Today, cross-category beverages are becoming increasingly more available as brands attempt to cater to consumers’ better-for-you demands while also delivering innovative new flavor options.

Bigelow has more than 30 years of beverage industry experience in both non-alcoholic and beverage alcohol in North America.

Overall, South America will see growth in most categories in non-alcoholic beverages.

Senomyx Inc. announced its new flavor ingredient has been determined to be GRAS.

Beverages, like all product categories in the U.S. market, have had a bit of an up-and-down time in recent years, at least in terms of new product introductions. In non-alcoholic beverages, the U.S. market experienced a significant drop in new product introductions in 2009.

The Coca-Cola Company has opened a $120 million plant in south Russia to supply non-alcoholic beverages for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Russia's Black Sea resort city of Sochi.