America’s leading beverage companies — The Coca-Cola Co., Keurig Dr Pepper and PepsiCo — announced the launch of the Every Bottle Back initiative, an effort to reduce the industry’s use of new plastic by making significant investments to improve the collection of the industry’s valuable plastic bottles so they can be made into new bottles.

TrueRoots Brewing Co. launched TrueRoots Ginger Beer, a ready-to-drink (RTD) beverage made from cold-pressed ginger and fresh lime juice. 

PepsiCo Inc., Purchase, N.Y., has priced the company's first ever Green Bond. The net proceeds from the $1 billion Green Bond offering will fund a series of key initiatives to advance PepsiCo's sustainability agenda, it says. The company also announced that it has named PepsiCo leader Simon Lowden as its first chief sustainability officer. In this new role, effective immediately, Lowden will be responsible for leading PepsiCo's Sustainability Office, including the Global Sustainable Plastics team and Global Sustainable Operations team.

Keurig Dr Pepper, Plano, Texas, announced that “Fansville,” the Dr Pepper parody TV show drama, returned in time for the 2019-2020 college football season.

Beverage Industry provides an in-depth look into the performances and trends in the alcohol and non-alcohol categories within the last year.

PepsiCo Inc., Purchase, N.Y., reported results for the second quarter 2019.

GuS Soda, a brand of Utmost Brands, Inc., introduced a new line of 30 calorie Ginger Ales.