Starbucks and PepsiCo have launched a bottled Starbucks Frappuccino Lite extension at 100 calories and 9g of sugar per 9.5-oz bottle. (That compares to 290 calories and 43g of sugar per 13.7-oz bottle of the core Frappuccino line.) Sweetened also with sucralose, the Lite line offers flavors Sea Salt Caramel Gelato, Creamy Vanilla Gelato, and Double Chocolate Gelato. The line...

Beverage Digest hosted its annual Future Smarts conference last December in New York City. The day’s lineup of speakers included leaders from three of the largest US beverage companies — Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Keurig Dr Pepper. The executives sat for interviews on stage with Beverage Digest Editor & Publisher Duane Stanford. Here are highlights as the speakers looked ahead to 2025...

As promised, Suja Life has relaunched former PepsiCo brand Slice as a functional “healthy” soda with prebiotics and probiotics. Suja enters a gut soda market lead by brands such as Olipop and Poppi and replete with incoming competition. Coca-Cola and PepsiCo also are expected to enter the segment this year. Launched by PepsiCo in 1984 as a fruit flavored soda with 10% juice, Slice was...

Coca-Cola will launch an “evolved” formula for its Costa ready-to-drink canned coffee at Target nationally by March. The restage includes a name change from “Iced Coffee Latte” to “Iced Coffee.” Costa and Target have agreed to a multi-year program to support the product, according to Coca-Cola. Direct store delivery for the reformulated product will be piloted with Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling on the West Coast and Great Lakes regions. Costa Iced Coffees will ...

Retailers Amazon, Walmart, Costco Rose as Shoppers Sought Value, Online Convenience

Shares of Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Keurig Dr Pepper all underperformed the S&P 500 Index and the Consumer Staples Index in 2024. As shown in the table below, Coca-Cola was the only one of the three companies to post a gain. Top-3 energy drink makers...