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Portfolio expansion: Danone's evian moves into functional, flavored & rPET

Bottled water evian’s brand story goes back some 200 years: and over that time it’s been very much focused on its core natural mineral water. But this month it is expanding into new categories of sparkling flavored, functional and canned products with the launch of evian+.
Portfolio expansion only began in earnest in 2016 with the launch of evian Fruits + Plants. And since then, new launches have been focused around the brand’s core values: such as building on the water’s natural mineral content with added magnesium and zinc with functional beverage evian+ this month; and driving forward its sustainability ethos with 100% rPET, label-free bottles and designer glass bottles.

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'The sparkling water category is still in its infancy,' says Nixie Sparkling Water founder

'The sparkling water category is still in its infancy,' says Nixie Sparkling Water founder
The sparkling water category may seem crowded with products made by CPG giants and offerings from smaller, independently-owned brands, but the reality is that sparkling water is still just a small piece of the overall carbonated beverage category, says Nicole Bernard Dawes, founder of Nixie Sparkling Water.
"It’s only crowded because it’s not getting a proportionate share of the aisle yet," Dawes told FoodNavigator-USA.
"If you look at the $30bn carbonated beverage set, sparkling water is still just a tiny fraction of that, but it’s the fastest growing."

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'Lightly caffeinated': New water and juices offer afternoon pick-me-up

Free from added sugar, artificial flavors and with around half the amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee, Ocean Spray Wave – a caffeinated sparkling water with real fruit juice – is the latest drink meeting a trio of consumer demands of refreshment, energy, and health.
Caffeine is in vogue in the beverage category as a stimulant people know and understand – far different to artificial ingredients such as taurine in energy drinks or the demonized sugar in soda.
The growth of the RTD coffee category illustrates the rise of the mid-afternoon pick-me-up occasion – as does Coca-Cola’s launch of Coca-Cola with Coffee in the US this year – but brands such as Ocean Spray, Nestlé and PepsiCo are eying up the opportunity to bring more refreshing, cleaner caffeinated beverage profiles to market with their recent launches.

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Ardagh Metal Packaging to combine with Gores Holdings V

Ardagh’s metal packaging business will combine with Gore Holdings V to create an independent public company; which will apply to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Europe pledges to make beverage packaging fully circular by 2030

Europe pledges to make beverage packaging fully circular by 2030
UNESDA Soft Drinks Europe, a trade organization representing the non-alcoholic beverage sector, has set targets for European beverage packaging to be fully circular by 2030. This will be achieved by using rPET, refillable bottles, and boosting collection rates.
An interim goals is for 50% rPET by 2025, while the organization wants to see recycled or renewable material accounting for all PET by 2030.
UNESDA – which represents 23 national associations across Europe as well as counting Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Suntory and Nestlé among its members - says it supports the EU’s ambition of making Europe the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050 and building a circular economy.

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Nestlé sells Nestlé Waters North America for $4.3bn

Nestlé will sell its Nestlé Waters North America business – including brands Pure Life, Poland Spring, Deer Park, Ozarka and delivery service ReadyRefresh – to One Rock Capital Partners and Metropoulos & Co.

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Coca-Cola European Partners increases offer for Amatil

Coca-Cola European Partners increases offer for Amatil
Coca-Cola European Partners has upped its offer for Coca-Cola Amatil by 5.9%, noting an improved economic outlook in Australia and New Zealand.
CCEP has raised the offer to $9.93bn AUD ($7.7bn USD), up from its offer of AUD $9.28bn ($6.6bn) in October.
The offer has been raised thanks to stronger economic conditions and market outlook as Australia and New Zealand recover from the pandemic. CCEP has declared that this is its best and final offer.
Amatil Chairman Ilana Atlas said,
"The economic outlook for Australia and New Zealand has improved since the announcement of the original CCEP proposal and recent trading validates our strategy and demonstrates our strong recovery. The value of Amatil has increased and we are pleased that CCEP has acknowledged this in increasing its proposed cash consideration to Independent Shareholders.”

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Coca-Cola launches paper bottle trial in Hungary

Coca-Cola launches paper bottle trial in Hungary
Coca-Cola plant-based drink, AdeZ, will roll out 2,000 bottles of its paper prototype: marking the first market test for the innovation.
The paper bottle prototype design was unveiled last year; and will move into a market trial with the dairy-free smoothie brand this summer to see how the packaging performs and how consumers react.
The technology aims to create 100% recyclable bottles made of sustainably-sourced wood with a bio-based material barrier suitable for liquid goods, such as carbonated and still drinks.
The
current prototype consists of a paper shell with an rPET recyclable lining and cap. Ultimately, the goal is to develop a bottle without the plastic liner that can be recycled in the same way as paper.

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Cranberry category creation: Indian zero-alcohol beer pioneer on cultural challenges and fizzy drink mass market plans

Indian zero-alcohol beer pioneer Coolberg has highlighted culture and price challenges as the sector’s toughest hurdles to cross in the country, whilst also laying out plans to create a new category of fizzy drinks in hopes of drawing in the mass market.
Coolberg claims to be the first Indian brand to bring zero-alcohol beers into the market back in 2016, before big brand names like Buudweiser and Hoegaarden came into the picture, and remains one of the only brands to have multiple flavours of zero-alcohol beer to its name.
“At the time, the idea was to really build the zero-alcohol beer category into something fun and interesting, to give consumers bored of soft drinks a refreshing, healthier option to choose,” Coolberg CEO and Founder Pankaj Aswani told

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PepsiCo doubles climate goal, targets net-zero emissions by 2040

PepsiCo is targeting a reduction of absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its value chain by more than 40% by 2030. It is aiming for net-zero emissions by 2040.

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