11 Oct WHO: Taxing sugary drinks will reduce obesity
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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28 Sep ‘Hangover-free alcohol’ could replace all regular alcohol by 2050, says UK’s Prof David Nutt
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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06 Sep US: Gatorade goes organic
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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06 Sep US: Coca-Cola makes a move into cold brew coffee
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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23 Aug Nestlé fights to keep coffee crown from keen competitors
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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16 Aug How to best stop hot drink spills
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...
11 Jul Diageo invests in non-alcoholic spirit Seedlip
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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07 Jul France’s Danone to buy WhiteWave Foods
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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28 Jun US: PepsiCo brings back Diet Pepsi with aspartame
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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22 Jun US: Philadelphia passes soda tax
Philly, America's fifth-largest city, is the biggest US city to slap a tax on sweet drinks, after a bitter battle...
08 Jun Keurig’s at-home soda machine was doomed from the start
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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07 Jun US: AB InBev and Starbucks join forces on tea
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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28 May Coca-Cola looks for options way sweeter than sugar
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...
27 May Megabrew: All foam, less beer
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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11 May Donut with your coffee? Germany’s JAB coffee behemoth buys Krispy Kreme
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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27 Apr Coca-Cola agrees to change labels on Vitaminwater drinks
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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27 Apr How an obscure 500-year-old law still controls the global beer industry
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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20 Apr Asahi buys Peroni and Grolsch to smooth creation of ‘Megabrew’
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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19 Apr Coke debuts one-brand packaging
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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24 Mar Why Fairlife could be a billion-dollar frontier for Coca-Cola
Coca Cola's new functional milk, Fairlife, put America's specialty milk category on a rocketing growth trajectory last year. On Fairlife sales of $90m, the category jumped 21 percent in 2015, up from 9 percent in 2014. While there's a long way to go, Coke has...