SodaStream heads the list of Fast Company's [the fabulous online magazine and website that celebrates innovation of all kinds] annual list: The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Food. The company has been making many waves in the US, and elsewhere, even South Africa,...
Don’t let the name fool you. Coca-Cola’s Simply Orange juice [a premium US brand] is anything but pick, squeeze, and pour. That cold glass of 100 percent liquid sunshine on the breakfast table is the product of a sophisticated industrial juice complex. Satellite imagery, complicated...
Beer in Russia became an alcoholic drink for the first time on New Year's Day.
...On November 14th Starbucks made it largest acquisition yet, buying Teavana, an Atlanta-based tea retailer, for $620m. This is not the firm’s first foray into the tea market — its stores sell tea, of course, and it bought Tazo, a tea manufacturer and distributor, back...
Home carbonation beverage system maker, SodaStream International, is taking on "Big Soda" and looking to steal market share from the soft drink giants with the launch of its first global TV campaign and some posturing from its CEO.
...With smoking and drinking killing 900 000 people a year in Russia, Vladimir Putin is waging the biggest public health drive with a renewed crackdown on tobacco and drink.
...Starbucks has recently opened its first store in India, in central Mumbai (left). Days after the opening, Mumbaikars, mostly the young, were still queuing for up to an hour to grab their Frappuccinos. Elitist or not, it's not so much the coffee they want, but...
SABMiller is taking its African beer brand, Chibuku, to ten countries across the continent, as part of its strategy to produce more affordable beer for lower-income consumers while taking market share from the “informal” alcohol sector, the brewer has said.
...Meet Zong Qinghou. He started hawking drinks outside a school 25 years ago, and has since become China's wealthiest man as founder and chairman of the Wahaha beverage group that's now searching for acquisitions beyond China, particularly in Japan and Africa. Notoriously, his joint venture...
Diet Coke celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, and like many crossing over into their 30s, the brand can look back on some significant achievements and forward to some daunting challenges as well, says Mintel analyst, Sarah Theodore. [This article has...
Coca-Cola and its bottling partners will invest $5 billion in India by 2020 as it looks to raise its presence in one of its fastest-growing emerging markets.
...Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent insists his company is not responsible for the rise in US obesity despite New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's recent moves to limit the consumption of sugary drinks.
...Like McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Kraft and Nestle, Starbucks is a bell-weather company for the global food industry - and it was recently named as the "Number One World's Most Innovative Food Company" by Fast Company, the influential website that has as its premise: a global...
With the global cider market booming, Heineken has announced its acquisition of Stassen, a leading international cider innovator located in Aubel, Belgium. In addition to its strong research and development (R&D) capabilities and facilities, the acquisition of Stassen provides Heineken with cider making capacity in...
Britain's most public and famous entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, has extended his Virgin brand name from record shop ands airlines, to mobile phones, space and deep sea travel, hotels and cheeky health clubs, among several others. Now Brits will soon be finding the...
The Cola War continues. As Pepsi struggles to regain market share, Indra Nooyi’s job is on the line...
5-Hour Energy, the 60ml caffeine and vitamin elixir that purports to keep you alert without crashing. In eight years 5-Hour has gone from nowhere to $1-billion in retail sales. Truckers swear by it. So do the traders in Oliver Stone’s 2010 sequel to Wall Street....
PepsiCo has announced that Diet Mountain Dew, Brisk and Starbucks ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages have each grown to more than $1-billion in annual retail sales, expanding PepsiCo's portfolio of billion-dollar brands to 22. PepsiCo offers the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands.
...A thirst for milk, bred largely by the expanding middle classes in the developing world, has sent demand rocketing and prices soaring, according to a report in The New York Times. Along with zippy cars and flat-panel TVs, milk is the mark of new money,...