Green Sheet Details Corporate, Top-10 Brand Performance
June 7, 2021
Consumers continued to turn to carbonated soft drinks at US groceries and convenience stores during the first quarter of this year as many restaurants, workplaces, and foodservice venues remained closed or under limited use following the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. At US retail, carbonated soft drink (CSD) volume...
Annually, BD publishes estimated volume and value sales data for the US liquid refreshment beverages (LRB) market, as well as categories including carbonated soft drinks (CSD), and energy drinks. The data included in this special issue estimates beverage consumption for all measured and unmeasured channels, including packaged retail, fountain, and vending. This report focuses on single-serve, direct-store- delivered (DSD) beverages. The fountain channel includes everything from restaurants, such as McDonald’s and Taco Bell, to sports venues.
Plus: IRI Sees Return To Parity Between At-Home And Away-From Home Food Sales
April 30, 2021
Plus: IRI Sees Return To Parity Between At-Home And Away-From Home Food Sales. Late in the first quarter of this year, US soft drink retail sales begin to cycle the impact of pandemic-related pantry loading last year. To get a baseline understanding of the extent to which elevated retail sales are sticking now that pandemic lockdowns are easing, BD compared data from the first quarter of 2021 to the first quarter of 2019 (instead of 2020).
Walmart, Costco Decline as Target, Kroger Outperform YTD 2021
April 30, 2021
Walmart, Costco Decline as Target, Kroger Outperform YTD 2021. Pandemic-related uncertainty this year has weighed on beverage stocks tracked by BD through the close of trading on April 27. Most, including...
Higher pricing has helped beverage makers offset volume declines against unusually high comparisons generated by last year’s pandemic-driven consumer stock up. US all- channel retail data...
Convenience Channel Shows Improvement as Mobility Increases
April 1, 2021
In BD’s March 18 edition, BD flagged the possibility of swings in category and channel performance once US syndicated data cycled pandemic-related pantry loading from a year ago. As lockdowns lift, new data suggests...
Almost two years after acquiring Muscle Milk maker CytoSport, PepsiCo is leaning into yet another brand that came over in that deal. Plant-based protein shake Evolve...