Growth for the core Heineken brand – including performance ‘ahead of expectations’ for new alcohol-free Heineken 0.0 – has helped boost Heineken’s FY2017 results.
Coca-Cola FEMSA Philippines is laying off 600 employees, blaming the move on the "regulatory environment" just weeks after the country introduced its sugar tax.
Vazee's app tells manufacturers what consumers are eating and drinking in restaurants. It's important marketing data and Heineken and Pago have already signed up, its co-founder says.
PepsiCo is launching calorie-free sparkling water ‘bubly’ in the US this month, further expanding its water portfolio following the introduction of premium brand LIFEWTR last year.
Brown-Forman, the company behind brands such as Jack Daniel’s, Woodford Reserve and BenRiach, has agreed to purchase 30 megawatts of electricity per year from Solomon Forks Wind Project in Kansas, US.
AB InBev’s venture capital division ZX Ventures has opened a new brewery in Wuhan, China to tap into rising demand for craft beer, sales of which are believed to be growing by 40% year-on-year countrywide.
Carlsberg is seeking to increase the relevance of beer for today’s experimental gastronomy in the Danish restaurant scene, developing beers with new raw materials, methods and sensory profiles. Its new cask-conditioned Jacobsen beers have now launched...
Harmless Harvest, a US refrigerated premium coconut water brand, has secured $30m in growth capital from Danone Manifesto Ventures and others to support expansion plans of its organic portfolio with an emphasis on meeting sustainable quality standards.
The beer industry’s first round of consolidation is largely over as macro US brewers have slowed their pace of craft brewery acquisitions, making way for other types of deals that offer small brewers new paths forward, says Rabobank.
Nestlé Waters North America aims to drive 'significant growth' in the sparkling water category by introducing more carbonated offerings of its regional spring water brands next month in updated packaging and new flavors.
PepsiCo believes LIFEWTR's clear and unique brand purpose – supporting creativity and emerging artists – has been key in growing the brand over its first year on the market.
The Carlsberg Group is creating a ‘Young Scientists Community’ to work on the brewer’s sustainability program, announcing the launch at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.
Coca-Cola says it is ‘fundamentally reshaping its approach to packaging’ by pledging to collect and recycle the equivalent of 100% of its packaging globally by 2030. But what does environmental campaigner Greenpeace make of the commitments?
Diageo-owned Guinness has released a 'full-flavored, non-alcoholic' lager, Open Gate Pure Brew, created after two years of experimentation by brewers at St. James Gate in Dublin, Ireland.
Danone’s natural spring water brand evian will make all its bottles from 100% recycled plastic by 2025, seeking to create a completely ‘circular approach’ to plastic packaging.
‘I’m a fan. The low-calorie cola segment in the US is in desperate need of some kind of refresh…’
Coca-Cola is rolling out a bold new look for Diet Coke in slimmer 12oz cans, and introducing four spicy new flavors: Ginger Lime, Feisty Cherry, Zesty Blood Orange and Twisted Mango.* But what do designers and market researchers think of the new look,...
Coca-Cola has launched its first company-wide proprietary typeface, TCCC Unity, drawing inspiration from ‘the modernist American typography movement and Coca-Cola’s unique personality’.
Constellation Brands reported strong performance of its beer portfolio with net sales increasing 7.8% in Q3 2018 as its Mexican import brands have claimed four of the top share gainer positions in the total US beer category.
Nestlé Waters North America is considering building a $50m bottling facility in Centre County, Pennsylvania, US, driven by growing consumer demand for bottled water.
Consumption of alcoholic drinks has been largely static in recent years whereas the use of cannabis is growing and will continue to expand, offering a commercial opportunity for the alcohol industry in North America, according to Euromonitor analysts.
Coca-Cola is rolling out one of its fastest growing brands - the low calorie premium iced tea, Fuze Tea - in Europe this month. In the UK the drink will escape the upcoming sugar tax thanks to its use of the sweetener stevia.
Nestlé Waters North America has sold two of its iced tea brands, Tradewinds and Sweet Leaf Tea, to a private equity firm as part of its strategy of shifting towards a better-for-you beverage portfolio and focus on its legacy bottled water brands.
The High End, Anheuser-Busch’s (A-B) US craft beer and imports division, has launched an initiative called “Elevate” to address recent consecutive years of soft category growth by attracting new consumers to the category.
Anheuser-Busch has placed an order for 40 Tesla self-driving trucks, saying the technology will help it reduce its environmental impact and increase efficiency. It represents one of Tesla’s largest reported pre-orders.
AB InBev has opened its newest brewery in China, aimed at tapping into the booming growth of the country’s growing middle class - accounting for 76% of the total urban population by 2022 - and their premium beer preferences.
Australia’s advertising standards board has upheld complaints against a Coca-Cola advert, for ‘portraying the drink as a suitable substitute for a meal’.
Heineken has laid the foundation stone of its first brewery in Mozambique, identifying 'promising long-term economic perspectives' in the African country.
The European Commission has accused AB InBev of abusing its dominant position in Belgium's beer market, by hindering cheaper imports of its Jupiler and Leffe beers from the Netherlands and France into Belgium.
AB InBev has acquired Pirate Life, with a $10m ($7.6m USD) investment in a new South Australian brewery kick-starting growth plans for the Adelaide brewer.
The majority of millennials (72%) seek experiences over material objects: motivating beverage brands like Perrier to test out-of-home, multi-sensory marketing to effectively target a mobile generation of consumers, says CEO of Kinetic Worldwide North...
Budweiser is due to send samples of barley into space next week as part of a research project on the International Space Station. It is part of its ambitions to be the first beer on Mars – but Budweiser says the research could also provide wider insights...
Carlsberg Sverige’s brewery in Falkenberg, Sweden, is now 100% powered by biogas and green electricity, eliminating the brewery’s carbon emissions from thermal energy and electricity.
Under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma-Heineken (CCM/Heineken) of Mexico has been able to source all of its malted barley from Montana [US] tax-free, but that relationship could change with the EU and Mexico currently...
Food and beverage industry boardrooms are increasingly engaging in water sustainability and investing in water security, says not-for-profit CDP. So which companies made CDP’s annual water A-list?
