Recent news that big soda companies like PepsiCo and the Coca-Cola Co., Inc. are planning to take price increases to compensate for supplier costs has left smaller companies wondering how they should keep up.
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Juice: Halfway Home; Stevia Blends Start to Fit In
It seemed like a perfect fit: an all-natural zero-calorie sweetener, the first of its kind, cutting into the sugar and calories of juices without losing any of the sweetness.
Even with their complementary natural auras, stevia-sweetened mid-calorie and low-calorie juices been were slow to get off the ground. But it looks like they’ve finally arrived.
A Sticky Problem: Obesity Rates are Up, Sugar Consumption is Down
Americans drink too many sugary drinks, if you buy the exhaustive coverage of the obesity problem in the United States. But 50 percent of Americans don’t drink sugary drinks on a daily basis at all, if you buy another study. So what’s the story?
Coke to Invest $4 Billion in China
Beginning in 2012, the Coca-Cola Co., Inc. will invest $4 billion in China over a three-year period for new infrastructure and capabilities, partnerships, brand building and the development of new products, according to an article on rttnews.com.
5-Hour Energy Takes Lawsuit Against On Go Energy Shot to Federal Court
Innovation Ventures LLC, the makers of 5-Hour Energy, are claiming $90,000 in damages over stolen trade secrets in a U.S. District Court lawsuit against Aspen Fitness Inc., which makes On Go Energy Shot, according to an article on crainsdetroit.com.
The Company Nobody Wants to Admit they Call
The employees of Parallel Products have turned the old adage inside out. To them, one man’s trash is another man’s… ethanol?
The Louisville, Ky-based company turns discarded beverages that didn’t quite work out — either in the co-packer’s facility or on-shelf — into the desired, industrial-grade ethanol by distillation.