While Coca-Cola has long backed and promoted fitness and exercise, news that the world's largest producer of sugary beverages is funding a new scientific nonprofit organisation that blames obesity on lack of exercise, not on bad diets has generated a storm of coverage and criticism.
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Diet Pepsi made without aspartame to hit shelves across the US Monday, marking the biggest change to the beverage in three decades.
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The world may be getting warmer, but it is not getting much wetter. It quaffed 249-billion litres of alcoholic drinks in 2014, a modest increase of one billion over the preceding year. The Economist takes a look at the changing geography of alcoholic drinks.
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Leading British supermarket retailer, Tesco, has announced that it is to remove all lunch box-sized drinks that contain added sugar from its shelves from September. The decision has sparked fury among consumers, but it could mark the start of far reaching industry-wide changes.
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Britain's doctors are calling for the government to impose a 20% tax on sugar-sweetened drinks to pay for subsidies on fruit and vegetables in an effort to slow the obesity epidemic.
...Consumers worldwide remain overwhelmingly positive about the goodness of milk, understand its nutritional value, but feel variety and convenience are not keeping pace with modern lifestyles and expectations, is a key finding of Tetra Pak's eighth Dairy Index report published June 17.
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Millennials are steering away from soda, and PepsiCo is investing in healthier options to keep up with them. PepsiCo recently announced a new line of carbonated craft beverages called "Stubborn Soda."
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Watch out the CSD industry! The indomitable Prof MarionNestle, founder of the food studies program at New York University, major public health and food choice advocate and author of Food Politics, is coming after you with a newbook, Soda Politics, to be launched in September.
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Africa is the final frontier for beer, according to Euromonitor International's new global briefing, Africa: The Final Frontier for Beer. It is a relatively untapped territory, despite the noteworthy presence of SABMiller and Heineken in key African markets and in upcoming dynamic ones.
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SABMiller is buying Britain’s Meantime Brewing Company, snapping up one of the pioneers of UK craft brewing to give the owner of big brands such as Peroni and Grolsh exposure to this fast-growing market. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
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PepsiCo is changing the formula of one of its offerings for the first time in decades, removing aspartame from its Diet Pepsi drinks in the US amid consumer concerns about its safety.
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In the "DIY" soda arena, the focus has been on SodaStream and the development of Keurig Kold by Keurig Green Mountain and its tie-up with Coca-Cola. Moving along, too, is another option, the launch in Canada of Bonne O that works without a CO2 cartridge.
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SABMiller is reportedly looking for a creative agency to launch a new global beer brand but the multinational is remaining tight-lipped.
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Innocent Smoothies, the high-profile British 'healthy' drinks business now owned by Coca-Cola, has launched a new flavoured sparkling water in an attempt to secure further market share in the competitive drinks sector.
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Europeans have Nespresso, Americans have Keurig, accompanied by its ubiquitous K-Cups and produced by Keurig Green Mountain, which grew out of the company that was founded on one John Sylvan’s invention in 1990. Sylvan has recently expressed regret over ever devising the system...
For the world’s largest beverage company, the question is no longer whether or not it needs to reinvent itself to thrive but whether or not it can, and if it can, then how?
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Pepsi has reclaimed its positioning as the No 2 soda in the United States, five years after losing that spot to Diet Coke.
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Nutritional labelling on alcoholic drinks could become the norm after four of the world's biggest brewers backed plans to add these to their products in Europe — and the US potentially is their next stop. It's already happening in SA (pictured right on SAB's Castle...
There's been much media coverage given the recent US government approval of "powdered alcohol" drinks – Palcohol – as it is branded. If you paid attention in chemistry class, you might feel something sounds scientifically and chemically amiss.
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Officials in the US have sparked controversy by approving a powdered alcohol that can be mixed into drinks, snorted or even sprinkled onto food.
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