Beverage

Co-packer, brand owners toast success of wine in a can

Canned wine takes off for co-packer Free Flow Wines after it adds a canning line. Also getting a boost are customers Essentially Geared and Foley Family Wines.

January 23, 2019

Vertical Markets: Page 91

Beverage

Corona Light gets its own visual voice

A redesign for Corona Light creates a point of difference from the Extra master brand and brings a fresh, modern personality even while retaining ‘old school’ brand equities.

January 21, 2019

Beverage

Coke explores printed electronics

A recent campaign by Coca-Cola Central and Eastern Europe, though limited in scope, bears watching because it involves an intriguing use of printed electronics.

January 21, 2019

Bakery & Snack

Frito-Lay commands U.S. savory snack market

Flexible packaging drives the savory snacks category, with relatively small contributions from paper-based containers and rigid plastics.

January 21, 2019

Beverage

Kombucha brewers follow craft beer footsteps

Kombucha manufacturers like Big Easy Bucha are following an equipment and automation path well-worn by the craft beer brewers that preceded them.

January 18, 2019

Beverage

High-impact can for coffee

An original and eye-catching metal can was recently unveiled at the launch of luxury iced coffee brand Gaya Gold Coffee. The product is a blend of full bodied premium coffee crafted to deliver maximum flavor with the distinctive taste of intense caramel and creamy milk.

January 18, 2019

Meat, Poultry & Seafood

Perdue modernizes packaging to ‘stand out from the flock’

Playful illustrations and vibrant colors lend a more contemporary design to the company’s line of fresh chicken packaging as part of an effort to inspire and connect with younger consumers.

January 16, 2019

Beverage

Beer packs cannabis punch

Some cannabis-based beverages introduced recently are intentionally low in THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana that produces the feeling of being high; that is not the case with CERIA Grainwave Belgian-Style White Ale.

January 11, 2019

Beverage

Craft brewing—a view from British Columbia

Eli Gershkovitch, owner of Steamworks Brewery in Burnaby, British Columbia, talks about craft brewing and automation.

January 9, 2019

Meat, Poultry & Seafood

Canadian packaging materials and machinery end-use market #1 - food

It is probably no surprise that food and food products are the most important Canadian end-use market for packaging materials and machinery. As the second-largest manufacturing sector following automotive, the food sector has sales of about C$102.5 billion.

January 8, 2019

Dairy

Kraft is the number one dairy brand in the U.S for 2018

Rigid plastic packaging is the pack-type of choice for the U.S. dairy market, according to Euromonitor.

January 4, 2019

Beverage

High-speed juice lines to Saudi Arabia

Almarai, the leading producer of liquid dairy and juice products in the Middle East, recently increased production capacities around orange juice distributed via cold chain.

January 4, 2019

Beverage

Cannabis-infused drink in PET

Dover, DE-based Tesla Nootropics Inc. recently launched a functional feel-good beverage called Nubrain California Cannabis in a 12-oz PET bottle that sells for $2.50.

January 2, 2019