12 Jan Better Juice seals first deal to bring sugar-reduced fruit juice to market
Israeli foodtech start-up, Better Juice, reports it has sealed its first commercial deal to bring reduced-sugar juices one step closer to supermarket beverage aisles.
13 Dec Just Drinks Excellence Awards 2021 – winners announced!
The Just Drinks Excellence Awards celebrate the greatest achievements and innovations in the industry - and you can access this report FREE from this excellent but subscription-only global drinks website.
29 Nov Heineken 0.0 draught launches in the UK
Alcohol-free beer will be widely available on tap in UK pubs next year - here's why....
27 Nov Unilever divests large chunk of its tea business
Unilever is selling its developed markets tea business for €4.5bn, more than a year after the company launched a strategic review of the unit.
03 Nov Coke buys makes it’s biggest buy ever
Coca-Cola Co is buying full control of BodyArmor for $5.6-billion in a cash deal that values the sports-drink brand at about $8-billion, amping up a rivalry with Gatorade.
16 Oct Big health punch in new nutraceutical cacaofruit drink
Cocoa and choc ingredients giant, Barry Callebaut, has launched a new better-for-you drink mixture made of 100% cacao fruit — which is positioned as the “first nutraceutical fruit drink”.
29 Sep Lab-grown coffee brewing in Finland
Is there anything cellular agriculture via bioreactors can't recreate? Latest to join this burgeoning sector is coffee...
27 Sep World Beverage Innovation Awards 2021
The UK's FoodBev Media once again hosted its annual World Beverage Innovation Awards which, despite the difficulties of the past 18 months, was full of amazing innovation and exciting new products and initiatives!
29 Aug Do we have our taste for alcohol to thank for civilization?
According to Edward Slingerland’s new book, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization, the answer to this question is a resounding yes.
25 Aug PepsiCo’s sale of Tropicana: what it means for the future of the juice category
On 3 August 2021, PepsiCo announced the sale of its Tropicana and Naked fruit juice businesses - a giant change that's explored further here by Euromonitor.
12 Aug Coca-Cola trials packaging-free, self-pour, self-pay tech
Consumers of Coca-Cola in Spain can now self-pour and pay for drinks as part of a European-first trial of a beverage dispensing system
04 Aug PepsiCo bales out of juice in North America
PepsiCo has announced a deal to sell its Tropicana and other juice brands in North America to French private equity firm PAI Partners (PAI) for $3.3-billion.
28 Jul America’s taste for hard seltzer is suddenly starting to wane
The fast-growing market for hard seltzer is losing its fizz, tapering off as competition intensifies.
13 Jul US: Coca-Cola Zero Sugar gets a revamp
Coca-Cola Zero Sugar is rolling out with a new recipe and packaging in the US, with the product promising ‘an even more iconic Coke taste’.
27 Jun Better Juice raises $8m in seed funding
Better Juice, the first company to reduce all sugars from natural juices, is making further progress on the road to full commercialisation of its propitious technology.
17 Jun Ronaldo snub sees Coca-Cola market value fall by $4bn
Soccer super-star Cristiano Ronaldo's removal of two Coca-Cola bottles at a Euro 2020 news conference this week coincided with a $4bn drop in the market value of the American drink giant.
15 Jun Global beverage alcohol expected to gain +3% volume in 2021
Global beverage alcohol is showing positive signs of recovery, and is projected to grow in volume by +2.9% by the end of 2021. Some great insights from IWSR...
28 May Nestlé’s new pea-based ‘not milk’ alternative
Nestlé in Europe has launched Wunda, a new pea-based beverage that is 'epic in everything' that you would otherwise use milk for.
27 May Coca-Cola cans energy drink line in N America
In anther trimming of its portfolio, Coca-Cola will discontinue Coca-Cola Energy in North America, less than two years after it launched there.
05 May Space-aged wine expects to sell for small fortune
A bottle of French wine that orbited the Earth for more than a year has been put up for sale by Christie's - with an exorbitant price tag!