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In beverage distribution operations, hand trucks and carts are indispensable pieces of material handling equipment that help transport heavy, bulky cases of beverages from delivery trucks to point-of-sale at retail stores.

Agua Plus, a brand of Plus Brand Industries, is a pH9+ alkaline water that features All-Scratch! Technology, a patented scratch technology that allows consumers to scratch their name, initials or image directly on the label.

For the 12th straight year, the spirits category, driven by premiumization, experienced accelerated growth. Tequila, RTD premixed cocktails and seltzer centric spirits are driving growth.

Informa Markets’ Natural Products Expo West, part of the New Hope Network family of brands, hosted the in-person return of the industry’s largest trade show March 8-12 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif. The event gathered more than 2,700 exhibitors and more than 57,000 registered attendees, the company says.

Although plastic bottles and containers are in high demand, for many beverage manufacturers the type of plastic they’re seeking is evolving as recycled PET is on the rise.

In the U.S. beverage market, consumers are seeing more of their favorite brands and companies partner to cross figurative lines by entering new categories through collaboration efforts.

Net-zero emissions is the name of the game, at least that’s the ideal that most engine manufacturers hope to achieve at some point by the middle of this century. For now, they’re all making incremental improvements to ensure that their systems run cleaner, greener and leaner.

Moving a burgeoning amount of SKUs from point A to point B has only gotten more complicated. Direct-store delivery (DSD) software and hardware solutions not only increases product traceability and sales, but provides on-demand simplicity and better customer service.

As today’s big mover in the protein-fortified beverage space is plant-based products, experts note that as consumer tastes and formulations have evolved, the marketplace has undergone tremendous shifts.

One of the most harshly impacted industries in the early days of the pandemic, on-premise has shown its ability to pivot. Data suggests that the channel has recovered from its early pain points with analysts predicting growth for on-premise.