10 Sep Coca-Cola agrees to traffic-light labelling on drinks sold in UK
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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06 Sep Nespresso opens its coffee machines to knockoffs
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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20 Aug US: McDonald’s plans McCafé retail rollout in 2015
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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19 Aug At the bottom of coconut water’s popularity chain
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...
15 Aug Coca-Cola buys stake in Monster Beverage for $2bn
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.
15 Aug The war to reinvent the soda fountain
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...
14 Aug US: Big brewers betting on apple-flavoured malt drinks
"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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14 Aug Cashew juice, a new apple in Pepsi’s eye
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...
13 Aug Coke confronts its big fat problem
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...
08 Aug Coca-Cola raises African investment to $17bn
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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05 Aug Gone sour: Coke’s experiment with stevia for vitaminwater
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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24 Jul Pyramid tea bags better than round, UK advertising watchdog rules
Tata has just done rival Unilever a huge PR favour...
13 Jun Food Babe blogger forces Budweiser’s hand
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...
12 Jun Coca-Cola Life to début in UK
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.
...14 May Five key trends will guide PepsiCo’s future: CEO Nooyi asserts
Five “mega trends” will shape PepsiCo’s “new normal,” asserts Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO. "...
08 May New coffee giant emerges with Mondelez-Master Blenders merger
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...
08 May Starbucks gets fizzy
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...
08 May US: Coca-Cola drops Powerade ingredient linked to flame retardants
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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07 May UK: Robinsons unveils pocket-sized Squash’d
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...