Coca-Cola Chairman and CEO James Quincey and North America President Jennifer Mann sat down on Sept 7 for an on-stage interview with equities analyst Lauren Lieberman at the Barclays Consumer Staples Conference in Boston. A key message from Quincey and Mann was Coca-Cola’s pursuit of...
The following is transcript of Beverage Digest's podcast, The Breeze, Episode 7.
Bang Energy went from boom to bust within just five years. After mounting a successful challenge to the supremacy of Monster and Red Bull and capturing the attention of PepsiCo, Bang unraveled and went bankrupt. Now in the hands of archrival Monster and its distribution partner Coca-Cola, will Bang rise again? New challengers like Celsius may have something to say about that question.
Duane Stanford invites regular Breeze contributor and industry expert John Sicher to discuss the recent wild and crazy days of energy drinks. They also unravel what happens next in this epic competition.
Beverage pricing growth in the US for both Coca-Cola and PepsiCo is likely to decelerate during the second half of this year, mostly as the rate of input cost inflation slows, according to those companies’ leaders. During analyst calls and interviews with BD during the recent spate of second-quarter earnings reports, executives said pricing for the second half of this year will be driven primarily by increases already