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Blue Cloud

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  • August 30, 2023

    Briefs: August 30, 2023

    A collection of recent developments from around the industry to keep you up to speed...
  • 1 lead web
    July 25, 2023

    Dueling Alcohol Models

    What’s better: a Blue Cloud, or a Red Tree?

    For the past decade, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have diverged in the US when it comes to soft drink distribution strategy. Coke owns no soda distribution operations, leaving that in recent years to independent franchised bottlers. On the other hand, PepsiCo owns and operates most of its US bottling distribution system. Now that both companies are seeking a growth path through alcoholic beverages, their strategies in the US have diverged once again.

    As you’ll read in today’s issue, PepsiCo is going all-in on the distribution of alcoholic beverages such as Hard Mtn Dew with its Blue Cloud Distribution subsidiary. The company appears...

  • July 25, 2023

    PepsiCo’s Blue Cloud Executives Address Critics

    Despite PepsiCo’s considerable work to keep its Blue Cloud alcohol distribution operation separate from its non-alcoholic business, the subsidiary has become a magnet for criticism as it forges new ground in the highly regulated and competitive US alcohol beverage market. In a new interview, Blue Cloud Distribution GM Emiliano Di Vincenzo, and Blue Cloud Chief Legal Officer Randy Liebowitz, said the organization has...

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  • 2 lead
    April 19, 2023

    Buffalo Rock Latest Pepsi Bottler Eyeing Alcohol Distribution

  • April 6, 2023

    Speculation Ended: PepsiCo’s Blue Cloud Not Acquiring Corwin’s Beer Business

  • February 1, 2023

    Monster to Develop Small Brands In-House with Coke’s Blessing

  • 1 lead full
    December 19, 2022

    PepsiCo Bottler to Piggyback Hard Mtn Dew on Soda Trucks

  • November 22, 2022

    Briefs: November 22, 2022

  • October 20, 2022

    Analysts: U.S. Beer Wholesalers Troubled by Competition From ‘Big Soda’

  • Nacs lead 100
    October 10, 2022

    Highlights From NACS Show for Convenience Retailers

  • October 1, 2022

    PepsiCo to Show New Lemon Lime Soda Brand, Pink Drink Innovations at NACS

  • September 22, 2022

    Blue Cloud Distribution GM Says, ‘We’re in This for the Long Haul.’

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    September 15, 2022

    PepsiCo-Owned Blue Cloud Distribution GM Says, ‘We’re in This for the Long Haul.’

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