Brand to Expand from Food Service to Large Format in 2020
September 17, 2019
Coca-Cola-owned Honest Tea began rolling out a new ready-to-drink organic cold brew coffee last month at select West Coast food service accounts. Honest will expand US distribution in 2020 nationally to other food service outlets and large-format retail stores. The product was sampled last week at Expo East in Boston. Cold Brew is Honest’s first US coffee launch. More launch details...
Company Rebuts Negative Perceptions of Caffeine, Sugar and Taurine
August 9, 2019
Monster Beverage recently surveyed media influencers and opinion leaders about their perceptions of the energy drink category. Monster followed up with a letter sharing some of the findings and rebutting "misconceptions" ...
A new report by Zenith Global found that the global market for bottled alkaline water grew by volume at an average annual rate of about +12% between 2013 and 2018. Zenith analysts expect that average annual volume growth rate to accelerate during...
Plus, Analyst Reacts to Coke-Monster Arbitration Ruling
July 12, 2019
A three-person arbitration panel has cleared the way for a possible US launch of Coca- Cola’s new canned energy drink, which is already available in Europe and Japan...
Coke and PepsiCo are now locked in a race to capture international market share in premium RTD coffee with brands that won’t carry their corporate names...
Monster Beverage held its annual investor meeting on June 6. During Q&A, executives said they are likely to pursue acquisitions in soft drinks and alcohol globally by mid-2020, as various...