Keurig Dr Pepper has announced several launches in addition to the rollout of new permanent flavor Dr Pepper Blackberry. They are 7Up Tropical, Snapple Peach Tea & Lemonade, Bai Simbu Strawberry and Bai Shala Coconut Strawberry, A&W Ice Cream Sundae, and RC Cola Zero Sugar. (For more on brand Dr Pepper’s success in recent decades, listen to BD’s newest Episode 21 of the Breeze podcast HERE.)

Molson Coors has now launched a Simply Spiked Bold variant of the flavored malt beverage marketed under a brand license from...

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 ...