The top coffee trends to watch in 2026
Innovation in coffee is moving fast: How can brands get ahead in the booming market?
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Beer 3.0: The new frontier where craft pushes boundaries
For many years, the craft movement defined beer innovation: but younger drinkers are looking for products to call their own. How can the beer category respond?
Celebrity brands making waves in alcohol-free
Elton John, Lewis Hamilton, Tom Holland and Katy Perry are among the celebs finding success with alcohol-free brands
Heineken CEO steps down
Heineken CEO Dolf van den Brink will step down in May. A search for his successor is under way
Mythbusting Dry January: What brands need to know about the alcohol-free movement
Think you know Dry January? Think again. The movement is now a worldwide phenomenon: yet it’s not always completely understood...
Medjool dates, saffron and cardamon seeds: Entrepreneur creates flavorful functional alternative to traditional milkshakes
Finance professional turned food entrepreneur Masuma Zahara Bukhari brings an exotic flair to the fast-growing functional dairy-free category
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What’s brewing at Heineken? Behind the scenes with the R&D chief
Hubert te Braake already had the dream job: as director of research and development at Heineken, he’s tasked with creating the world’s next big brews. Now he’s been given a shiny new €45m ($53m) lab to do it from
Who is Henrique Braun, Coca-Cola’s next CEO?
Henrique Braun will become the beverage giant’s new CEO in March next year
Coca-Cola names new CEO
Executive vice president and chief operating officer Henrique Braun will take over as CEO of The Coca-Cola Company: succeeding James Quincey, who has led the drinks giant for nine years.
‘A mandate for innovation’: R&D is back at the top of the agenda with UK sugar tax shake up
The UK will extend its sugar tax to include more drinks, including milk-based products. Businesses have two options: take the financial hit - or get back into the lab and innovate