Category: Beverage
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Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has deployed an electric HGV from its Wakefield plant. The trial with Maritime Transport has covered more than 7,000 miles and saved an estimated 12.43 tonnes of CO₂e.
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Purity Soft Drinks is rebranding as The Juice Burst Drinks Co. The move follows the appointment of Scott Snell as chief executive and aligns the manufacturer around its leading juice drinks brand.
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Döhler has agreed a £183m takeover of British Treatt.
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Danone is scaling Oikos into shelf-stable protein shakes, moving the high-protein brand beyond chilled yogurt and into ambient ready-to-drink formats built around protein, fibre, and low sugar.
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JDE Peet’s and Airbus are using satellite imagery and AI to map coffee plantations across East Africa, creating an open geospatial dataset designed to support deforestation-free coffee sourcing and reduce risk across global coffee supply chains.
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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.