Packaged Beverages

Inventure Foods, Inc. expands its successful line of Jamba All Natural Smoothies with a new tropically inspired "at home" smoothie flavor.

The deal will help provide new products and features for SodaStreams core business of home carbonation, and will accelerate its future penetration into new channels.

PepsiCo announces that Albert (Al) P. Carey has been named CEO of PepsiCo Americas Beverages, effective immediately, reporting to Chairman and CEO Indra K. Nooyi.

In conjunction with the transaction, Sunsweet formed a wholly-owned subsidiary named Disruptive Beverages Inc to help drive the growth of developing beverage companies with strong products and ideas.

The acquisition will expand the company's beverage portfolio of bottled water to include high-quality iced teas, lemonades and juice drinks.

With the 2010 addition of Cadbury, Kraft Foods' successful business in Brazil became even bigger.