Technology Boosts Coke’s Marketing Effectiveness Up to +300%
December 22, 2025
Technology Boosts Coke’s Marketing Effectiveness Up to +300%
Keurig Dr Pepper Hires from Oracle, Google
Brand AI Agents Assist KDP Marketers on Packaging, Advertising, Sales
Beverage Digest hosted on-stage conversations with the global CMOs of both Coca-Cola and Keurig Dr Pepper during its Future Smarts conference in New York on Dec. 15. The thrust of the discussion centered on digital technology — including artificial intelligence — in marketing operations, data-driven...
Several countries across the Americas hold the highest per capita consumption rates for carbonated soft drinks (CSD), according to BD analysis of 2025 estimates by researcher Euromonitor. Mexico posted the highest per capita soda consumption for retail stores and fountain/foodservice locations combined, at...
Tractor Beverage announced the coming launch of a canned organic apple cider vinegar-based sparkling tonic called Haymaker at Sprouts Farmers Market in January. This is Tractor’s first...
How Should Executives, Investors, and Government Officials Respond?
In a new report called “The Great Recalibration: Forces of Exponential Change,” researchers at RBC Capital Markets including beverages analyst Nik Modi defined five new...
KDP’s Energy Portfolio featuring Ghost, C4 Posts Higher Retail Sales
A three-way battle for energy drink supremacy is emerging at US retail, according to BD data. Monster Energy, Red Bull, and Celsius Energy accounted for 70% of category volume sales during the first nine months of 2025, as shown in the Green Sheet. Monster Beverage’s energy brands...
Energy Category Volume and Dollar Sales Jump in First Nine Months of 2025
November 19, 2025
KDP’s Energy Portfolio featuring Ghost, C4 Posts Higher Retail Sales
A three-way battle for energy drink supremacy is emerging at US retail, according to BD data. Monster Energy, Red Bull, and Celsius Energy accounted for 70% of category volume sales during the first nine months of 2025, as shown in the Green Sheet. Monster Beverage’s energy brands...
Brand Slowed as Aggressive Immigration Enforcement Dampened Hispanic Consumer Demand
November 19, 2025
Category Dollars Grew +4.3% at US Retail. Volume Fell Slightly
PepsiCo’s CSD Portfolio Lost Share. KDP’s Portfolio Gained
The Coca-Cola Co’s surprising carbonated soft drink (CSD) decline, driven by brand Coke, continued into the third quarter of 2025 at US retail as the Trump Administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement kept Hispanic consumers away from stores and some consumers ...
Industry Pushing Back; Seeks Federal Solution During Grace Period
November 19, 2025
Legal Expert Doesn’t Expect Pending Ban to Kill Fast-Growing Hemp THC Sector
The agreement to open the US government last week included a potential beverage industry casualty — hemp-based THC drinks. As part of the deal, Congress and President Donald Trump closed a loophole embedded in the 2018 agriculture act that previously legalized hemp farming. Last week’s law will effectively ban hemp-based THC drinks a year from now, following a grace period. The loophole in the 2018 act has unintentionally led to the proliferation of ready-to-drink canned beverages infused with psychoactive hemp-based THC, mostly by way of a cannabinoid called Delta-9. Manufacturers have...