fast-growing rivals with lean cost structures chip away at its global dominance.
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Coffee’s propensity to spill has long puzzled physicists, for whom caffeine is generally as important to their science as equations. Now a study has found the most practical way to prevent coffee spills...
Distill Ventures, the Diageo-backed and funded accelerator programme for entrepreneurs launching and scaling innovative drinks brands, has invested in a brand of non-alcoholic distilled spirits for the first time.
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Danone has agreed to buy organic foods producer WhiteWave Foods, producer of organic and plant-based milks, for about $10-billion, boosting the world's largest yogurt maker's presence in the US.
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PepsiCo spent two years surveying consumers, conducting taste tests, and tinkering with soft drink recipes in order to fix Diet Pepsi, only to find it had completely misread what its customers wanted.
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Philly, America's fifth-largest city, is the biggest US city to slap a tax on sweet drinks, after a bitter battle...
Keurig is axing its at-home soda machine, Keurig Kold, just nine months after its debut. The company was hoping that the $370 machine would give it a new avenue for growth beyond coffee. But it has failed miserably.
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Starbucks is partnering with a beer giant to enter a $1 billion business — but it's not for coffee or beer. Rather America's biggest beer and coffee makers are coming together over tea.
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Now is not a great time to be in the sugar business. On the health front, Philadelphia is joining the list of cities that want to tax people on sugar-sweetened drinks, and the FDA just approved a new nutrition label that would place...
It is screamingly apparent that AB InBev’s attraction for SABMiller lay in its emerging market operations in Latin America and Africa, asserts the Financial Mail.
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Krispy Kreme Doughnuts has been sold to the Reimann family, one of Europe’s wealthiest and most secretive business dynasties, for $1.35bn.
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After a six-year legal wrangle, a US federal court in New York recently approved a nationwide settlement over how Coca-Cola's Vitaminwater line of drinks could be marketed and advertised.
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Humans have brewed beer since the birth of civilisation. But one group – the Germans – managed to change the trajectory of the world’s brewing landscape forever by enacting Reinheitsgebot, a purity law that celebrated its 500th anniversary on April 23.
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Japanese brewer Asahi is to pay US drinks giant AB InBev £2bn for the Peroni, Grolsch and Meantime brands in a deal designed to soothe competition concerns around the “Megabrew” takeover of SABMiller.
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Coke’s new “One-Brand” marketing strategy is officially making its way to store shelves and beverage coolers, starting in Mexico but expanding across the globe, with new-look packaging.
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