Kobe Bryant Tragedy. The Jan. 26 helicopter crash death of ex-NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, along with Bryant’s daughter and seven other people, hit close to home for Bodyarmor and the company’s minority investor, Coca-Cola...

Stevia-maker PureCircle named Peter Lai Hock Meng (pictured right) as its new CEO starting March 2. The appointment comes during an unresolved accounting probe dating back to mid-November...

Plus, people moves in the industry...

Longtime Coca-Cola board director Ron Allen will retire from the post in April after 29 years and six CEOs; Allen was formerly the Chairman and CEO of Delta Airlines in Coke’s hometown, Atlanta … Coca-Cola North America has named Brazil Marketing VP

PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta has joined the board of directors for credit card company Visa … Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi was recently honored with a portrait in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery along with dignitaries including Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos...

Honest Tea’s Seth Goldman said he’s leaving the organic beverage company he founded almost 22 years ago. In a Nov. 14 blog post, Goldman said he will step down as TeaEO Emeritus of Honest at the end of this year to focus on a new venture

McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook has resigned after acknowledging a consensual relationship with an employee that violated company policy. The executive also resigned from Walmart’s board of directors. He was replaced by former PepsiCo and Kraft Heinz executive

Coca-Cola North America Sparkling Business Unit President Stuart Kronauge, who is leaving the company in January, has been named...

PepsiCo has named Simon Lowden as the company’s first chief sustainability officer. He previously served as president of the company’s Global Foods Group.

Plus more beverage industry executive moves.