Consumers are buying private label beverages at a growing rate.
Private label beverage categories such as canned and bottled tea,
shelf-stable fruit juices and nectars, iced coffee, sports and energy
drink mixes and carbonated soft drinks have all experienced
double-digit sales growth in the past year.
Monarch Beverage Co.’s new 500,000-square-foot facility on the northeast side of Indianapolis contains 475,000 square feet of warehouse space and a new automated case picking system.
Black currant, a fruit Americans were once banned from growing, now is the lead ingredient in CurrantC, a line of nationally distributed black currant nectars.
With consumers’ quest to lose weight, beverage-makers have been formulating weight management products and consider beverages a desirable format to deliver these ingredients.