11 Feb PepsiCo launches Frutly juice waters for teens
PepsiCo launched a line of juice waters called Frutly aimed at the teenager market.
27 Jan Founder of Zico beverage brand buys it back from Coca-Cola
Zico Beverages founder Mark Rampolla is bringing his beverage baby back home after seven years apart.
10 Jan UK: Gordon’s pushes into ‘low & no’ with 0.0% spirit
Spirits giant Diageo is taking its Gordon’s into 'low & no' with a 0% version of the massive gin brand.
13 Dec New approach to sugar reduction via super-sweet proteins
US cranberry company, Ocean Spray, has partnered with Amai Proteins to incorporate healthy, sweet proteins into its product portfolio, creating cranberry juice with roughly 40 percent less sugar.
27 Nov Hydrosol takes giant step into plant-based ingredients
The plant-based food trend is an over-arching movement around the world - and now Germany's Hydrosol has taken a massive step to serve this market with the launch of a new company, Planteneers – The Plant Based Pioneers.
09 Nov Silicon Valley start-up launches quickfire whisky
Bespoken Spirits is a Silicon Valley-based start-up, one of several reinventing the $500bn global spirits industry, using proprietary technology to reproduce the taste of a barrel-aged whisky, rum or brandy in three to five days.
26 Oct A new plant-based alternative to cow’s milk
Impossible Foods, makers of the Impossible Burger and other plant-based meat alternatives, is working on another food replacement that looks, tastes and behaves like cow’s milk.
26 Oct Coca-Cola kills TaB, after almost 60 years
Coca-Cola has confirmed that it will stop selling TaB across the world, including in South Africa.
26 Oct Guiness 0.0 launches in Great Britain
The global drinks company Diageo is to further raise the stakes in the burgeoning low- and no-alcohol drinks sector by launching a booze-free version of Guinness in Britain and Ireland.
14 Oct Coca-Cola further trims its product portfolio
Coca-Cola is discontinuing its coconut water brand Zico, seven years after it was acquired. The beverage maker is also reviewing several other drink brands in its portfolio, including Coke Life, as part of this offloading process.
29 Sep Obituary: The man who started the cola wars
Donald Kendall, a former fountain-syrup salesman who engineered the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay, then built PepsiCo into one of America’s largest companies while selling soda to the Soviet Union as part of a Cold War gambit, died Sept 19 at his home in Greenwich, Conn. He was 99.
26 Sep The end of coconut water?
There is no doubt that the coconut water market is exploding. But there’s another side to the story - one of the world’s trendiest nuts is under threat of species collapse.
16 Sep US: PepsiCo debuts relaxation beverage
PepsiCo’s latest innovation is a relaxation beverage, Driftwell, that's being pitched as a way to combat stress and insomnia, problems rife in the Covid-19 era.
15 Sep ‘Like sending bees to war’: the deadly truth behind almond milk
Don't be fooled... vegan products also involve a massive cost in animal and insect lives, to wit this article that looks at the annual sacrifice of billions of bees in pollinating California's rapidly expanding almond orchards.
20 Aug The 10 most expensive alcohols in the world
Here's a look at some of the planet’s most expensive tipples, designed for the fabulously wealthy.
17 Aug Diageo buys Aviation Gin brand for over R10bn!
Hollywood actor, Ryan Reynolds, is toasting a big payday after the Aviation Gin brand he invested in was bought by the world's largest spirits maker.
13 Aug Unilever’s tea business: shedding and keeping the Lipton brand
Unilever plans to divest most of its tea business following a six-month review by placing them into a separate entity, the company said during a recent earnings call. The changes would see Unilever divesting the Lipton brand in some areas while retaining it in other markets.
13 Aug Coca-Cola launches paperboard multipack rings in European first
Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) has adopted CanCollar paperboard-based ring technology for its multipack cans in Europe, with the initial launch in Spain's Balearic Islands and further rollout anticipated.
26 Jul Diageo to début Johnnie Walker in innovative paper-based bottle
British beverage giant, Diageo, will launch its Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky in a 100% plastic-free, paper-based bottle, as part of its sustainability efforts.
26 Jul Coca-Cola’s Covid-created quarterly sales slump
Coca-Cola has suffered its biggest drop in quarterly sales in at least 25 years, in stark contrast to a resilient performance from rival PepsiCo and raising questions about the beverage company’s defensive qualities. [A challenge to say this headline quickly! Ed]