Powerade Takes on Propel, and Adds Creatine Variant. Coca-Cola’s Powerade sports drink brand has announced two new products in the US (BD Email News Alert 1/16/20, or click HERE). Powerade Power Water will go head-to-head with PepsiCo’s Propel fitness water for the first time since Propel’s introduction 20 years ago. Like Propel...

Coca-Cola. The company has signed a beverage contract with the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team and the Wells Fargo Center, replacing Pepsi after 23 years, according to the Philly Voice.

PepsiCo. A federal jury has ruled that PepsiCo owes Iowa-based Pepsi bottler Mahaska almost $3 million in pricing–related reimbursements that should have paid after deals with national customers such as Dollar General … PepsiCo

Industry Makes Progress to Cut Calories. An industry initiative to reduce beverage calories consumed cut daily per capita calorie consumption at a faster rate in 2018 than in previous years, according to a new report on behalf of the American Beverage Association and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. The organizations have collaborated since