News & Analysis for the Beverage Industry
The last few years have seen a quickening in the pace of new product launches by the world's top two soft drinks companies, with new flavour or formula variants of the traditional Coca-Cola and Pepsi brands leading the way.
Competition in European flavours heated up this week as Cargill, the largest private company in the US, signed on the dotted line for UK flavours group The Duckworth Group (TDG).
The Estonian Brewers' Association is concerned that a requirement to buy back empty beer cans for recycling could get out of hand once the country joins the EU in May. Trans-border purchases of beer, already very high, will increase substantially when...
eSkye Solutions, the US-based provider of specialised software for the beverage industry, has this week acquired compatriot Blend Winery Software (BWS), adding a number of major wine producers to its growing portfolio of clients.
Asconi, one of the largest eastern European producers of wines and spirits, is to buy new grape processing and winemaking equipment for its Puhoi winery to help it meet growing demand for its products.
Back from a plunge in revenues last year, US cranberry processor Northland Cranberries saw profits bounce back in the first quarter of 2004.