Archives for April 15, 2014

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INNOBEV GLOBAL SOFT DRINKS CONGRESS, LISBON: FROM ZERO TO 400M LITER HERO

BIG Cola meets BIG Buddhism: ‘AJE isn’t your typical capitalist company’

By Ben BOUCKLEY

AJE’s CMO and Zen Buddhist master Jorge Lopez Doriga tells BeverageDaily.com that AJE ‘isn’t your typical capitalist company’, although flag brand BIG Cola is the fourth best-selling soft drink worldwide.

Morrisons criticised for YouTube alcohol advert

By Michael Stones

Morrisons has been slammed by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), after its video advertisement, broadcast during a series of children’s nursery rhymes on YouTube, featured images of spirit bottles with the voice-over “These litre bottles of...

Carton recycling access grows by 1m US households

By Jenni Spinner

Just in time for Earth Day, the Carton Council of North America has announced the number of US households with access to carton recycling jumped by 1m in the first quarter of 2014.

Major breakthrough for Scotch in battle to beat Aussie fraudsters

By RJ Whitehead

Scotland’s whisky industry is celebrating a “major breakthrough” in Australia, where this the spirit was registered as a certification trademark. The move comes after a long battle by Scotch Whisky Association to counter fakes, for which Australia has...

dispatches from Analytica 2014

Taking the temperature of quality control

By Joseph James Whitworth

Refrigerated and heating circulators are vital tools in quality control in the food industry, according to Julabo.  

Coke’s Simply Orange escapes US orange juice squeeze

By Ben BOUCKLEY

Despite Coke’s worrying soda sales slide, CEO Muhtar Kent revealed yesterday that not-from-concentrate juice brand Simply Orange brand bucked broader category declines to grow double digit in the US last year.