News & Analysis for the Beverage Industry
Billerud has announced it is to merge with fellow Swedish packaging outfit Korsnas as part of a bid to create a leading virgin-fibre market player with an annual turnover exceeding SEK 20bn (€2.3bn).
Amcor Rigid Plastics says US airlines are driving demand for wine bottles made from lighter, cheaper PET rather than glass within the high growth single-serve market.
Jack Daniel's has rejected claims made by a Welshman that his distant relative may have founded the drinks dynasty when he emigrated to the States in the nineteenth century.
Dispatches from Israel
Israel's beverage behemoth Gan Shmuel Group claims it has developed low sugar pure juices that contain no added ingredients and are undiluted, yet retain a natural, sweet taste.
Despite prior gloomy predictions about the effect on sales of France’s so-called soda tax, Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) now says the under-penetrated country offers it ‘significant growth potential’.