There has been a changing of the guard at PepsiCo’s largest independently owned US franchise bottler, Pepsi Bottling Ventures. Paul Finney has retired as president and CEO, a post he had held since...

When we cancelled our family trip to San Diego last year, I didn’t imagine that we might have to consider postponing again this year. Yet here we are, facing a new Covid-19 variant. We aren’t cancelling our trip, though. We fly out Monday. Experts guided us all that this pandemic would present ups and downs. They said variants of Covid could turn the virus into an annual consideration like the flu. This is becoming the reality. As we watch the spread of Omicron, experts see evidence in South Africa that the variant isn’t hitting people as hard, as measured by the number ...

A collection of recent developments from around the industry to keep you up to speed...

Third-quarter global beverage volumes grew in most global markets reported by Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, according to regulatory filings. That marks two consecutive quarters of widespread quarter-over-quarter volume sales growth internationally for the companies as countries recover from...

A collection of recent developments from around the industry to keep you up to speed...

Walmart recently made interesting changes to its grocery app in the wild west of ecommerce. Previously, grocery orders for curbside pickup or courier delivery were transacted separately from e-commerce orders shipped by traditional means like FedEx. Now, Walmart has stitched those silos into a single experience for grocery shoppers that encourages them to become agnostic about ...

US sparkling water category growth at retail has remained strong through the first three quarters of this year despite lapping strong pandemic-related growth last year. Dollar sales were up +9.5% on volume and pricing growth of almost...