While soda may have dominated shelves in the 1990s, today’s shoppers are seeking increasingly sophisticated functional beverages. Data company Kantar has analyzed consumer behavior in a new report that highlights the last three decades in the US beverage industry... Read

Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I will remove plastic rings from all its products by the end of 2020, as part of a £6.3m investment in green technology which includes new paperboard ‘Keel Clip’ packaging... Read

Public Health England’s latest progress report on the food and drink industry’s sugar cutting efforts reveal significant changes in areas where the sugar tax applies, but a disappointing lack of progress with the voluntary sugar reduction programme... Read

Coca-Cola European Partners says it will remove 4,000 tonnes of single-use plastic by replacing shrink wrap on its multipacks with cardboard... Read

On September 25, 1819, Reverend Samuel Marsden planted the first vines in New Zealand. ‘New Zealand promises to be very favourable to the vine… should it succeed, it will prove of vast important in this part of the globe’, he prophesied. With the industry now a NZ $1.83bn ($1.17bn USD) export earner, his prediction has been more than fulfilled... Read

From coffee kombucha to algae drinks, we take a look at some of the new products hitting the shelves around the globe... Read

Australia’s Carlton & United Breweries has acquired Adelaide-based Riot Wine Co, a company which sells wine exclusively in kegs and cans... Read