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Drinking habits for Super Bowl evolve

Female tastes alter adult beverage landscape
January 28, 2019

As Americans prepare to watch the Super Bowl this coming Sunday, they will be flocking to retail outlets for their food and beverage needs. According to an Insights from New York-based Nielsen titled “The Evolution of Super Bowl Consumption,” the market research firm identified how today’s viewing experience has evolved.

Nielsen details that the female fan base remains substantial, noting that it has held steady at about 46-47 percent of total viewership from Super Bowl XLVII in 2014 to Super Bowl LII in 2018.


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John Butcher Caribou Coffee CEO

Caribou Coffee names new CEO

John Butcher adds top executive role with foodservice company
January 22, 2019

Minneapolis-based Caribou Coffee, a subsidiary of JAB Holding Co., announced that John Butcher has been appointed president and chief executive officer. Butcher has served as president of Caribou Coffee since joining the company in June of 2017. 


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Stella Artois, Water.org partner with Sarah Jessica Parker

Actress reprises Carrie Bradshaw role in Pour it Forward campaign
January 22, 2019

Stella Artois, a brand Leuven, Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev, and Water.org co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White are rallying America to Pour it Forward by choosing Stella Artois to help end the global water crisis.


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Starbucks Delivers expands in US

Delivery initiatives powered by Uber Eats
January 22, 2019

Starbucks Coffee Co., Seattle, announced the expansion of its Starbucks Delivers pilot to an additional six cities across the United States. The expansion, in partnership with Uber Eats, began in San Francisco on Jan. 21, the first of six new markets to offer the service to customers. Following an initial test in Miami, the company remains on track to bring Starbucks Delivers to nearly one-quarter of U.S. company-operated stores.


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PepsiCo completes acquisition of SodaStream

Completed with $144 a share
January 17, 2019
The transaction is another step in PepsiCo’s Performance with Purpose journey, supporting health and wellness through environmentally friendly, cost-effective and fun-to-use beverage solutions, and the company’s Beyond the Bottle strategy to form a more sustainable beverage ecosystem, it says.
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Riff Cold Brewed Coffee opens taproom

Brand opens 3,700 square-foot taproom
January 17, 2019
The unique pilot brewing system enables Riff to produce small batch experimental cold-brewed coffees and get immediate feedback from customers on the other side of the bar.
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Brewers Association celebrates 2018 beer milestones

Association highlights defining moments
January 17, 2019
As craft brewers continue to make waves in an evolving market, the Brewers Association, Boulder, Colo., looked back on the craft brewing community’s contributions, highlights and defining beer moments of the past year.
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