The latest food and beverage industry news and trend analysis

Tim Hortons is leveraging its dominant "away-from-home" brand equity to secure a primary position in the Canadian "at-home" iced coffee market, utilising unsweetened RTD formats and customisable syrups to capture off-premise consumption.

For Five Coffee Roasters has secured a strategic growth investment to accelerate its national expansion, scaling its Queens roasting facility and growing its 40-site speciality retail footprint.

Dutch Bros Inc. has agreed to acquire the 29-shop Phoenix East Valley franchise, transitioning the locations to a company-operated model and bolstering its strategic growth footprint in Arizona following the retirement of a 20-year veteran franchisee.

RYZE has expanded its Target retail portfolio with three new instant functional lattes, utilising its proprietary SUPER6™ mushroom blend to deliver sustained energy and cognitive support.

Kenco has expanded into the matcha and liquid coffee concentrate segments, launching a range of café-style products designed to capture high-velocity growth among the under-35 demographic.

Foodtastic has secured an exclusive master franchising agreement with Inspire Brands to develop hundreds of Dunkin' locations across Canada, leveraging its 1,200-store operational footprint to re-enter the highly competitive Canadian coffee and bakery market starting in late 2026.

Pop & Bottle has expanded its RTD portfolio into the functional hydration category, launching a Matcha Coconut Water line that combines ceremonial-grade matcha with over 600mg of natural electrolytes to target the "clean energy" wellness market.

Starbucks has launched Coffee Craft in the UK, a premium Arabica concentrate designed to capture the at-home iced coffee market by reducing preparation friction for lifestyle consumers.