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Monster vs RedBull in Spain

I’ve written several blogs about Monster energy drink catching up with and overtaking Red Bull in the United States. Now it’s happening in Spain as well.  …

Emerging Markets Ali Khan-Bajauri: Is there a short-cut to Brand Building?

In a mature-developed regulated economy, the MOST critical aspect of brand building will always be marked by Consumer TRUST and credibility of Brand …

Soft Drinks most Social

Of the top 100 food, drink and other grocery brands in Britain, soft drinks are leading the way, according to analysis of Facebook and Twitter engagement in …

Seeing the full UK potential of protein?

Once a market dominated by macho looking black and silver sports nutrition jars, protein is finding its relevance and role across many categories.  Protein …

The future of beverage industry is online

Total groceries sales in USA for 2013 was $600 billion worth. While online groceries market size was less than 1% which is less than $6 billion (Source …

Record 62 Acquisitions in September

September was a record month for food and drink sector transactions, with 62 listed on the bevblog.net database including 19 in the first 4 days alone. 8 …

Packaging Breakthrough

PET has transformed the bottled water and carbonated soft drinks markets.  It has had less success with beer, fruit drinks and milk. Now Sidel has come up …

French revolution in waters

France is regarded by many as the cradle of natural mineral water.  Yet spring water has now overtaken mineral water in retail sales volume, according to the …

The 5 must of your successful F&B concept

  Vision, Branding, Standards, Marketing, Technology Everybody can have a brilliant idea and the most of the times it can be transformed in a business …

Top functional beverage ingredients of 2014

Functional ingredients might be divided in many fields. I will try to observe the most important ones. Sweeteners. As now it is becoming more popular having …