Stem claims to be the first start-up developing cell-cultured coffee for the masses. We catch up with its founders to ask how technology can help replace unsustainable practices and future-proof flavour.
Even though PepsiCo beat Wall Street expectations in its second quarter and saw organic revenue growth soar 13%, prompting it to bump-up its full-year revenue expectations, the beverage and snack giant stopped short of also raising its earnings per share...
As the RTD category continues to grow, Pernod Ricard expects to see heightened demand for high quality ingredients, an explosion in flavor variety, and more creative concepts in the category.
Bacardi’s Italian sparkling wine and vermouth brand Martini has reached a sustainability milestone: 100% of the wineries for the entire Martini portfolio are now certified sustainable.
Eying up strong growth – and strong growth potential - of its American whiskey portfolio, Pernod Ricard is creating a dedicated business unit called ‘The American Whiskey Collective’ to manage marketing and production of its premium challenger brands.
Diageo has acquired Vivanda, the owner of the technology behind Diageo’s digital ‘What’s Your Whisky’ online platform as well as the ‘Journey of Flavour’ experience at Johnnie Walker Princes Street in Edinburgh.
Premium spirits MNC Beam Suntory believes that the revival of travel retail is especially important for its India business to thrive, with the firm outlining how it plans to achieve growth in the category.
Blue Stripes has recently unleashed a broad line of cacao-based products made from underutilized and wasted parts of the cacao fruit to Whole Foods stores nationwide and will be launching its star product -- cacao water -- next month, which founder Oded...
The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has successfully registered 'Scotch Whisky' as a certification trademark in the US - the industry’s largest global market, worth almost £800m ($982m) a year.
Sapporo USA will acquire California craft brewer Stone Brewing, with the acquisition ‘bringing together the complementary strengths of Japanese artistry and innovation with the American craft brewing tradition in a fusion of cultures’.
Coca-Cola acquired UK coffee chain Costa Coffee in 2019: and has since been expanding the brand throughout Europe. This year it’s launching in the US: where it believes it has the products, quality and strategy to take on the country’s coffee giants.
Californian winemakers have blended their passions for wine, chocolate, and sustainability to create Vine to Bar - a premium dark chocolate that includes superfood ingredient WellVine Chardonnay Marc.
While The Coca-Cola Co.’s tolerance for underperforming brands and product launches that miss the mark has dropped dramatically in recent years, its appetite for “intelligent experimentation” has increased – underscoring the need for a structured yet...
Ribena Malaysia has taken its first venture out of its traditional blackcurrant beverage range with a strawberry line of products, citing their nutritional value and visual appeal as major reasons for this innovation.
Australian firm Doctor V is moving beyond an energy drinks focus to innovate in the wider functional beverage space, hoping to ride on the growth of the functional drinks trend in APAC.
Pernod Ricard’s Irish Distillers will invest €50m ($52m) in Midleton Distillery over the next four years to create a carbon neutral operation by the end of 2026.
An Australian living in London has overcome an extraordinary set of challenges including Brexit, the pandemic and more recently a sharp rise in prices as a result of the war in Ukraine to keep his vitamin enhanced juice business thriving.
Suntory tells us how it has taken its non-alcoholic beer alternative All-Free (a Japanese product with a particular focus on ‘nodogoshi’ - the mouthfeel prized by Japanese beer drinkers) into the US market: with its focus now on widening consumption occasions...
Thai firm Sesamilk is planning a major portfolio expansion for its dairy alternative products, whilst also calling for the government to provide more taxation and financial support for SMEs to accelerate growth.
Minor Figures is gaining steam in the competitive oat milk category backed by a recent minority investment from Danone Manifesto Ventures and Hong Kong-based Green Monday Group as it executes on its specialized business model centered on the coffee community.
Soylent is projecting sales of $100m this year on a run rate basis driven by solid double-digit growth and margins holding steady, ensuring it remains cash-flow positive without having to raise prices, despite the challenging inflationary environment,...
Alcohol brands and retailers will need to enhance collaboration to better display products that are most in sync with localisation and experimentation trends – two key factors driving younger consumers’ purchasing decisions today.
This is a lockdown success story about a mother and daughter from Brazil who moved to Sussex and wanted to create functional teas that not only did what they said on the tin but tasted good too.
While Coca-Cola has just unveiled plans to discontinue organic ready-to-drink tea brand HONEST Tea, Bolthouse Farms says there are significant opportunities to grow (primarily) organic ultra-premium juice brand Evolution Fresh, which posted a near-40%...
Gatorade is the undisputed leader in sports drinks, says the new CEO of BODYARMOR, which recently overtook Powerade to capture the #2 slot in the category. But after four years at Chobani, challenger brand extraordinaire, Federico Muyshondt knows a thing...
Organic ready-to-drink (RTD) tea brand HONEST Tea will be phased out of Coca-Cola’s portfolio by the end of this year, with executives highlighting “a drop in immediate consumption sales and limited glass supplies.” However, the organic juice line HONEST...
Launching at the London Festival in June will be ‘effortlessly effervescent’ Bolle, a new low/no sparking brewed drink designed to bring the same success to the low/no wine occasion as the neighboring beer and spirits categories.
The company's strategy in Beyond Beer products will involve both global rollouts of big successes and products tailored to local markets, says the company.
GoodSport – a sports drink launched in 2021 to disrupt the category with its milk-based product – is celebrating a successful first year by working on expansion plans with new lines and new markets on the horizon.
Japanese firms will gradually introduce a new voluntary net alcohol labelling scheme to avoid cost and environmental impacts, according to beer giant Kirin.
Global F&B giant PepsiCo is on the hunt for novel sustainability technology in the food and beverage sector to complement its business within the Middle Eastern region, with plans to look at other markets including Asia Pacific in the future as well.
Global alcoholic beverages giant Diageo has highlighted how promoting responsible drinking is important for alcohol firms to expand reach and retain consumer loyalty post-COVID-19, especially via digital initiatives.
Singapore’s upcoming implementation of its sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) labelling system Nutri-Grade is driving local beverage firms to reformulate and create low-sugar product options to avoid potential repercussions, including upcycled drinks firm...
After two years of focusing internally to navigate pandemic-related supply chain, labor and other challenges, Keurig Dr Pepper will begin to look outward once again for inorganic opportunities, including mergers & acquisitions, partnerships and minority...
Beverage manufacturers in the Asia Pacific region wanting to follow Coca-Cola’s lead by launching red-coloured beverages need to offer products that both fulfil the visual appeal, as well as clean label demands of consumers.
Alcohol giant Kirin has launched out its first hard seltzers in Japan as well as a new whiskey in response to rising trends surrounding ready-to-drink (RTD) consumption and sustained interest in the country’s whiskey sector.
French liquour company Giffard believes its menthe-pastille liqueur – much-loved in the west of France but little-known beyond – has the potential to gain a much wider following.
