Articles by Jessica Jacobsen

SKU proliferation has made it more challenging for beverage brands to stand out on grocery shelves. To help combat this problem, beverage-makers are ensuring their label designs draw attention to their portfolio.

In the beverage market, hard seltzers were the star of new product development for a few years, but as the market has become more saturated, experts note that change might be in order as the beverage alcohol segment experiences deceleration from its years of growth.

The labor shortage impacting the warehouse and transportation sector is resulting in operations managers turning more to automation solutions like automated guided vehicles.

In the beverage market, brand owners are changing their strategies in terms of healthy beverages as consumers are looking beyond just physical health.

This year’s State of the Industry report on the U.S. wine and spirits markets highlights the impact that premiumization and health and wellness trends are having on these categories.

This year’s State of the Industry report on juice and juice drinks notes that the category sees increasing competition from emerging beverage categories and as such is looking to reimagine itself.

Beverage Industry provides an in-depth look into the performances and trends in the alcohol and non-alcohol categories within the last year. The report includes update statistics from Chicago-based Information Resources Inc. (IRI) as well as industry trends and forecasts into what’s next.

This year’s State of the Industry report on the U.S. beer market highlights the road to recovery the beverage alcohol category is navigating as consumers turn to novel innovations.

With health and wellness driving consumer purchases, beverage-makers are finding clean label and non-GMO a growing priority for today’s shoppers.

Beverage-makers looking to reduce the amount of single-use plastic for their products are adapting their secondary packaging approach.