Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), Leuven, Belgium, announced its commitment to 2025 sustainability goals focused on four areas: renewable electricity and carbon reduction, water stewardship, smart agriculture, and circular packaging.

As a start-up founded in 2009, El Segundo, Calif.-based L.A. Libations has shown through its insights and track record that the beverage brand creator and incubator is a captain in its own right.

Observations in the marketplace and visits to several beverage facilities continue to present a broad and unprecedented array of beverage products to consumers.

In Beverage Industry’s New Product Development Outlook 2017 Study, respondents indicated which trends they think will be the most popular in 2018.

Beverage-makers have more options than ever when it comes to flavors for developing new beverages.

Consumers’ desires for functional, healthy, yet refreshing beverages has placed a greater demand on manufacturers’ research and development (R&D) divisions.

The editors of Beverage Industry have analyzed the new beverage launches throughout 2017 and selected five brands that they think are driving innovation and energizing consumers.

When reading the Sunday paper last month (yes, I’m a millennial who gets a physical newspaper), my interest was piqued when learning about a new craft beer collaboration.

The tenth amendment of the U.S. Constitution states that outside of the powers delegated by the Constitution, states and their people possess the remaining power. Because of this, the U.S. alcohol sales laws can vary greatly from state to state; however, deregulation by states for various reasons is offering new opportunities for alcohol retailers but also is intensifying competition.

After a number of successful limited-time flavor innovations, Sprite, a brand of Atlanta-based The Coca-Cola Co., is adding two new cherry-flavored products to its beverage portfolio. Sprite Cherry is hitting store shelves nationwide in a 20-ounce PET bottle. The brand also is introducing Sprite Cherry Zero to give fans another zero-sugar and zero-calorie option, the company says. Both new options are caffeine-free and made with 100 percent natural flavors, it adds.