News & Analysis for the Beverage Industry
Sustainable Food & Drink Podcast
Thousands of child labourers work in coffee, but the true levels remain under-researched. Lumina Intelligence speaks to the Sustainable Coffee Challenge about the worst forms of child labour.
As the EU and Australia negotiate a free trade agreement, the EU has given Australia a list of more than 200 spirit names with geographical indicators that it wants protected as part of any deal.
Small vineyard owner Mylène Bru has been catapulted onto the global wine scene thanks to a chance encounter with DJ Gilles Peterson and a brush with a celebrity.
The Boston Beer Company is hoping to attract more health-conscious consumers with its second alcoholic tea brand in the US, Wild Leaf Craft Hard Tea.
Constellation Brands is divesting Black Velvet Canadian Whisky, along with a subset of Canadian Whisky brands, to Heaven Hill Brands for $266m USD.
Diageo has created a joint venture, Ron Santiago S.A., with Corporación Cuba Ron S.A. The joint venture will have exclusive global distribution rights for premium Cuban heritage rum brand, Santiago de Cuba.
The Chinese wine market has been showing a slowdown: thanks to shifting global imports, refined consumer taste and uncertain trade wars. But experts say it’s only temporary.
News in Brief
Danone's yogurt giant Activia is entering the fermented food and drink category with new Live Culture Smoothies claiming to offer consumers a gut health boost.