Consumers have quickly adjusted to the new reality by shifting to in-home consumption occasions, says AB InBev, which saw beer volumes grow 2.6% in Q3 despite ongoing global on-premise restrictions.
Coca-Cola has unveiled the first-generation prototype of its paper bottle: saying it is convinced that paper packaging has a role to play in the future.
Heineken is acquiring Strongbow from Asahi in Australia, after the Japanese firm was forced to sell the cider brand by competition chiefs as part of its deal to buy Carlton & United Breweries (CUB).
Coca-Cola European Partners' Topo Chico Hard Seltzer launch in Europe signals the start of a new strategy in alcohol. And the bottler hopes its proposed acquisition of Coca-Cola Amatil will give it insights for success in the category.
Coca-Cola will enter the alcohol category in Europe with the launch of Topo Chico Hard Seltzer in select markets next month. The brand will roll out across Europe in 2021.
Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) has made a non-binding proposal to acquire Coca-Cola Amatil, the Coca-Cola bottler in Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia.
Danone’s natural spring water brand Volvic will be packaged in 100% rPET bottles in Switzerland and Germany by the end of the year; while 100% rPET bottles wil be used across its whole US portfolio from 2021.
TaB – The Coca-Cola Company’s first ever diet soft drink launched in 1963 – will be discontinued in the US as the company continues to streamline its SKUs.
Brown-Forman will buy Part Time Rangers, a New Zealand company which produces spirit-based RTDs and supports animal conservation projects as part of its brand mission.
Juice and smoothie maker innocent is building a $250m carbon neutral production site – dubbed ‘the blender’ – at the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. With the first bottles due to come off the lines in 2021, innocent says the project is a symbol...
Six beverage brands make the BrandZ Top 75 Most Valuable UK Brands ranking. What have these brands – which include BrewDog and Gordon’s Gin – done so well to put them alongside big names like Dyson, Jaguar and M&S?
PepsiCo’s SodaStream and bubly brands will collaborate to launch bubly drops: ‘bringing bubly’s bright flavors to the SodaStream platform and enabling consumers to create their beverages at home’.
E-commerce for beverage alcohol has exploded due to the pandemic – increasing around four times in volume, according to Constellation Brands. But that’s only one change it sees in the way consumers shop.
Coca-Cola is discontinuing coconut water brand ZICO and reportedly putting several other brands including Diet Coke Feisty Cherry and Coke Life under review, as it slims down its portfolio to focus on top sellers and emerging brands with more global potential....
Constellation Brands is lining up new flavors and SKUs for Corona Hard Seltzer. Anheuser-Busch is bringing a new product into play with Michelob Ultra Organic Seltzer. Coca-Cola will launch its hard seltzer in 2021 - and is PepsiCo eying up an entry into...
PepsiCo reinforces its commitment to its three-pronged “Faster, Stronger, and Better” strategic framework Oct. 1 as it comes off a better than expected third-quarter in which its beverage business rebounded and pandemic-fueled demand for snacks and packaged...
By Prodromos Nikolaidis, Group Coffee Director, Coca-Cola HBC
Coffee represents a huge growth opportunity for Coca-Cola: not least with its acquisition of Costa coffee last year. In this guest article, Coca-Cola HBC's Group Coffee Director, Prodromos Nikolaidis, explores what is so attractive about the category.
Following the US launch of Nesquik GoodNes in January this year, food and beverage major Nestlé is bringing its plant-based ready-to-drink beverage to Europe.
Molson Coors has made an exclusive agreement with The Coca-Cola Company to manufacture, market, and distribute Topo Chico Hard Seltzer in the US: launching in the first half of 2021.
Diageo says it has made a ‘good start’ to fiscal 21 as markets start to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic: with the US in particular showing ‘resilient consumer demand’.
Danone brand evian is introducing 100% rPET bottles to the UK this week; the latest in a series of recycled plastic commitments from PepsiCo’s Naked Smoothies, Nestlé’s Buxton bottled water, and Coca-Cola GB. We explore how the move to rPET is progressing...
PepsiCo targets 100% renewable electricity across all company-owned and controlled operations by 2030; and across franchise and third-party operations by 2040.
The European Brands Association (AIM) is working to prove the viability of digital watermarking technologies. With the support of brands including PepsiCo, Nestlé and Unilever, the trade association hopes to boost the accuracy of packaging sorting.
Nestlé coffee giant Nespresso commits that every cup of Nespresso worldwide will be carbon neutral by 2022. In order to achieve this, it has initiatives in three key areas: reducing carbon emissions; planting trees in coffee farms; and investing in high-quality...
Heineken is testing new hard seltzer brand Pure Piraña in New Zealand and Mexico; while exploring the booming US market with Mexican hard seltzer Canijilla.
Core Power, a brand of fairlife LLC, has announced strawberry as the latest flavor to join its ready-to-drink high protein shakes in the Core Power Elite line, which already includes chocolate and vanilla flavors.
PepsiCo is launching Driftwell: a functional beverage containing L-theanine to promote relaxation. Representing PepsiCo’s fastest beverage brand ever to market, it was created through an internal idea pitch competition for employees.
Constellation Brands has acquired Kentucky-based Copper & Kings American Brandy Company, a distillery which produces American brandy, absinthe, gin and Destillaré liqueurs.
For innovations to succeed they do not need to be perfect out of the gate, but they do need to offer a real benefit to companies, their consumers and their retailer and business partners at a scale that justifies the investment and risk, top executives...
CCEP Ventures has acquired a 25% stake in Innovative Tap Solutions (ITS): with the two companies working together to introduce the self-pour dispense technology in Western Europe.
Sustainability had moved to the forefront of consumers’ minds in recent years – but has the coronavirus pandemic changed all that? Beverage brands innocent and SodaStream have faith that the progress of previous years has not been in vain.
Coca-Cola Amatil has completed a minority investment in digital asset payment platform Centrapay. The two companies are already working together on cryptocurrency vending machines.
Where is the beer category going next? A brewer who wants to win in tomorrow’s markets needs to be open-minded, responsive to change, and listen to its consumers - rather than being staunchly set and inwardly focused on its existing portfolio, says Heineken’s...
Carlsberg is striving to debunk the myth that booze- free beer is a poor alternative to regular brews with the launch of its alcohol-free pilsner and wheat beer in Singapore – and is letting consumers buy a sample can for as little as 10 cents.
Coca-Cola has announced several structural changes to streamline its global business including a consolidation of operating units, which will result in reallocation of some employees and resources, as well as a reduction to its workforce.
Carlsberg continues to champion the long-term potential of the alcohol-free category, which it sees being fuelled by an increased awareness of health and well-being among consumers as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. It pledges to keep investing...
The Coca-Cola Company has named Alfredo Rivera as president of Coca-Cola North America. Rivera most recently served as president of the beverage giant's Latin America group overseeing business operations across 40 countries.
Nespresso’s Reviving Origins initiative concentrates on supporting coffee producing communities in regions where ‘coffee growing is under threat’ by bringing high-quality 'rare coffees' to the market. FoodNavigator spoke to Alfonso Gonzalez...
Carlsberg is exploring the global potential of the hard seltzer category with the launch of products in Norway and Singapore. ‘It’s still early days, but we are positive of the opportunity’, says the brewer.
Heineken UK is rolling out its new ‘Green Grip’ cardboard topper: eliminating plastic from millions of cans. Debuting with Heineken, Foster’s and Kronenbourg 1664, the topper will eventually roll out across Heineken UK's entire beer and cider portfolio.
