Startup brand Mortal Kombucha also introduced Mortal Power, a soda line made with prebiotics and varying functionalities including caffeine, collagen and electrolytes. The new functional line moves the brand past turmeric exclusivity and now features three SKUs: Zesty Lemon Spicy Ginger with turmeric and cinnamon, Blood Orange Passion Fruit with amalaki, and Lavender Vanilla with ashwagandha.įollowing a familiar naming convention, TEAONIC debuted a new line extension dubbed Fresh Pop, but moved away from gut health to offer three flavors with immunity, detox and “chill” functions. retail launch.Įlsewhere, wellness beverage brand Turveda showcased a comprehensive rebrand as the company pivoted its entire line from glass bottled tonics to become a canned “Prebiotic Super Soda.” President and co-founder Dev Chakrabarty described the new products as if “Olipop and VIVE Wellness Shots had a baby,” while citing Asian-inspired sparkling water brand Sanzo as a point of reference for its focus on Indian and Asian ingredients. The sodas are currently available nationwide in Canada and will accompany five of the brand’s top selling juices in the U.S.
via Sprouts stores in April, displayed its new line of probiotic sparkling sodas, available in Clementine, Ginger and Strawberry flavors. Mission Loop, a Canadian cold-pressed juice brand now making the leap into the U.S. As well, Humm Kombucha showcased its previously announced probiotic soda and seltzer line front and center at its booth where CEO Matt Witherell said the line is already performing well online, with its seltzer offerings outpacing the sodas. Meanwhile, on the Expo West show floor, various different beverage trends were apparent, including a slate of new entrants to the rapidly developing gut health friendly functional soda space.īrands including TEAONIC, Mortal Kombucha, Turveda and Mission Loop debuted better-for-you functional CSDs, reflecting a bigger push into this emerging space for small and mid-size brands. In the face of environmental disaster and years of unequal wealth distribution, the speakers seemed to be saying, the stakes are high, but the crisis is also an opportunity. Health and wellness brands, he said, have raised their prices around 5%, leaving room for them to also take price increases to keep up, making for fatter overall margins.īut to keep those returns growing, all three speakers again echoed the challenge expressed the day before: companies with diverse leadership are outperforming those that skew less diverse, McCoy noted, and products that are part of movements like organic and now regenerative agriculture are growing ahead of conventional. The 7% inflation rate has been matched by 7% pricing growth for brands in the SPINS database, he noted, but that growth is highly over-indexed by the big brands. Food and beverage are about 70% of that category total.Īdversity is creating opportunity, as well, McCoy pointed out: even the much hyped inflation that’s been an issue in 2022 hasn’t fallen on smaller health-and-wellness focused companies quite as hard. The industry is filling out in all the right places, Peters noted, hitting about 25% of CPG, - but providing 68% of the overall CPG industry’s growth.
With so many Americans looking at their health and looking at immunity, the natural and organic industry is going to hit $400 billion by 2030, Mast announced. The audience gave a wildly enthusiastic welcome to a touchpoint event where New Hope Prexy Carlotta Mast, SPINS EVP Kathryn Peters and Whipstitch Managing Director Nick McCoy laid out the burgeoning sector’s economic status while folding in renewed interest in diversity, the environment, COVID, and the current crisis in the Ukraine.Īs part of the intro, Mast announced that New Hope was making a $100,000 donation to Jose Andreas’ Chef’s Collaborative, an organization which has been providing meals to Ukrainian refugees during the Russian onslaught. Wednesday’s opening convocation stressed that opportunity, while acknowledging the challenging forces that have continued to plow the way for natural, organic, and better-for-you products. As a legacy for those to come, Yearwood urged, look at where the attendees might be able to contribute to an audience 100 years from now, and think about what they might do to improve environmental outcomes. To the good, however, there’s opportunity: the growth of a natural products industry, alternative energy, and more important, the energy of young people who are increasingly terrified and disappointed by the inaction of previous generations. The upshot: the same ethos that has created climate change is battling for the increasingly scarce resources that continue to amplify climate change. Yearwood went on to draw a line from those events to those taking place in the ongoing invasion of the Ukraine by Russian forces.
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