31 Mar Coke’s fight for a future
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?
...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?
...Pepsi has reclaimed its positioning as the No 2 soda in the United States, five years after losing that spot to Diet Coke.
...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.
...Officials in the US have sparked controversy by approving a powdered alcohol that can be mixed into drinks, snorted or even sprinkled onto food.
...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.
...There's no keeping sugar out the headlines...
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.
...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...
A new industry report has revealed how much wine is being produced each year—and who’s drinking it.
...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.
...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...
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.
...The Scotch whisky category appears to have hit a tipping point. What does the future look like for the until-recently booming category?
...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...
Citrus greening, a bacterial disease that’s ravaging orchards, has brought the US OJ industry to a crossroads.
...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.
...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.
...Could premium milk be the greatest coup for beverage companies since bottled water? Coca-Cola apparently thinks so.
...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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