Among Priorities, Cofer Looks to Add Scale to Owned DSD Network.

Gamgort Offers View of Dr Pepper Territories Handled by Coke and Pepsi.

In RTD Coffee, Execs See Chance to ‘Carve Out a Space.’

Full Ownership Not Requirement in Partnership Deals.

Distribution of Athletic Possible?

Plus: Dr Pepper Reaches Milestone in 2023.

Keurig Dr Pepper has a new leader. The company’s board promoted COO Tim Cofer to CEO on April 26 as planned and appointed him to the board. He succeeds...

PepsiCo Unit Renamed Blue Cloud National.

Hard Mtn Dew Producer Boston Beer, Lipton Hard Iced Tea Maker FIFCO to Retain Roles.

In May, Boston Beer will begin expanding Hard Mtn Dew to 50 states using its beer distribution network, the brewer said last week. As BD reported last week in an exclusive news alert, PepsiCo is shifting its...

Proposal Seen by Some as ‘Slippery Slope’ for Direct Store Delivery.
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo Emphasizing Premium and Immediate Consumption Water

Serious discussions are underway in the US Coke and Pepsi systems about plans to ship Dasani and Aquafina case pack bottled water to Walmart by warehouse delivery instead of...

During Beverage Digest’s recent Future Smarts conference in New York, Editor & Publisher Duane Stanford conducted on-stage interviews with two of the largest independent PepsiCo and Coca-Cola bottlers in the US, Matthew Dent and Dave Katz. Below are key takeaways from those discussions.

Matthew Dent
President & CEO
Buffalo Rock

PRICING GROWTH OUTLOOK. “There's going to have to be a study around the effect on elasticities during the pandemic and what that did for our products,” Dent said, adding that price elasticities are

Coke, Pepsi Bottlers Split on 2024 Volume Performance.

An informal Beverage Digest survey found that US Coke and Pepsi bottlers are expecting carbonated soft drink volume to range from down...

Keurig Dr Pepper has agreed to distribute the fast-growing sports drink brand Electrolit starting in 2024, the companies announced this morning. The long-term deal with Mexico-based Grupo Pisa gives KDP significant access to the...