Beverages

Beverage and RTD drinks category news for the convenience- store retail industry

Beverages

Coca-Cola, Pepsi Launch Stevia-Sweetened Drinks

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have both developed new sweeteners made from stevia, which just received "no-objection" status from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.

Beverages

MillerCoors to Rewire Sparks

Voluntarily removing caffeine from energy drink in deal with AGs

Suppliers, board set sites on reaching out to small retailers in 2009

Down economy causing refocus on its own products, R&D pipeline

Additive still awaiting FDA review

Products

"The World's Best Drinking Water" placed in more than 60 c-stores

Distributors seeking to prohibit supermarkets, c-stores from selling suds

5-Hour Energy to fuel Steve Wallace, Rusty Wallace Racing in 2009

Streamlining planned before takeover, company says

Recession fears have consumers "sticking to what they know," less likely to recall new products

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