Best Low/No Sugar Drink - Joint Winners sponsored by WET Group (Beverages)
BA Sports Nutrition LLC - BODYARMOR LYTE Sports Drink
Nestlé Waters North America - Sanpellegrino Momenti
Best Premium Drink
Sweet Reason Bev Co - CBD-Infused Sparkling Water
Best Functional Drink
PepsiCo - Mtn Dew Amp Game Fuel
Best Technology Innovation sponsored by PureCircle
The Coca-Cola Company - DASANI PureFill 2.0
Best Packaging Design
Nestlé Waters North America - S.Pellegrino 120 Anniversary
Best New Drink Concept
DONA - DONA Spice Sodas
Best Label Design
Nestlé Waters North America - S.Pellegrino Essenza
Best Marketing/Social Media Campaign sponsored by Reflective Shopper Worldwide
The Coca-Cola Company - New Coke x Stranger Things Partnership
Best New Brand/Brand Extension
PepsiCo - Mtn Dew Amp Game Fuel
Best Functional Drink
· ALOHA – Plant-based protein drink
· BA Sports Nutrition LLC – BODYARMOR Sports Drink
· Huel – Huel
· NEXT Proteins, Inc – Sparkling Beauty
· OATH – OATH, oat-milk based protein drink
· PepsiCo – Mtn Dew Amp Game Fuel
Best Low/No Sugar Drink sponsored by WET Group (Beverages)
· BA Sports Nutrition LLC – BODYARMOR LYTE Sports Drink
· Flow Alkaline Spring Water – Flow Alkaline Spring Water
· Nestlé Waters North America – Sanpellegrino Momenti
· Sweet Reason Co – CBD-Infused Sparkling Water
· VYBES Los Angeles – VYBES
Best Premium Drink
· ALOHA – Plant-based protein drink
· Nestlé Waters North America – S.Pellegrino Essenza
· OATH – OATH, oath-milk based protein drink
· Sweet Reason Co – CBD-Infused Sparkling Water
· VYBES Los Angeles – VYBES
Best Packaging Design
· Body Surf Brands, Inc – Body Surf Organic Infused Water
· Nestlé Waters North America – Poland Spring ORIGIN
· Nestlé Waters North America – S.Pellegrino 120 Anniversary
· Nestlé Waters North America – Perrier ARTXTRA
· NEXT Proteins, Inc – Sparkling Beauty
· PepsiCo – Mtn Dew Amp Game Fuel
Best Label Design
· Glanbia Performance Nutrition – AMIN.O ENERGY + ELECTROLYTES
· Nestlé Waters North America – S.Pellegrino Essenza
· Nestlé Waters North America – Perrier ARXTRA
· PSR Brands – P10 RTD LINE
· VYBES Los Angeles - VYBES
Best Technology Innovation
· PSR Brands – P10 MAX HYDRATION
· The Coca-Cola Company – DASANI PureFill 2.0
· Uno – Uno
· WET Group (Beverages) – Activated Enhanced System
Best Marketing/Social Media Campaign Sponsored by Reflective Shopper Worldwide
· Essentia Water, LLC – Essentia Water
· Nestlé Waters North America – Acqua Panna #InstaMeetMeHere
· PepsiCo – Mtn Dew Amp Game Fuel
· The Coca-Cola Company – New Coke x Stranger Things Partnership
Best New Brand/Brand Extension
· ALOHA – Plant-based protein drink
· Nestlé Waters North America – S.Pellegrino Essenza
· OATH – OATH, oat-milk based protein drink
· PepsiCo – Mtn Dew Amp Game Fuel
· The Coca-Cola Company – Orange Vanilla Coca-Cola
· WET Group (Beverages) – tALK Water
Best New Drink Concept
· Dirty Lemon – DIRTY LEMON +greens
· DONA – DONA Spice Sodas
· NEXT Proteins, Inc – Sparkling Beauty
· OATH – OATH, oat-milk based protein drink
· Soylent – Soylent Stacked
· WET GROUP (Beverages) – WECAN SMILE
Beverage Digest’s awards celebrate excellence across the North American beverage industry.
These awards are a great way for you to enhance the promotion of your brand and ensure your products are recognized on an international scale.
Beverage Digest will announce the winners during an awards ceremony at this year's Future Smarts conference on December 9 in New York.
The cost is $225 per entry and every fourth entry is free!
Entry deadline: November 11th, 2019 for both the payment and award application.
Enter multiple categories or products (each entry is one product with one category).
All products entered must have been launched/created/rebranded from January 2017 onwards. If you have a product that is not yet in the market, it can still be entered as long as they are in their prototype/packaging stage by the closing date of this awards scheme.
To download the full award guidelines and criteria, please click HERE.
While we would be very pleased to see you at Future Smarts, attendance is not a condition of entering the awards.
What is required:
*If you are entering either Best Marketing or Social Media Campaign, you qualify for 3 x slides of content.
Steps to enter:
Our panel of industry experts will independently review each submission against the judging criteria. They will score each entry on a scale of 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest) for each criterion and offer feedback or comments. Scores are then collated to reveal the finalists and winners in each category.
We have a number of opportunities available including for headline sponsorships and individual category sponsorships.
Headline sponsorship includes:
One full delegate place at the Beverage Digest Future Smarts conference. Excludes accommodation and VAT.
The opportunity to present one winner with their award at the awards reception.
Company logo on all awards marketing material between now and the event.
Company logo on the awards page of Zenith Global’s website with a hyperlink to your company homepage.
The sponsor will always be referenced in the category title e.g. Best Low/No Sugar Drink sponsored by Company X.
Regular mentions in social media when promoting the awards.
Category sponsorship includes:
The opportunity to present the winner with their award at the awards reception.
Company logo on all awards marketing material between now and the event.
Company logo on the awards page of Zenith Global's website with a hyperlink to your company homepage.
The sponsor will always be referenced in the category title e.g. Best Low/No Sugar Drink sponsored by Company X.
All packages can also include a number of discounted delegate places to the Beverage Digest Future Smarts conference, as well as pre- and post-event social media and marketing exposure.
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