Bravo! Brands Expands Milk into Two New Categories with Introduction of Slammers Sport Milk and Slammers Energy Milk
Slammers Sport Milk will be sold in ready-to-drink 14-ounce bottles in three flavors -- chocolate, vanilla and angerine-orange -- and will be available at retail locations as early as July.
04/04/07 Bravo! Brands Inc., a brand development and marketing company that promotes and distributes vitamin-fortified, flavored milk drinks and other beverages, announced that it will expand milk into two new categories by entering the large and fast growing sports and energy drink markets with milk-based products.
The Company will introduce Slammers Sport Milk, the first milk-based sports drink, during summer 2007. Slammers Sport Milk was developed in response to a growing body of scientific and empirical evidence that suggests milk can play an important role in post-exercise recovery and rehydration when used as a Replenishment Delivery System. This evidence has led many well known athletes and coaches to recommend flavored milk as an after- and between-workout beverage.
Slammers Sport Milk will have the same rehydration capabilities as the leading sports drinks. But, unlike the leading sports drinks, Slammers Sport Milk will allow cells to rebuild themselves by increasing the absorption of the protein naturally found in milk. In addition, the product contains CoQ-10 and a vitamin B complex to provide fast and long lasting energy. Together, these attributes make Slammers Sport Milk the first complete Replenishment Delivery System.
Slammers Sport Milk will be sold in ready-to-drink 14-ounce bottles in three flavors -- chocolate, vanilla and angerine-orange -- and will be available at retail locations as early as July.
"We're leveraging the great restorative nutrition of Mother Nature's perfect beverage, milk, and marrying it with science to create the first milk- based sports drink," said Roy Warren, CEO. "Product development began soon after we learned about the Indiana University study which revealed that chocolate milk's carb-to-protein ratio was well-suited to recharge muscles worn-out from exercise."
Bravo! Brands represents the first of an array of new products Bravo! intends to create focused on sports and exercise, a market it first entered with its PRO Slammers-line of nutritionally fortified milk-based beverages in 2004. In addition Bravo! is currently researching and testing Slammers Energy Milk, which is expected to combine the goodness of milk in a beverage that provides twice the energy of the leading energy drink. Flavors in development include vanilla, coffee and chocolate.
"Slammers Sport Milk and Slammers Energy Milk are prime examples of what our company is all about -- being on the leading edge of beverage development," added Warren. "These new products will give us an entry into the sports drink and energy drink categories, estimated at $2.5 billion each."
Produced aseptically, Slammers have no preservatives, do not need to be refrigerated until opened and, before opening, have a shelf life of up to eight months.