BOSTON — Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. is launching Atoka, a line of herbal plant-based beverages. It is the first offering from Lighthouse, Ocean Spray’s innovation incubator.

Atoka products include tea tonics, oat milk elixirs and herbal shots in four herbal blended flavors:

  • Herbal Blend: 01 is a combination of cranberry, guayusa, ginseng and ginger blended to elevate focus.
  • Herbal Blend: 02 blends elderberry, reishi, rosehips, ginger and spices to support wellness.
  • Herbal Blend: 03 includes dark cherry, chamomile, hops and ginger to encourage relazation.
  • Herbal Blend: 04 mixes cranberry, linden flower, lemongrass, orange peel and ginger to improve digestion.

Atoka beverages will launch in a market test in the Boston area and then roll out across the country in January 2020.

“Atoka is the first new brand to be incubated here in Boston at the Lighthouse, indicative of our emphasis on an intensely innovative, agile approach to product development and cultivating a culture of innovation throughout the organization,” said Rizal Hamdallah, global chief innovation officer at Ocean Spray. “Atoka brings Ocean Spray into an entirely new category of wellness drinks.”

Lighthouse was founded to “inspire collaboration, creativity and ingenuity,” Ocean Spray said, and to create new products that resonate with a more diverse audience. Because Ocean Spray sees rapid innovation as a critical growth driver, Lighthouse will ideate and bring to market new products at a five-month speed.

“Our Lighthouse incubation team is set to tackle the most interesting challenges we face as a food and beverage industry today and position Ocean Spray at the forefront of change,” Mr. Hamdallah said.

Ocean Spray’s Lighthouse incubator will be headed by Santi Proana. He joins the company after spending a year in Tyson Foods, Inc.’s Innovation Lab, where he aided in the development of the new Raised & Rooted brand and Yappah! Chicken Crisps.  Mr. Proana also was senior associate brand manager for Tyson, and before that was senior associate brand manager for the Kraft Heinz Co.

“The Lighthouse incubation team is uniquely structured with strong entrepreneurial talent filling key positions and designed to push boundaries, and through that process we’ll continue learning,” Mr. Proano said. “We are committed to accelerate innovation within only five months from idea, test and then market launch.”