Beverage brands are increasingly looking to add functionality as well as fun to their products, with the addition of everything from cannabinoids to prebiotic fibers, plant-based proteins, adaptogens, and collagen.
Many dairy companies and cooperatives have turned to R&D to improve profits, going beyond milk, yogurt and cheese, looking to create functional ingredients that can be added to a wide range of products.
Beverage giants – think Coca-Cola and PepsiCo – are no longer simply about soda. Whether it’s juice or sparkling water or RTD tea, they’re now about creating portfolios with products that promise to bring health and wellness into the mainstream.
One of the most exciting players in the fast-growing meal replacement space, Soylent built its business – and a highly engaged community – online, first on its own website, and later on Amazon, but has recently ventured into the bricks and mortar space...
Consumer demand for both plant-based and fermented beverages is soaring because these products are perceived as natural and healthy alternatives to traditional beverages.
DuPont Nutrition& Health has created a unique way to combine...
Today’s consumers are checking beverage labels for higher protein, lower sugar content, and clean and simple ingredients.
They want nutrition, but, above all, they expect an enjoyable drinking experience.
What are the fastest-growing beverage categories and which consumer trends are successful firms tapping into?
Get the lowdown on what’s hot and what’s not from Howard Telford at Euromonitor, branding expert Simon Thorneycroft, Califia Farms CEO...
‘Globesity’ gets more critical every day – but people still crave the sweets, snacks and desserts they have loved for so long.How are companies responding to this public health epidemic, and is ‘self-regulation’ in the form of smaller portions and low-sugar...
The global beer market is expected to reach $688 billion by 2020, according to Allied Market Research. Innovations are coming from all directions – but which ones will really thrive and drive the category forward? With the craft beer phenomenon showing...
Whether it’s a new ingredient, novel technology, or different way of looking at established categories, disruptive companies are always thinking outside the box. We’ve gathered together some of the best and brightest CEOs to talk about what they’re doing...
What are the fastest-growing beverage categories and what consumer trends are successful firms tapping into? Hear from two leading beverage market researchers, a beverage CEO and a leading retailer to find out which beverage categories are growing, what...
Suja’s progress has been nothing short of meteoric, generating revenues of $18m in 2013, more than $40m in 2014, and a forecasted $70-80m in 2015. And now it can count Coca-Cola and Goldman Sachs’ merchant banking division as key investors. CEO Jeff Church...
Maximum possible product safety and pure taste are the key demands in the dynamic and fast growing markets of dairy products.With more than 20 years of expertise in aseptic design and over 140 years of innovations KHS is currently introducing the cap...
The Coca-Cola Company invested in Chicago-based co-operative Fairlife LLC in December 2012, and since then the company’s star has only risen further. Here, CEO Steve Jones introduces the company and its mission, looking at trends in dairy and the ‘protein...
Where are the high-growth beverage and liquid dairy categories in global terms, and where does Zenith International think the attractive opportunities lie, now and over the next, five, say years?Matt Wilton will also provide us with examples of successful...
