Keurig Dr Pepper executives sees significant potential for innovation and more premiumization across hot and cold beverage categories to drive sales, volume and consumer engagement in the coming year – brushing off mounting rumors about a potential recession...
The outlook for the C-Store channel is “encouraging” with many manufacturers innovating around protein, flavors, clean labels, and functional benefits, says Wells Fargo Securities senior analyst Bonnie Herzog.
Are brands misleading shoppers by using the term ‘diet’ to describe soda sweetened with high intensity sweeteners such as aspartame? The argument – outlined in lawsuits vs the makers of Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi and Diet Dr Pepper - is a “stretch,” according...
Check out who’s moving onwards and upwards at General Mills/Annie’s, PepsiCo, Bai Brands, JM Smucker, Mondelez, Campbell Soup, Beanfields Snacks and Tyson Foods in FoodNavigator-USA’s latest round-up of new hires in food and beverage.
As widely rumored, two major players in the functional beverages space are to change hands, with PepsiCo to acquire KeVita for an undisclosed sum and Dr Pepper Snapple Group to acquire Bai Brands – in which it already has a small stake – for $1.7bn. And...
Dr Pepper Snapple CEO Larry Young insists Dr Pepper will always be a priority, despite the brand’s decline against growth of some of the group’s other beverages.
Dr Pepper Snapple’s TEN platform ‘continues to decelerate’ in the US and many C-store operators are suggesting that they plan to pull the line from shelves and coolers, one analyst warns.
PepsiCo was the biggest loser in US carbonated soft drinks in 2013, according to Beverage Digest, with worrying volume and market share loss data contrasting sharply with Monster’s stellar sales.
Diet soda sales remain in a funk according to the latest Nielsen data, with dollar sales in the four weeks to March 15 plunging 7.3%. Regular soda fared somewhat better (+ 0.6%), while energy drinks (+8.3%) and sparkling water (+26.2%) continued to steam...
What do RMS Titanic, Dr Pepper’s snake-inspired wastewater treatment plant and Champagne-sipping rodents have in common? They all made our front page in 2013!
Dr Pepper Snapple (DPS) CEO Larry Young says he is ‘shocked’ by the summer slowdown in diet soda that also hit his firm's North American sales and partly blames misperceptions of aspartame.
If current trends continue, carbonated soft drinks volumes could decline 15-20% by 2020 driven by sharp declines in diet variants, predicts Wells Fargo. But why have Americans fallen out of love with diet soda, and what are they drinking instead?
Dr Pepper TEN risks sharing the fate of ‘countless other’ product extensions’ that fail to cut it as independent brands, given declining distribution in the US C-store channel, one analyst warns.
Dr Pepper Snapple (DPS) CEO Larry Young insists US retailers are working hard with his firm to develop a ‘better-for-you’ carbonates platform, and said Royal Crown Cola Ten’s initial success was a ‘pleasant surprise’.
Lawyers for David Green - a California man who has accused Dr Pepper Snapple Group of making false and misleading claims about 7UP's (now defunct) ‘antioxidant’ drinks - argue it is attempting to “hide behind the law of federal preemption” in its...
Dr Pepper Snapple (DPS) is extending its TEN soda platform by introducing low calorie versions of five of its top soft drinks brands this month, and insists that Dr Pepper TEN is sustaining strong trial and repeat purchase rates.
Dr Pepper Snapple CEO Larry Young has urged patience on the firm’s new mid-calorie TEN portfolio, as analysts quizzed him on whether the brand was cannibalizing regular Dr Pepper sales, down 2% in Q3 2012.
Dr Pepper has incited fury among Creationist Christians, after posting a Facebook poster showing the ‘evolution of flavor’ for its flagship brand, in a tongue-in-cheek twist on the evolutionary 'March of Progress’.
Dr Pepper Snapple Group's net income fell year-on-year in Q1 2012 with a marked slump in non-carbonate sales, although Dr Pepper TEN drove higher carbonates sales, with the firm hinting at further launches on this platform in 2013.
The CEO and president of Dr Pepper claims that all the evidence thus far signals that customers are 'thrilled to death' with the firm’s controversial new ‘men-only’ low-calorie drink Dr Pepper Ten.
Diet soda is ladylike but low-calorie soda is manly. It might seem like a subtle difference, but that’s the only thing that’s subtle about the blundering marketing campaign for Dr. Pepper Ten.
Dr Pepper Snapple’s (DPS's) new Dr Pepper Ten drink for ‘men only’ will find favour with its young male target audience in the US, according to a Euromonitor analyst.
A Texas-based bottling company said it is prepared to challenge beverage giant Dr Pepper Snapple over a claim that the license agreement for its beverage product is being violated by the small firm.
National brand sodas are more likely to contain higher levels of
caffeine than their store brand counterparts, according to a new
study, which suggests that manufacturers should label caffeine
content to help consumers make more informed...
