News & Analysis for the Beverage Industry
East European consumers are enjoying an ever wider choice of soft drinks as markets open up and purchasing power increases. And growth in the market shows no sign of slowing, as popular local brands continue to hold their own against western brands. ...
Gostomel Glass Factory, Ukraine's largest glass-bottle producer, is borrowing €13.3 million from the EBRD to build a new facility that will enable it to produce 600,000 beer bottles a day.
Health conscious consumers that wish to avoid additives in their diets are finding it difficult to recognise the ingredients and the health risks associated with them because of a confusing labelling system.
In a move to protect home markets Chinese corn processor Global Bio-chem will link up with Japan's Mitsui & Co to develop, manufacture and sell the bulk reduced calorie sweetener sorbitol in China under a new joint venture company.
Baltic Beverage Holding (BBH), the Russian company that is jointly owned by S&N and Carlsberg, is planning to invest £34.2 (€50m) million in the Ukraine in a move that is hoped to improve the company's market share in the area.
Consumers in the UK can eat their porridge safe in the knowledge that their oat products are free from harmful toxins - mycotoxins - after an extensive survey in the UK found very low traces, if none at all, of the contaminant in a range of food products.