Beverage alcohol distributor Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits will acquire Miami’s WEBB Banks: a premium wine and spirit distributor in the Caribbean, Central America, South America, and the travel retail and cruise sector.
Ball Corporation is to build a beverage can and end manufacturing plant in Paraguay, as well as adding capacity to its facility in Buenos Aires, as people consume more beer in South America.
Scholle IPN, which produces flexible packaging for wine, processed fruits and vegetables, dairy products, and aseptic juices in the Latin American market, has opened a manufacturing facility in Santiago, Chile.
Heineken reported 2.5% volume growth of its flagship beer brand for the first quarter of 2017, but double-digit volume declines in Brazil hampered overall growth for the second largest brewer.
Australian global packaging company Amcor has announced an agreement to acquire Alusa, the largest flexible packaging business in South America, for $435m.
Bemis Company will acquire the South American rigid plastic packaging operations of Emplal Participações, a Brazilian manufacturer of plastic packaging for food and consumer applications.
Firm spends €50m to triple production capacity in China
The aluminum packaging specialist believes thirsty World Cup fans converging on Brazil will push consumption of beverages in aluminum cans past the 2bn-unit mark.
Asia dominates the world market for beer labels but the market is still dominated by old-style wet glue applied labels, but pressure-sensitive labels continue to make inroads in North America.
Food ingredient giant Ingredion reported a steep drop in year-over-year earnings in the third quarter of 2013, mostly from problems in South American markets. In addition, the company foresees a complicated impact from a newly-passed tax in Mexico on...
Spirits manufacturer Beam Inc. has appointed Pryce Greenow as MD emerging markets, South America, to develop growth in promising regional markets for its 'Power Brands'.
Processing specialist SPX Corp and packaging player Smurfit Kappa both completed takeovers this week as they seek to expand their reach in Europe and South America respectively.
SIG Combibloc has signed its first deal with a juice drink maker in South America as the carton pack manufacturer looks to grow its presence in the region.
Denmark's Chr Hansen is set to launch a second-generation
Fermentation Produced Chymosin (FPC) for the cheese market,
promising cost-efficiency and better process control.
In a bid to capitalise on the booming South American wine industry,
Saint-Gobain has purchased control of one of the regions largest
wine bottling companies.
