Category: Beverage
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Global Brands has acquired Skinny Brands, adding low-calorie, gluten-free beer and cider to its UK drinks portfolio. The deal brings Skinny Lager, Skinny IPA, and Skinny Fruit Cider under the Chesterfield-based manufacturer’s ownership.
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Anheuser-Busch has doubled its US manufacturing commitment to $600 million, combining brewery upgrades with packaging investment and technical workforce training.
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Supreme has signed a five-year agreement to manufacture and distribute Carabao energy and isotonic drinks in the UK through its own production and retail network.
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Sidel is lifting speed in still beverage filling. EvoFILL PET targets higher throughput, easier cleaning, and tighter line integration in increasingly constrained filling halls.
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The UK deposit return scheme has entered a more technical phase. Exchange for Change has now set out container, barcode, and identification rules that producers will need to build into packaging decisions ahead of registration deadlines.
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Sidel has launched a purpose-built returnable PET bottle for still water, offering a lighter format designed for reuse cycles, bottle-to-bottle recyclability, and compatibility with existing blow-moulding platforms.
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GEA and Siemens will use Hannover Messe to show how cloud connectivity, AI analytics, and modular automation can tighten beverage processing, reduce engineering effort, and speed plant changes from raw-material handling through filling integration.
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Harrogate Spring Water faces a decisive planning vote over its Harrogate bottling plant expansion, with critics arguing the loss of Rotary Wood sits uneasily beside Danone’s forest commitments and wider corporate nature claims.
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Prodalim has launched California operations for its Solos platform, adding aroma recovery and beverage innovation capacity in Hopland with an initial processing capability of 15 million litres a year.
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Sidel has launched a PET modelling tool for bottlers worldwide. The system lets users model material, cost, and emissions savings before committing to packaging or line changes.