Healthy beverages are in demand globally, including in the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Join Kerry Taste & Nutrition for a webinar where experts will discuss key aspects of this trend, including clean label, sugar reduction and fortification.
Beverage categories are undergoing massive redefinition around the world - with a proliferation of brands and products, consumers have more choice than ever before. We’re at the beginning of a period defined by experimentation and fragmentation, with people and companies willing to try new ideas to an unprecedented extent. New Nutrition Business unpicks this driving trend.
Key global brewing industry exhibition, Brau Beviale, returned to Nuremburg last week. This article presents some analysis of latest trends in the beverage packaging and production industry....
Phil Lempert, known as 'The SupermarketGuru', is one of America’s leading food and consumer trend-watchers and analysts. Here's his report on what trend-setting US retailer, Whole Foods - now owned by Amazon - predicts for the F&B development in 2019.
The success of coconut water – which surged from zero in 2006 to an almost $1-billion (€750-million) business in North America and Europe by 2013 – is just the first step in a massive emerging trend: healthy, natural, low-calorie waters taken directly from plants. [Click...
MOVE over lattes. Juice made from green leafy vegetables is the latest health-food trend. Is it really good for you, or just an expensive fad?
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With over 290 billion litres sold in retail and foodservice, tea is the world’s most consumed beverage, outpacing bottled water, carbonates, beer and coffee. But, with global retail value of just $40.7 billion (compared to coffee’s $75.7 billion and carbonates’ $183 billion), tea still lacks...
Flavours for health, such as herbs and spices, honey and new generation superfruits will be the next hits in the global beverages market, according to Innova Market Insights.
...Tea is the "hottest beverage" in the global drinks landscape, and one with unlimited opportunities as a natural product with scientifically proven health and wellness benefits. So asserts Winfried Hopf, executive VP of global beverages at Unilever...
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...
Adult and/or non-alcoholic soft drinks are an obvious beverage trend - and tapping into this is a new, alcohol-free sparkling white [not referred to as wine] launched by Distell's The House of JC Le Roux. As the liquor giant says, "Now fashionistas have a sophisticated...
New product activity in soft drinks appears to be accelerating strongly again with rising levels of global launch activity recorded by Innova Market Insights over the past two years, following more restrained rises in the three years previous to that.
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The number of US children who drink sugar-free beverages has doubled in the past decade, a new study finds - though the health implications of the trend, if any, are unclear.
...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...
Soda sales are flat and the beverage industry is looking for its next big thing. Increasingly, it is turning to the coconut. Touted as a natural sports drink that helps tired bodies rehydrate, coconut water is hitting a growing number of US store shelves, whether...