The third-quarter earnings season for the big-3 non-alcoholic beverage companies kicked off Tuesday with PepsiCo. Coca-Cola and Keurig Dr Pepper report the week of Oct. 23. Investors and analysts are watching for signs that consumers are pulling back on beverage purchases amid persistent inflationary grocery pricing and...

‘We Want to be the Most Approachable Energy Drink.’

Zoa Energy, launched more than two years ago by celebrity Co-founder Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, is seeking a new equilibrium. In a category where the fastest growth is coming from brands like Celsius that appeal to women as much as men, Zoa has brightened its visual identity, slimmed down its can, taken out the sugar, and cast a wider net. “We’re normalizing...

The Neuro-market researchers at Alpha-Diver, in partnership with Beverage Digest, have produced a “Sports and Energy Drinks Deep Dive” report extracted from The Bev50 study conducted and released earlier this summer. Click to download this free report....

When Kevin Keane joined the American Beverage Association in 2005 as SVP of policy and public affairs, industry issues were well focused on a single category. “We were talking largely about soda pop,” he recalled last week in an interview after being named the U.S. trade group’s CEO late last month. “Now there are so many different products that we're ...

PepsiCo’s Gatorade brand is jumping into the alkaline bottled water market with an electrolyte-infused entry called Gatorade Water to be available early next year. The product will be the brand’s first ever...

Coca-Cola will launch BodyArmor sports drink across Canada in January 2024, marking the US brand’s first international expansion since BodyArmor’s 2011 founding and Coke’s late 2021 takeover. “One of the first goals of the...