PEPSI CENTER BECOMES BALL ARENA. Aluminum can maker Ball has bought naming rights for the home of the Denver Nuggets professional basketball team and the Colorado Avalanche professional hockey team. The facility, formerly called...
Industry's ‘Every Bottle Back’ Initiative Reaches 10 Cities After Year of Work
November 2, 2020
Consistent recycling messages on PET plastic bottles distributed by competing US beverage companies is now expected to rollout by early next year, according to American Beverage Association President and CEO Katherine Lugar. The effort is part of the Every Bottle Back plastic waste reduction initiative announced one year ago by Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Keurig Dr Pepper under the direction of the ABA. The voluntary on-pack language will...
Trump Best on Free-Enterprise, Biden Best on Pandemic, Bottlers Say
November 2, 2020
Tomorrow, voters will go to the polls to elect the next President of the United States. Beverage bottlers will watch the results as closely as anyone, to assess the potential impact to the industry’s bottom line during the next four years. With that in mind, BD asked bottling system executives to answer a simple question: “Who do you hope wins the presidency, and why?”...
Molson Coors Beverage Company announced its first slate of non-alcoholic beverage launches since changing its name late last year to replace “Brewing.” Get this news, plus a fast-paced collection of news from around the industry, both in the US and abroad.
SodaStream collaborated with the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Israel to produce an oxygen machine for COVID-19 patients with mild to moderate condition; the device is called StreamO2 …
COKE 2Q RESULTS. On July 21, Coca-Cola reported second-quarter results that were heavily impacted by the COVID-19 global pandemic. Organic revenue declined...
While Congress debates the extension of $600-a-week pandemic related unemployment benefits, an informal survey of US beverage distributors finds little support for continuing the Cares Act payments when they expire this week. In general, distribution executives say they...