09 Mar SodaStream is #1 sparkling water brand in the world
SodaStream International, the global manufacturer and distributor of sparkling water makers, claims it is now the world leader in total volume consumption of sparkling water.
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05 Mar Dump the lumps: new WHO guideline on sugar consumption
There's no keeping sugar out the headlines...
25 Feb Ball agrees to buy Rexam, creating largest can maker
America's Ball Corp has agreed to buy Britain's Rexam for about £4.4-billion ($6.8-billion) in cash and stock to create the world’s biggest maker of food and beverage cans.
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18 Feb Starbucks Britain: A strange loss-making machine
Coffee shops are among the most profitable parts of the food and drink business. And few are doing quite as well as Starbucks, the Seattle-based giant. Last month, the firm's American parent announced that it made 82% more profits during the last quarter of 2014...
09 Feb Who’s driving world wine consumption?
A new industry report has revealed how much wine is being produced each year—and who’s drinking it.
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09 Feb US: Fuze Tea, Gold Peak join Coke’s billion-dollar club
Amid burgeoning demand for iced tea products, Coca-Cola has announced that two of its brands, Gold Peak and Fuze Tea, are the newest additions to its portfolio of billion-dollar drinks.
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05 Feb US: Suja Juice named #2 in Forbes ‘Most Promising Companies’ of 2015
Forbes magazine has named San Diego-based Suja Juice the No 2 "America's Most Promising Company", up from No 3 last year. Suja Juice is the only company in history to move up a place in the top 5 Forbes ranking, the...
04 Feb US: Coca-Cola-backed Fairlife milk launches nationally
Boasting 50 percent more protein, 30 percent more calcium and half the sugar content of traditional milk, Fairlife, an ultra-filtered milk brand distributed by Coca-Cola, is rolling out nationally in the US.
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04 Feb Is Scotch slipping off its high-flying perch?
The Scotch whisky category appears to have hit a tipping point. What does the future look like for the until-recently booming category?
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21 Jan Soylent: A joke no more as it gets millions in venture cap investment
It surely started as a one-man experiment, and evolved into something of a social media joke - but Soylent, the Los Angeles start-up that makes a powdery meal replacement with a sweeping nutritional composition, has just raised $20-million in additional venture capital, the company announced...
21 Jan Does orange juice have to genetically modify or die?
Citrus greening, a bacterial disease that’s ravaging orchards, has brought the US OJ industry to a crossroads.
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05 Jan Passion for vodka kills Russian men in their thousands
A quarter of all Russian men die before they reach their mid-fifties and their passion for alcohol - particularly vodka - is largely to blame, according to new research published last week.
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26 Nov Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism
A new book looking at the success - and cost - behind the Coca-Cola name has been published. Author Bartow Elmore, an historian at the University of Alabama, takes a fresh look at how soda companies managed to make fortunes selling cheap sugar water.
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26 Nov US: Coca-Cola bets the farm on “premium milk”
Could premium milk be the greatest coup for beverage companies since bottled water? Coca-Cola apparently thinks so.
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28 Oct US: PepsiCo confirms it’s on trial with SodaStream
PepsiCo is finally wading into the market of at-home prepared beverages. The cola giant is set to begin a limited test of its soda brands for use in SodaStream's carbonation machines, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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24 Oct US: Soda giants pledge to cut calories
America's beverage behemoths have agreed to ask people to drink fewer sugary soft drinks. At the recent Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Dr Pepper Snapple Group announced a shared goal to reduce the number of beverage calories consumed per person...
16 Oct The Steve Jobs of beer
Ambition made Jim Koch, the head of Sam Adams, the US's biggest craft beer, a billionaire. It also opened America to a craft-beer renaissance, and like Steve Jobs did with Apple, has made a very successful business out of satisfying a demand people didn’t...
07 Oct The cola wars continue: Coke Life vs Pepsi True
In the latest stage of the ongoing cola wars, the kings of carbonated beverages are going green—on the outside—and lean, on the inside. In the US, PepsiCo has just introduced a new mid-calorie variety called Pepsi True that uses a combination of stevia and sugar...
07 Oct SABMiller executives set out long-term vision for superior growth
At an investor seminar in London yesterday, top directors of SABMIller outlined outlined the company's long term strategy for growth, including plans to expand beer's appeal in mature markets and to build a position outside its traditional role as the favourite drink for men in...
01 Oct Tetra Pak Dairy Index 2014 indicates rising demand and production for milk in Africa
The latest Dairy Index from Tetra Pak has found that total global demand for milk is set to overtake the available supply for the first time over the next decade. Milk supply is expected to lag demand by 2017 predominantly due to growth from Asia...