News & Analysis for the Beverage Industry
Challenges include low bale yield
With demand for clean recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) outpacing supply, the plastics industry needs to innovate now to solve its challenges and improve utilization, according to a PET trade group.
Australia
An exposé by Australian consumer watchdog Choice claims SAB Miller, which owns Fosters and Carlton & United Breweries, is locking out genuine craft beer from local pubs.
PepsiCo releases FY2014 results
PepsiCo has met or exceeded its 2014 financial targets, and CEO Indra Nooyi says the company’s innovation pipeline is possibly its strongest ever, forecasting resilience to a volatile global macro environment.
Packaging machinery supplier to lower its turnover guidance for 2015
Packaging machinery manufacturer Bobst Group has lowered its turnover guidance for 2015 (from CHF1.25 to CHF1.33bn to CHF1.15 to CHF1.23bn) after the Swiss National Bank decided to discontinue the minimum exchange rate of CHF1.20 per Euro.
Beverage Bites: news up to February 12, 2015
A feast of financial results from some of the industry’s big players (Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Crown Holdings, Pernod Ricard, and Heineken); a potential shake up in beverage can manufacturing; and stevia from fermentation technology: some of the nuggets of...
BEVERAGEDAILY PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR 2014, LUKAS VON GREBMER
BeverageDaily.com Personality of 2014 Lukas von Grebmer is a man on a mission – to combat our ‘burnout society’ as co-founder of Akuō, a healthy drink that blends green tea, guarana and ginseng to deliver ‘Zenlike focus’.