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...
Coca-Cola and Monster Beverage have announced that Coke will make a net cash payment of $2.15-billion in exchange for a 16.7% stake in Monster. Coke will also gain two seats on Monster's board of directors.
Thanks to new weaponry built with touch screens, Italian or Apple-inspired design and the latest technology, the cola wars are returning to an old battleground, the soda fountain. PepsiCo has now been rolling out Spire, a range of new self-serve equipment for dispensing drinks in...
"An apple a day" is not just a nutritional myth. It has become a rally call by some of the world's top brewers In the US.
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The demanding demographic group known as millennials, as well as new consumers among the world's emerging middle class, have a restless appetite that is driving food companies to experiment on a grand scale with flavours and ingredients whose appeal until recently were largely local. Pepsi...
Americans may not have figured out the answer to the obesity epidemic, but for years they've pointed to Coca-Cola and other soda as one of the causes. Coke has tried fighting against this. It's tried ignoring it. Now it accepts this as a reality. This...
Coca-Cola, the world's largest beverage company, plans to invest $5-billion with its bottling partners in Africa over the next six years, to create new manufacturing capacity, sustainability initiatives and jobs.
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The Coca-Cola Company has ditched stevia as a sweetener for Glaceau vitaminwater in the US and will revert to the original sweetening system – which used crystalline fructose and, in some cases, cane sugar.
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Tata has just done rival Unilever a huge PR favour...
America's 'King of Beers' is bowing down to a food blogger. Anheuser-Busch unveiled the ingredients of Budweiser and Bud Light for the first time yesterday, a day after a popular food blogger started an online petition to get major brewers to list what's in their...
Coca-Cola is to launch Coca-Cola Life, its first new cola drink in Britain for eight years and which contains a third less calories and sugar than the regular variant.
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A new giant in the coffee industry will be created after Douwe Egberts maker, DE Master Blenders, has merged with Mondelez’s coffee business. The combined business, which will be called Jacobs Douwe Egberts, will have $7bn of revenues, making it a strong challenger to industry...
Starbucks, eager to make money well beyond the realm of coffee, is officially entering the soda wars. This northern hemisphere summer, the coffee shop’s baristas will offer a handcrafted carbonated beverage dubbed “Fizzio” in 3 000 US stores, as well as in Singapore, South Korea...
Coca-Cola says it will no longer use a controversial stabilising ingredient, brominated vegetable oil (BVO), in its Powerade sports drink.
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UK squash brand, Robinsons from Britvic Soft Drinks, aims to transform the squash category with the launch of a new pocket-sized innovation, Robinsons Squash’d, a super concentrate which is added to water, ideal for the pocket or handbag to enhance healthy hydration and on-the-go consumption...
If you can successfully make and market Kool Aid and Tang, why not do the same with rum, vodka and margaritas? That's the aim of a start-up US company that's had the internet in a tizzy over what appeared to be the regulatory approval of...
The US Supreme Court spent about an hour on Monday listening to arguments from POM Wonderful and Coca-Cola in a case that could have far-reaching implications for American food and beverage marketers. [Click pic to enlarge]
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