Company partners with TerraCycle to ensure recyclability of packaging
Los Angeles-based F. Gaviña & Sons Inc., the makers of Latin-style espresso Café La Llave, announced the launch of Café La Llave Espresso Single Serve Coffee Pods, marking the brand's entry into the single-serve pod market.
Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) Burlington, Mass., and Plano, Texas, announced its first quarter results, which ended March 31, reporting a 4.4 percent net sales growth to $2.61 billion, compared with $2.5 billion a year ago.
Single-source coffee joins brand’s Nespresso Professional Origins lineup
Lausanne, Switzerland-based Nespresso announced that its Nespresso Professional brand launched Peru Organic, the first certified organic Nespresso coffee, it says. The addition of Peru Organic is part of a revamp of the brand's Professional Origins coffee range, which includes three other single-origin coffees sourced from Brazil, Guatemala and India. All four are designed for Nespresso Professional coffee machines, including the recently launched Nespresso Momento machine range.
Kraft Heinz is partnering with cream liqueur brand Baileys, a brand of Diageo North America, to launch the non-alcohol Baileys Ready-to-Drink Cold Brew Coffee in cans.
K-Duo portfolio units single-serve and drip coffee
Keurig Dr Pepper, Burlington, Mass., and Plano, Texas, announced the launch of the K-Duo portfolio, a line of coffee makers uniting single-serve and drip coffee functionality under the Keurig brand equity. With the ability to brew a single cup using K-Cup pods and a carafe of drip coffee, the new brewer lineup offers convenience and versatility all in one machine, the company says.
Ready-to-drink sub-segments cold brew, functional in vanguard
When analyzing the U.S. coffee market, data shows that the growth of the caffeine-inducing beverage category is being driven by single-serve, convenient segments: ready-to-drink (RTD) and single-cup coffee.
The daily “cup of Joe” recently has taken on a new meaning as consumers now are trending toward crafted and tasteful, yet highly caffeinated forms of coffee.
Drip coffee brand uses Huhtamaki's blueloop line of recyclable flexible packaging
“We believe that the zero-landfill packaging option is an important competitive advantage as we pivot our business model toward co-packing and private-labeling single serve, pour over coffee for regional and global brands.”
To celebrate its 150th anniversary, Moët Impérial, Moët & Chandon unearthed a collection of never-before-seen photos. Through a Kickstarter campaign, Josh Wilbur started Steeped Coffee, a single-use coffee in a biodegradable steeping bag. The 2nd Annual Sebrig Soda Festival took place April 5-6, where soda companies introduced new creative flavors.