While the best beverage prospects for the flexible packaging industry continue to lie with wine, sports drinks, ready-to-drink teas and even beer present significant opportunities for pouch manufacturers, US packaging analyst Joe Iorillo told BeverageDaily.com.
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Capri Sun’s runaway success in North America for Kraft Foods is alerting other beverage brands to the potential stand-up pouches offer, while machine line speeds are increasing all the time.
Coca-Cola FEMSA has inked a deal to acquire Brazil’s second-largest privately owned Coke bottler in an eye-watering $1.86bn cash deal and says the deal is a ‘perfect geographic fit’
Heineken is confident it can restore growth to its struggling Heineken Light brand in the US by revamping the beer with new packaging and using Cascade Aroma hops favored by craft brewers.
Life Technologies has expanded its food testing capabilities by joining with a German firm to target spoilage organisms in the brewing and beverage market.
Pernod Ricard executives admit that Top 13 brand Ballantine’s is struggling as the firm suffers from a global Scotch whisky slowdown across its business.
New research associates drinking an average of one bottle of beer, glass of wine or liquor shot between early adolescence and the first full-term pregnancy to a 13% higher risk of breast cancer.
A waste water recovery plant at a site run by SAB Miller/Coca-Cola Amatil JV Pacific Beverages has won an Australian prize for setting high stands in terms of water reuse and green energy generation.
Budweiser and Colt 45 are among the most popular alcohol brands consumed by US emergency room (ER) patients, a year-long study by the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) has found.
Diageo says that collaborations with the likes of SAB Miller, Heineken and Coke are helping the beverage industry lessen its impact in water-stressed regions worldwide.
Rabobank says it is critical that brewers with limited access to malt barley in emerging markets such create strategic and secure malt supplies to protect beer margins, and hints that India could be key.
Heineken CEO Jean-François Van Boxmeer says the company’s flagship brand cannot directly compete with a craft beer sector that has hogged US beer growth over the past decade.
Australian scientists have created a healthier more hydrating beer by adding electrolytes and lowering the alcohol content to reduce the dangers of drinking.
On a day when Coca-Cola’s Australian distributor admitted that a soft-drinks price war had significantly hit its first-half earnings, it also revealed it will make a big-chips return to the local beer market.
Diageo has seen off the latest US legal challenge relating to its Parrot Bay RTD cocktails but could still face a possible jury trial in 2013 over claims relating to packaging patent infringement.
Turkey's biggest brewer and SAB Miller partner Anadolu Efes expects new restrictions on marketing and sales of alcohol to limit beer industry growth in the country.
The second paper from researchers at Pew Health published this month to argue that the system governing the safety of food additives is deeply flawed, fails to provide any evidence that it has allowed harmful substances to ‘slip through the net’, say...
Diageo has declined to comment on the possible business effects of stiffer alcohol laws in Turkey, insisting only that it remains committed to its business in Turkey.
‘Absolutely insane’ that Red Bull can trademark the word ‘Red’: brewery
Redwell Brewing says Red Bull’s UK trademark for the word ‘Red’ is ‘absolutely insane’ after the Austrian energy drinks giant sent the craft brewer a stern letter warning of trademark infringement.
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Johnnie Walker distiller Diageo admits that it fell off-track in 2013 against a 2015 target to cut the polluting power of wastewater by 60% but insists it is still on target to meet the goal.
The finalists in Sainsbury’s ‘Great British Beer Hunt’ will face off this September with the winner set to winner an exclusive nationwide listing with the UK retailer.
The founder of award-winning Swedish rhubard liqueur brand Rhuby insists that the major battle for a spirits startup is distribution and it isn’t enough to have a ‘great product, fantastic concept and beautiful brand’.
Beam Inc.'s sales of Skinnygirl RTD sales fell 23% in H1 2013 with the firm blaming terrible US weather and a challenging year-on-year comparison after impressive growth last year.
A row over a range of Italian wines still sold online with Fascist and Nazi imagery has reportedly re-erupted after tourists found them in a Rimini store.
Molson Coors CEO Peter Swinburn admits that premium light beer Coors Light struggled in Canada during Q2 2013 and says it has 'some work to do' to boost the brand's volume sales.
The only whisky producer in Wales - whose first single malt was launched by Prince Charles in 2004 - is installing three new stills to more than triple its capacity and boost sales overseas.
Strike action has been averted at Molson Coors' Burton-on-Trent brewery in an eleventh hour pay deal, with union Unite claiming victory for spearheading the campaign.
Rexam CEO Graham Chipchase insists the packaging firm will take a stronger position in an under-penetrated Indian market to service surprise demand for specialty cans.
Latino women or ‘Latinas’ are outpacing their male peers in terms of education and employment in the US, over-index in beverage buying and hold the purse strings, a new Nielsen report reveals.
Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Carlos Brito insists to analysts that US line extension Budweiser Black Crown ‘is delivering on its promises’, and says he is encouraged by flat core Budweiser brand sales.
The UK distributor of a new cardboard beverage package Cartocan hopes it will reshape the UK premium drinks landscape following its launch at the Packaging Innovations show in October.
Diageo CEO Ivan Menezes warns that the firm’s beer innovations in North America over the last year have failed and that it needs to ‘crack the code’ for brands such as Guinness that face increasing competition from super premium and craft beers.
C&C Group has moved to reassure investors after rival brand Angry Orchard Hard Apple Cider overtook its own brand Woodchuck as US market leader in June.
Consumers and brands continue to fall out of love with 12oz (355ml) beverage cans as growth accelerates in specialty sizes, according to can giant Ball Packaging.
With its Indian chapter launching as recently as April this year, the Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) is a case in point of how the country’s taste for the drink has been moving quickly in a premium direction.
PepsiCo CFO Hugh Johnston says the firm is not interested in buying Mondelez for a premium price of $80bn due to integration risks and dubious value for his firm’s shareholders.
Serially controversial Scottish craft brewer BrewDog says it will not comply with a UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) adjudication ordering it to remove website language ‘likely to cause serious offense’.
German researchers have solved the mystery of why some native beers have higher arsenic levels than those present in water tested before brewing – use of diatomaceous earth as a clarifier.
MillerCoors will today attack the London Metal Exchange (LME) claiming that unfair aluminum market practices and lack of transatlantic oversight cost US industry an extra $3bn in 2012.
A Czech-made ‘beer bath oil’ containing brewer’s yeast and hop extracts has been withdrawn from the German market after officials said its packaging was too similar to that of real beer.
The chair of can giant Crown Holdings was tight-lipped when asked about the impact on the packaging industry if PepsiCo chose to spun-off its beverage business as 'activist-investor' Nelson Peltz demands.
Consumer packaging specialist Andrew Streeter believes a new PET wine bottle for Portuguese brand Monte Dos Amigos can rival glass in a way that previous attempts have not.
Suntory Australia is taking a ‘new strategic direction’ by focusing on its premium spirits and liqueurs brands and exiting a distribution deal with C&C Group for Magners cider, as the brand's sales suffer down under.
The UK government addressed its Alcohol Strategy consultation yesterday by ditching controversial plans to introduce minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol, to applause from industry and outrage from health groups…
The head of SAB Miller’s JV in China says the firm should be gunning for a 30%+ beer market share as it seeks to consolidate its position as market leader, but major takeover targets are scarce.
