US consumers paid more for promoted carbonated soft drinks during this year’s Fourth of July holiday than last year at five chains surveyed by BD. Using store promotional circulars, BD compiled promotions at stores in Chicago, Los Angeles, Louisville, Idaho Falls, and Miami, comparing them to deals from last year’s flyers. Both periods included the federal July 4th holiday. The Green Sheet with this story compiles promotions culled from the...

The sale process for bankrupt Bang Energy may finally be headed for a conclusion in late June after a two month delay. A bankruptcy judge in Florida has set a sale hearing date for June 30 to approve a winning bidder. That hearing date could yet be pushed back, however. According to BD sources, remaining bidders are...

Liquid refreshment beverage sales across all US measured and unmeasured channels in 2022 grew +0.9% by volume and +11.3% by value. The dollar growth — fueled by inflationary pricing as manufacturers offset higher operating and input costs... Tables included:

Table 1: U.S. LRB Category Volume and Dollar Performance 2022

PepsiCo’s Gatorade and Propel brands are diving into the beverage tablet segment made popular in recent years by Nestle-owned Nuun. Starting in June, the brands will offer dissolvable tablets in plastic tubes of ten that will go head-to-head with Nuun, which offers similarly-packaged functional tablets for everything from sport hydration and immunity to...

Beverage Digest is walking the show floor along with about 65,000 other attendees at Expo West in California this week. We'll investigate natural ingredient trends that could one day drive the growing and profitable functional packaged beverage market. We're also looking for what's new within existing ready-to-drink segments and product lines, and talking to the founders and leaders who propel the sector.

We'll share our observations in live updates here, so check back through the next couple of days.

Subscribers can email us if there is something specific you'd like to ask about. For those attending the show, feel free to send any noteworthy observations as well.