MarketWatch Drinks - September 2011
Report description
The Drinks MarketWatch contains the latest news, analysis, and opinion, covering all the month's major issues including new products and innovations, mergers and acquisitions, and marketing and regulatory issues. It covers the period from July 15 to August 14 2011.Enhance your understanding of trends in the drinks industry by accessing the latest news and insight. Drive product ideation by studying the latest drinks industry innovations from around the world. Track competitor activity via the latest news on mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and company expansions. In this month's rundown of notable launches from the drinks industry, novel fruit flavors have come to the fore in the beer market. In other news, unusual fruit and vegetable combinations are being offered as part of a new smoothie line, while an aerosol soft drink is hoping to shake up the kids' drinks market. What have been the key developments and trends in the drinks industry in July and August 2011? What are the major new product and packaging developments in this sector that I need to be aware of?
Table of contents
DATAMONITOR VIEW•Catalyst
•Summary
INDUSTRY UPDATE
•News in brief
NEW PRODUCT REVIEW
•New drinks review: beer sees future in fruit
•Concentrates, July 2010 to June 2011: top flavors in new products in South and Central America
•New drink launches by category, April 2011 to June 2011: good things brewing for beer in South and Central America
•Product claims: new drinks launches in Europe, April to June 2011
INDUSTRY COMMENT
•Nestle: new bioplastic caps in Brazil fit well with consumer sentiment
•Budweiser: new-look cans unlikely to reverse falling sales
FEATURE ANALYSIS
•Wine now neck and neck with beer in the US
NEWS
•Headlines
Ball launches 8-ounce trim can
Suspend Spirits launches Tempest Soul
Legacy Rock and Meadow Gold Dairies to produce new bottled water products
Frucor Beverages appoints CEO of New Zealand
Magnotta Winery Q1 net earnings down
Miller Brands managing director to leave
Starbucks and Gist sign logistics partnership
New Age Beverage introduces Just Pure Water
Euro-Pacific Fuels Tech commences production and marketing of Protein Beer
Lipton launches Sustainable Tea Agriculture project in Turkey
KWV appoints acting CEO
Big Rock Brewery to launch Magpie Rye Ale
Backus to relaunch limited edition of Cusquena Red Lager
Soma Beverage launches new line of purified waters
Molson Coors to launch Animee beer
Coopers Brewery signs contract with Sapporo
Coca-Cola Q2 net income increases 18%
GLG Life Tech to launch zero calorie vitamin enriched waters in China
Smirnoff launches Coconut Flavored Vodka
Remy Cointreau Q1 turnover increases 22%
PepsiCo reports higher Q2 net income, provides guidance for 2011
New Belgium Brewing launches two new beers
Clos LaChance Winery launches new line of California Central Coast wines
McDonald's launches McCafeMango Pineapple Real Fruit Smoothie
Red Mango appoints new CEO
Pernod Ricard announces management changes
Smoothie King introduces Lean1 Smoothie
Dr Pepper Snapple reports lower Q2 net income, provides guidance for 2011
Hindustan Unilever Q1 net income increases 18%
Coca-Cola Enterprises reports higher Q2 net income, provides guidance for 2011
Starbucks reports higher Q3 profit, provides guidance for 2011
Vita Coco introduces Vita Coco Tropical Fruit flavor
Cott Q2 net income increases
AN0C receives approval to launch zero-calorie CSDs in China
Fortune Brands Q2 net income increases 44%
Davide Campari-Milano H1 net profit increases
Healthient introduces SmartShake
COMPANY SPOTLIGHT: CARLSBERG A/S
•Carlsberg: new PET pack targets impulse sales
•Business description
•SWOT analysis
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
APPENDIX
•Further reading
ABOUT MARKETWATCHES
•Editors
•Ask the analyst
•Disclaimer
TABLES
•Table: T op claims in new drinks launches in Europe, April 2011 to June 2011, and growth compared to April 2010 to June 2010
•Table: Key facts
•Table: SWOT analysis
FIGURES
•Figure: Hoegaarden 0,0 Alcohol Free White Beer
•Figure: Falke Bier Vivre Pour Vivre Ale-Style Beer
•Figure: Sunlover Beauty Drink
•Figure: Waitrose Love Life Smoothie – Kiwi, Apple, and Pear, Orange, Mango, and Pumpkin, and Red Pepper and Raspberry
•Figure: Turbo Tango Aerosol Soft Drink – Orange
•Figure: Glenmorangie Pride 1981 Single Malt Whisky
•Figure: Concentrates: top flavors in new products in South and Central America, July 2010 to June 2011
•Figure: Leading drinks launches by category in North America, April to June 2010 and April to June 2011
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By sector: Markets, General drinks
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