Articles by Jessica Jacobsen

Although current health trends have placed greater emphasis on immune-boosting ingredients, beverage-makers have been fueling this trend for years.

As consumers and brand owners show the ever-increasing priority that sustainability has commanded, label suppliers are working to address this need state.

The functional benefits associated with energy drinks have helped it attain the status it has today, but experts note diversification will take the category further.

“Real” ingredients from nature are helping beverage-makers deliver clean-label solutions.

Through its diverse portfolio of lemonades, limeades and teas, King Juice Co. Inc. is refreshing consumers as its Calypso portfolio brings the “Taste of the Islands” to consumers’ homes.

Although sales for the coconut and other plant waters market might be down for the five-year period of 2014-2019, brands are innovating their lines to help bring the category more mainstream.

The packaging world is doing its part to help make recycling easier through ink solutions that support the recycling process.

Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the beverage market had seen a lot of mergers and acquisitions among beverage wholesalers as well as continuous SKU proliferation from beverage manufacturers. Because of these trends, many beverage operations are turning to new facility builds to ease the pain.

As the ELD mandate took effect in late 2019, beverage distributors were quick to adopt telematics solutions, which have seen benefits go beyond compliance.