How Coca-Cola is Rethinking Disruptive Innovation to Anticipate Tomorrow’s Tastes

20-Feb-2020 - A team of technical experts is helping Coca-Cola North America launch breakthrough beverages in emerging categories – from kombuchas, to cultured ciders, to keto-friendly smoothies, to cold-brew coffees – in record time.The Transformational Innovation Team partners with brands and business units ...

BIOFACH and VIVANESS 2020: Global sector gathering wows more than 47,000 trade visitors

20-Feb-2020 - BIOFACH, the World’s Leading Trade Fair for Organic Food, and VIVANESS, the International Trade Fair for Natural and Organic Personal Care, achieved record highs for exhibitor numbers, exhibition space and international attendance at this year’s events. A total of 3,792 exhibitors from 110 ...

UK’s excessively high wine and spirit tax is stifling growth of British SMEs

20-Feb-2020 - Britain’s best loved wine and spirit SMEs have joined forces to urge the Chancellor Rishi Sunak MP to cut wine and spirit duty by 2% to help boost British business. Frustrated owners of small and medium-sized wine and spirit businesses have jointly penned a letter to the new Chancellor expressing ...

OeTTINGER starts partnership with Molson Coors

More variety for beer lovers

19-Feb-2020 - International newcomers for the German beer market: The two brewery groups OeTTINGER from Germany and Molson Coors from the USA enter into a comprehensive partnership in 2020. From April, consumers in Germany will thus have an even more diverse range of products to choose from and can look ...

Better-for-you beer has room to grow in Brazil

17-Feb-2020 - Like adults all over the world, Brazilians are reducing their alcohol consumption. More than one-third of Brazilian adults who have consumed alcohol say they would try a new alcoholic drink if it were a healthier version of alcohol. Mintel research provides insight into ways that brewers can get ...

More beer and higher prices: Heineken increases profit

13-Feb-2020 - The Dutch beer brewer Heineken increased its profits last year by about 13 percent to almost 2.2 billion euros. More beer was sold at higher prices, according to the annual figures presented by the company in Amsterdam on Wednesday. This year, the world's second largest beer brewer is again ...

Probably the first fast food robot machine in the world

10-Feb-2020 - It is small, agile and precise – and will soon be exciting fast food enthusiasts around the globe: the KR 3 AGILUS from KUKA won over the Brazilian company Bionicook and is now serving the company’s snacks, beverages and desserts to guests in the world’s first fully automated fast food machine of ...

95-calorie Blue Moon LightSky makes national debut

07-Feb-2020 - America’s top-selling craft beer has released a new brand called Blue Moon LightSky, a 95-calorie, light citrus wheat beer designed to appeal to a new group of legal-age drinkers and open the brand to new drinking occasions. Blue Moon LightSky, which launched nationally Feb. 1, is brewed with ...

Majority of British beverage manufacturers now see soft drink tax positively

05-Feb-2020 - In the debate about a sugar tax as part of the National Diabetes Strategy, it is worth taking a look at Great Britain: There, 60 percent of the beverage manufacturers are now positive about the sugar levy on soft drinks introduced in 2018. Only 10 percent see negative effects. Before its ...

A study identifies 17 key compounds in wine aromas

05-Feb-2020 - Maybe words such as ethyl butanoate and octalactone sound unfamiliar to most people who drink wine. However, these substances are some of the ones that give this popular drink its own scent. A recent piece of research published by the University of Cordoba and the Gheorghe Asachi Technical ...