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.
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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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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.
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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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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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Could premium milk be the greatest coup for beverage companies since bottled water? Coca-Cola apparently thinks so.
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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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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...
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...
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...
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...
With more than 2.25 billion cups consumed every day, coffee is one of the most important crops on Earth. The DNA of the robusta plant has now been deciphered, and the unravelling of its mysteries holds many an interesting tale...
Coca-Cola has agreed to put traffic light-style labels on its drinks sold in the UK to help tackle the growing obesity crisis.
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After years of surrounding its coffee machines and their pods with patents, Nestle, the owner of Europe's largest single-serve coffee brand, Nespresso, has bowed to pressure from French competition authorities and agreed to open up to knockoff capsules from competitors around the world.
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McDonald's has announced that its long-awaited, full-tilt entrance into the $11 billion-plus US retail coffee market will take place early next year when it rolls out McCafé coffee in ground, whole-bean and single-cup forms through a partnership with Kraft.
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Once seen as a useless byproduct, coconut water is rapidly rising to prominence. What impact is it having on coconut farmers? Precious little, says this article...