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]
...Forbes recently published a list of the top 500 billionaires on the planet. Heading the list was Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, with a fortune of £45.2bn. But it wasn’t just internet entrepreneurs on the list. Food and drink businesses were responsible for the fortunes of...
Mike McCloskey, a veterinarian-turned-farmer-turned-entrepreneur, is revolutionising the dairy industry. Using a patented membrane-filtration process, he is the brains behind Core Power, a silky-smooth high-protein milk - little fat, no lactose, cane sugar and natural honey - that has seen Coca-Cola buy an equity stake and...
Putting the "bar" in barista, Starbucks has announced that it will be shifting from selling alcohol in a few select stores to unleashing it across the US.
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Coca-Cola is looking to expand the footprint of its part-stevia sweetened Coca-Cola Life brand beyond its initial launch in Argentina.
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Brazil's hot and dry summer sent coffee prices soaring to a two-year high this week. The country's worst drought in decades also fuelled rallies in the sugar and orange-juice markets. Brazil is the world's biggest producer and exporter of all three commodities and the dry...
Slowing growth at Anheuser-Busch InBev and a dearth of big takeover targets may finally drive the world’s biggest brewer to swallow its $79-billion rival, SABMiller, a proposition that many analysts view as feasible if not incredible.
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Americans are so over soda. And while that may be good for the their expanding waistlines, it’s bad news for the companies that make the sugary drinks. Just take a look at this chart from IBISWorld, a global market research firm, predicting the...
Nespresso is launching a new large-cup coffee system in the US and Canada, aiming to secure a major segment of a market worth some $5bn each year in the US alone.
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PepsiCo has closed one of the more disruptive chapters in its recent history, when, in its full-year results announced last week, it said it would not be splitting its stagnant North American Beverage (NAB) business from its fast-growing snacks units.
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SodaStream is not a glass-half-empty kind of company. Last week, when Coca-Cola and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters announced a partnership that would encroach on its turf, SodaStream execs shrugged and described the development as "recognition that custom carbonation is the future". Now, it's shown a...
Johnnie Walker has joined the likes of Google, Nike and Dropbox as the only drinks brand to be included in a 2014 ranking of the world’s 50 most innovative companies.
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Russia's deeply-ingrained vodka binging leads to an "extraordinarily" high risk of an early death for Russian men, an Oxford study has found.
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Coca-Cola and Green Mountain Coffee have delivered a crushing blow to SodaStream — the beverage behemoths have entered a 10-year agreement to develop Coke brand products for the Keurig Cold, a yet-to-be-launched system similar to SodaSteam’s soda-making device.
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A groundbreaking tax on sugar-sweetened beverages became law in Mexico in January 2014. Public health advocates are watching closely to see what impact - if any - the tax will have on consumption...
Affirming the potential of high pressure juice processing in the US, the Suja Juice Co, the US's leading producer, has been named third among Forbes Magazine's 2014 list of America's Top 100 Most Promising Companies. Suja is also the only consumer packaged goods company within...
The world’s biggest brewers are aggressively rolling out products designed to appeal to fans of craft beer. But they’re not putting the microbrewers who started the movement out of business.
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With a media blaze of publicity in the UK, a campaign group, Action on Sugar, has been formed to reduce the amount of sugar added to food and soft drinks in an effort to tackle obesity and diabetes in the UK. [Click pic to...