Articles Tagged with ''non-alcoholic drinks''

With the summer in full force, there’s nothing quite like enjoying fresh-from-the-vine fruits on your plate — and in your beverages.

After being out for the past few weeks on maternity leave, I am happy to be back at Beverage Industry. The birth of my first child definitely was a time for celebration in our family. However, I still was too exhausted to join in the festivities.

Beverage Industry provides an in-depth look at the performances and trends in non-alcohol and alcohol categories in the last year. 

Remember when nothing said summer like sitting on Grandma's porch and sipping a tall glass of ice-cold lemonade? The pure sourness and simple ingredients made taste buds dance.

Recently I was reminiscing with one of my current co-workers about the monthly company enewsletter that the local media company I used to work for would distribute.

In line with consumers’ interest with health and wellness products as well as vegetable flavors, Camden, N.J.-based Campbell Soup Co. introduced in January its new line of V8 Vegetable and Fruit Juice beverages. This month, Beverage Industry readers have shown that they agree that this new product release was on point by voting the product line Beverage Industry’s Readers’ Choice New Product of the Month for March.

The 35th annual Natural Products Expo West tradeshow, which took place March 6-8 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif., boasted an attendance increase of 7.2 present, bringing together more 71,000 industry members, more than 2,700 exhibiting companies, and 634 first-time exhibitors.

When walking through the aisles of retail stores, one might notice how different the consumer packaged goods (CPG) environment is compared with previous decades.

Although it might not look it outside, if you are in the Midwest or Northeast, summer isn’t too far away. In anticipation of summer activities and the food and beverages that accompany many of them, beverage-makers have started rolling out new products to complement the season. And it looks as though the readers of Beverage Industry are excited for some new summer flavors.