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IRI launches CPG Inflation Tracker to track weekly changes

Prices for beverage alcohol and beverages up compared with last year
May 8, 2020

Chicago-based Information Resources Inc. (IRI) announced the launch of the IRI CPG Inflation Tracker on its free, online COVID-19 Data Dashboard. The new tool provides a standard metric for tracking weekly price-per-unit changes for consumer packaged goods compared with the year-ago period across departments, including fixed and random weight products, grocery aisles and retail formats.


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Animal Strikes

Lytx data show driving risk changes during pandemic

Animal strikes by vehicles up since shelter-in-place guidelines, data finds
May 7, 2020
Fleet video telematics provider Lytx, San Diego, shared new insights about changes in driving risk tied to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated guidelines to help control the spread of the virus.
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IRI COVID-19 April 30 Report

Consumer shopping trips remain up, IRI data shows

Basket sizes for frozen foods, packaged foods and beverages up vs. 2019
May 5, 2020

For the United States, sales trends remain slightly elevated as total store sales are up 4.1 percent, according to IRI data. Total non-edible sale are relatively flat (up 0.8 percent), while total edible sales are up 5.1 percent.


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Kombucha Heal-In

Kombucha Brewers International unveils give back program

Kombucha Heal-In helps deliver kombucha to frontline workers
May 5, 2020

Kombucha Brewers International (KBI), Los Angeles, has rallied the industry for a giveback program to help healthcare workers and food banks throughout the United States. The Kombucha Heal-In is a week-long initiative from May 5-11, with the goal of providing 100,000 bottles of kombucha to those on the frontlines as a way to protect and provide resilience for these most vulnerable populations, it says.


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Industry Issues

Events are rescheduled for fall 2020, spring 2021

May 5, 2020
BNP Media, the parent company to Beverage Industry, has been monitoring the evolving situation around COVID-19/Coronavirus, which is rapidly changing. The health and safety of its attendees, sponsors, vendors and staff at its events remains a top priority.
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High Noon Lime and Peach

High Noon Hard Seltzer adds flavors, teams with Barstool Sports

Lime, Peach flavors added to spirit-crafted hard seltzer brand
May 4, 2020

Modesto, Calif.-based E. & J. Gallo's High Noon Hard Seltzer announced the addition of two new flavors to their portfolio: Lime and Peach. As the brand prepares for summer, High Noon also announced a media partnership with Barstool Sports, a next-generation sports media company.


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Brockmans Gin MyBrocktail

Brockman Gin launches program to support bartenders

#MyBrocktail Tip Program offers weekly tips as part of virtual cocktail challenge
May 1, 2020

New York-based Brockmans Gin and its team understands the restaurant and bar community in the United States and around the world is struggling through the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.


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Food, beverage access concerns declining, study finds

Consumer Brands Association weekly study shows consumers report continued trust in CPG industry
April 29, 2020

New results released today by the Consumer Brands Association, Arlington, Va., show that in the survey’s eighth week, Americans have settled into pandemic life, feeling less concerned about the coronavirus but believing that the government will move to reopen the country sooner than it should.


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