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In honor of Earth Day Wednesday, the beverage industry celebrated actions taken by companies and individuals that further protect our planet.

Proving once again that beer is big business, the Brewers Association released its annual lists of the top 50 craft and overall brewing companies in the US, based on sales volume.

After a relatively flat rate in 2013, the US liquid refreshment beverage market grew at its strongest rate in several years, up 2.2 percent in 2014, according to new data from Beverage Marketing Corporation.

Diet soda drinkers may want to watch how much of the artificially sweetened beverages they are sucking down these days after a recent study linked calorie-free colas to greater waist size in seniors.

The Tennessee whiskey war waged on as Popcorn Sutton Distilling announced John R. Lunn will take over the position of Master Distiller, leaving his position at the George Dickel Distillery.

San Francisco supervisors who backed a tax on soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages in the have taken up a different strategy in their fight against sugar by proposing legislations that would make the city the first to require warning labels on advertising for these type of beverages, according to reports from the San Francisco Chronicle.

Packaging solutions company the Ball Corporation and Rexam PLC announced Thursday the terms of an offer by Ball to acquire Rexam, a leading metal beverage can manufacturer, in a cash and stock transaction valued at $8.4 billion.

Six US cities were announced as winners of the 2015 Childhood Obesity Prevention Awards hosted by the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) at its 83rd winter meeting in Washington, DC.

Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC) and Western Michigan University (WMU) announced a partnership to launch the nation’s first higher education programs in sustainable brewing beginning fall 2015.