A surprise tax on sugary soft drinks to tackle childhood obesity, unveiled in Chancellor George Osborne’s 2016 budget, has dismayed manufacturers but delighted campaigners, including celebrity chef Jamie Oliver (left), who was exuberant outside the House of Commons after its announcement.
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Coca-Cola continues to be more aggressive than its nemesis PepsiCo in chasing the red-hot, low-calorie sparkling water business.
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Monster Beverage has agreed to purchase its primary flavour ingredients supplier, American Fruits & Flavors, for $690-million.
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Japanese brewer Asahi has agreed to buy SABMiller’s Peroni and Grolsch beer brands for over 400bn yen (€2.55bn - £2.3bn), a sale aimed at easing antitrust approval for AB InBev’s $100bn-plus takeover of SABMiller, agreed last year.
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Every year, Fast Company, the trend-setting/following magazine and website, publishes an annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. There is one interesting beverage-related company on the 2016 role of honour.
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Mexicans consume more carbonated drinks per person than any other nation, and the country has one of the world's highest rates of childhood obesity. Two years ago the government introduced a tax on sugary drinks - but is it working?
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Keurig Green Mountain, which manufactures coffee makers and instant flavour pods, aka 'The Nespresso of the US', has agreed to be purchased for $13.9 billion by an investment group led by German private-equity firm JAB Holding Co. The purchase is being seen as part of JAB's strategy...
Around the world, governments and beverage makers are locked in battle over taxes on sugary drinks. The Economist investigates...
Sugary drinks are deemed public enemy number one when it comes to fighting health and weight issues. Diet drinks haven’t fared much better as they’ve also courted some health controversies. But a new product proposes a unique solution: What if you could drink plain water,...
Coca-Cola’s top scientist is stepping down after revelations that the beverage giant initiated a strategy of funding scientific research that played down the role of Coke products in the spread of obesity.
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Guinness, the Irish stout that once famously advertised itself under the slogan “Guinness is good for you,” took a step this week to inject 21st-century food culture into its 256-year-old product. Guinness is going vegan.
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A monster merger is just one step...
The battle lasted one tumultuous month. In September SABMiller, the world’s second-largest brewer, said it was the target of a takeover by its bigger rival, AB InBev. There followed a volley of bids, skirmishes in the press and tense private talks...
Camille Delebecque is founder and CEO of Afineur, a Franco-American startup, who raised more than $50,000 on Kickstarter to produce a coffee with a unique flavour created through controlled fermentation; in effect, to produce Indonesia's famed civet-poop coffee, kopi luwak, without the civet and all the...
Unilever has launched a single-serve Lipton tea machine to help reinvigorate the struggling brand and challenge Nestlé, which has already spent five years pushing a similar Nespresso-like device for tea.
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British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who has instigated highly-publicised campaigns to improve school dinners, is to launch a campaign highlighting the dangers of consuming too much sugar.
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After many years in development, the much-heralded flavour enhancer called Sweetmyx is set to make its debut in two PepsiCo-owned soda brands in the US.
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A new pop-up bar in London makes imbibing easier than ever. Created by “culinary wizards” Bompas & Parr, the installation features a room filled with a gin and tonic mist that gives guests that boozy buzz with a few deep breaths.
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In just over three years, Suja has gone from a small home-delivery juice company to one of the US’s leading organic, cold-pressed juice brands. Now, thanks to a minority investment by The Coca-Cola Company, the San Diego-based company is a step closer...
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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