Weekly News: Starbucks, Fast Food Coffee, Adele + Beauty, Skincare M&A, & Sephora

Send to KindleTweet It’s all food and beauty here for the weekly roundup. First up, the food. Starbucks is adding Hazelnut Macchiato to its list of standard espresso drinks. Meanwhile after last year’s few acquisitions, the West Coast coffee giant is prepping to extend its loyalty card program to Teavana. The rollout would allow cardholders [...]

Dunkin’ Moves To Capture Bigger Breakfast Crowd

Send to KindleTweet It used to be that the household brands were fighting for our coffee dollars. Now they want us to buy breakfast too. The now publicly-traded Mass.-based Dunkin’ Donuts recently made two new moves to lure increasingly health-conscious consumers: 1) a change to the eggs they use and 2) a new addition to [...]

Weekly Links: Beauty, Cleanses & Makeup M&A

Send to KindleTweet Years ago I mocked the mainstream media and big consumer brands when they realized white people aren’t the only beauty and clothing consumers. Now, beauty brands realize black women and spunky ladies buy lip butters too. So let’s start with beauty brands. CoverGirl is building on the recent announcement that they’d signed [...]

Starbucks’ Plan: Better Foam & More DIY Options

Send to KindleTweet The coffee wars are in full effect. McDonald’s is undercutting everyone with the $1 promo and Starbucks revealed last month plans for its own single cup brewer. What’s interesting here is 1) that Starbucks is competing with Green Mountain, which owns Keurig and has a deal with Starbucks for coffee pod distribution, [...]

Is A Kahluaccino Coming Soon?

Send to KindleTweet I’ve dreamt of the day Starbucks would get a liquor license and now it’s here. Although not quite in the form I’d desired, it’s here. I’d imagined a world where hedonism was part of mainstream lifestyle and a frothy sugar-laden coffee drink came spiked to quell that oncoming hangover one would fear [...]

Beverage Trend – Single Brew Coffee

Send to KindleTweet The latest beverage trend is about the medium not the product. Single brew coffee. It’s ironic that if you hold onto something for long enough it will once again be en vogue. When I moved to NYC in 2004, I was staying with my aunt and uncle, who had been in the [...]

Jamba Adds Energy Drink, Coconut Water, To Mix

Send to KindleTweet Jamba Juice has expanded its lineup of drinks, including bottled products, to include an energy product and coconut water-based beverage. Dubbed Fruit Refreshers, one new menu item is a coconut water drink made with fruit, sherbet, and ice. Another spring arrival is the launch of Jamba Juice All Natural Energy Drinks, the [...]

DIY Travel Beauty

Send to KindleTweet I’m the last person to talk about the benefits about sugar, but I’m not talking about eating it here. Most beauty junkies are no stranger to the many sugar-based body scrubs on the market, the most of popular of which is the brown sugar scrub from Fresh. However, this is definitely something [...]

Coffee 2.0

Send to KindleTweet Is it possible New Yorkers are so much busier than everyone else in the world that prepaid lattes are necessary? This is a theory Seattle-based coffee giant Starbucks is testing out, with a new service available in NYC and Long Island. Available at 300 locations to start, the Starbucks Card Mobile App [...]

A New Reason To Justify Coffee Binges

Send to KindleTweet I’m always looking for a new reason to justify my java addiction and here comes a new study from Europe to do just that. The best part about it is that it seems they are calling moderate consumption two to four cups a day. Hah! Dr. Yvonne van der Schouw, professor of [...]

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