Chicago-based Napa Hills turned wine into water last year when it launched two flavors of antioxidant-enriched functional water. It’s now expanding outside of Illinois and considering more flavors for 2019.
Plastic makes up 45% of packaging material and will grow to 55% in the next decade, hitting $45.5bn, according to the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies (PMMI).
The first four months of the UK’s sugar tax has failed to create any significant change in consumer behaviour; but it has encouraged widespread reformulation and the proliferation of lower sugar options, according to Nielsen.
‘Even in the best companies, zombies exist side-by-side with rock stars’
Coca-Cola is on a mission to ‘kill the zombies’: products that - for whatever reason - simply haven’t taken off. So far this year it has identified 125 ‘underperforming SKUs for elimination’ in one region alone.
Live Nation eliminated straws at its amphitheaters nationwide earlier this summer and has now also phased them out of its House of Blues locations in the US.
Two types of plants in Yunnan, Myriopteron extensum and Derris eriocarpa have been found to contain highly sweet-tasting compounds that are at least 25 times sweeter than sucrose, according to researchers from the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese...
This week, Tesco became the first major supermarket to sell cans of water. There were gushing appraisals of the move to “forget plastic”. On-the-go drinking options “just got way more sustainable”, noted the Huffington Post, citing the fact that aluminium...
New product launches, good weather and the FIFA World Cup has helped Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company grow revenue 6.4% in the first half of the year.
Japanese firm Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co.’s Oronamin C beverage has entered the South East Asian market for the first time, with its recent launch in Indonesia seeking to capitalise on the country’s rising demand for nutritional products.
Protein water brand Protein2o is on an “amazing growth trajectory,” said its president Andy Horrow. It’s poised for more growth after securing a distribution deal in 900 Publix stores.
Academics in Australia have called into question the lack of regulation for soft drink firms which market to youngsters via social media, arguing that "many young people aged below 13 years are being exposed to a large amount of unhealthy food and...
Molson Coors Canada and Canadian cannabis producer The Hydropothecary Corporation are to form a joint venture focusing on non-alcoholic, cannabis-infused beverages for the Canadian market following legalization.
