Dr Pepper Snapple Group Breaks Ground on $120 Million Production Facility in Southern California.
Beverage production and distribution center will employ 200 people, serve as Western distribution center for DPS VICTORVILLE, Calif., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Representatives of Dr Pepper Snapple Group joined elected officials from throughout Victor Valley today to officially break ground on the company's beverage production and distribution...

Polar's new drinks in demand; Worcester bottler introduces new lines of tea, fruit, seltzer and juice beverages.
Byline: Lisa Eckelbecker WORCESTER - Polar Beverages Inc., the privately held regional bottler and distributor of sodas and beverages, has expanded its product offerings with new lines of tea and fruit drinks in recent months. One line of six new Black Jack drinks features teas...

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company Announces Cash Settlement.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company Announces Cash Settlement(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company announced it settled in cash totaling $45.7 million, the 4,657,378 Series A Warrants, issued in connection with the acquisition of Pathmark....

Green tea helps burn fat.
Drinking green tea before exercise could help burn fat. American scientists carried out studies on 12 healthy young men, who took either green tea extract (GTE), equivalent to 3.5 cups of tea, or placebo before taking part in cycling trials. Average fat oxidation rates were 17% higher in the...

Research and Markets Adds Report: Soft Drinks in Morocco to 2011.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Research and Markets Adds Report: Soft Drinks in Morocco to 2011(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of Soft Drinks in Morocco to 2011 to its offerings. In a release, Research and Markets noted that...

A visit to the Living Earth Cafe.
Editor's Note: Worldwatch Research Associate Erik Assadourian has been developing a code of ethics grounded in the reality that we are utterly dependent on a fragile Earth system for our ability to survive and thrive, and that our choices must reflect this fact. This essay begins a series that...

Seeing China.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The constant threat of invasion from nomadic peoples in the north resulted in China leading a fairly insular existence for hundreds of years. During the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), this isolation was further reinforced by policies introduced to restrict contact with the outside world. These weren't...

Putting on the RITZ; Bentley picks Templeton to showcase luxury cars.
Byline: Shirley Barnes COLUMN: GETTING AROUND Those Bentleys parked around Templeton Common two or three days a week during June are being test-driven by 140 journalists from around the world as the new $225,000 Bentley Continental Flying Spur Speed car makes its debut in Boston....

Research and Markets Adds Report: Soft Drinks in Morocco to 2011.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2008-Research and Markets Adds Report: Soft Drinks in Morocco to 2011(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of Soft Drinks in Morocco to 2011 to its offerings. In a release, Research and Markets noted that...

Tea catechin consumption reduces circulating oxidized low-density lipoprotein.
It has been reported that green tea consumption reduces the risk of coronary artery disease and cardiac events. Catechin is a major constituent of Japanese green tea and an antioxidant. Lipids and oxidization of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) play important roles in atherosclerosis. Therefore, we evaluated the effect of...