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With lines continuing to blur across the performance beverage space, experts highlight how incorporating functional ingredients into daily-use formats, like ready-to-drink energy or hydration beverages, can give consumers benefits that extend well past the workout window.

Group Publisher Douglas J. Peckenpaugh reflects the changes within the beverage market as Beverage Industry nears its 80^th anniversary and highlights the growing non-alcohol beverage market.

More and more, traditionally non-alcoholic brands are entering the beverage alcohol space. Experts share how this has affected the market, consumer reaction, and expectations for the trend. 

James Taylor, chief commercial officer at OnRobot, Novi, Mich., says that, while there is a lot of buzz surrounding AI, he suspects the value it could create is something the industry still is trying to figure out.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) released updated interim final NEVI guidance designed to replace all prior NEVI guidance and allow states the opportunity to resubmit plans for the remaining funding that had been frozen since February.
 

As the lines between beverage categories continue to be blurred, experts highlight how the performance beverage market is moving toward functional lifestyle concepts, reflecting consumer demand.

Inspired by Finland’s deep cultural connection with mushroom coffee, Four Sigmatic Founder Tero Isokauppila set out to launch the Original Mushroom Coffee in 2012.

Beverage warehouses contending with fixed space and a growing SKU proliferation are adapting and growing by turning to the latest in voice picking technology.

Within the beverage industry, packaging materials play a crucial role in sustainability; as such, bag-in-box (BIB) and carton companies are working toward creating more environmentally friendly packages.

Robotics technology can be used to aid beverage industry operations as SKU proliferation impacts workflow.