Articles by Jessica Jacobsen

“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.

For manufacturers of conveyor systems and supporting materials, sanitation measures have been driving the innovations emerging from this market.

In 2019, sales of legal cannabinoid-containing products in the U.S. generated between $12-$13 billion; however, cannabis-infused beverage account for between 1.5 and 3 percent of the greater cannabis market. Although still a small portion, analysts see potential for growth of this category should legal restrictions change.