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Premium canned wine company receives $100,000 investment
The Zell Founders Fund, in collaboration with the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business, has contributed $100,000 to a recent funding round for Just Enough Wines, a premium quality canned wine company founded by University of Michigan alumna Kaitlyn Lo (MBA ’21) with her friend, Jessica Hershfield. “People…
Anheuser-Busch to invest in LA brewery
Anheuser-Busch has announced a $64 million investment into Los Angeles brewing operations in an effort to drive economic recovery, expand sustainability initiatives, and bolster the brewing giant’s hard seltzer capabilities. Highlights include new canning lines to drive innovation in the RTD and hard seltzer space and a solar-powered microgrid—the largest solar installation of any brewery…
Spritz Society launches canned spritz cocktails
Spritz Society, a new lifestyle brand that creates elevated beverages and is focused on modernising the classic Spritz, has announced a line of sparkling canned Spritz cocktails. Set to make a splash, bring a new energy to the market, and become a category-defining player, the beverage has a base of 100% real white wine made…
Carlow Brewing Company raises over €1m
O’Hara’s craft beer producer Carlow Brewing Company has raised over €1 million from Spanish brewery Hijos de Rivera and Enterprise Ireland to develop a new canning and bottling line and make other improvements that to boost its production capacity. As reported by The Business Post, Hijos de Rivera previously invested €2.7 million Carlow Brewing Company and…
Vobev to open Utah manufacturing facility
Independent canmaker, Vobev, is set to open a new manufacturing facility in Utah in Q4 2021 and will produce, fill, package and ship a variety of beverages. The Vobev business model of combining everything under one roof will significantly shrink production lead times by weeks or months, reduce costs, and decrease product carbon footprint. Vobev…
Heineken Lanka to brew flagship Heineken beer in Sri Lanka
Heineken Lanka have commenced local brewing operations of its flagship beer brand – Heineken in Sri Lanka. With this, Sri Lanka joins an elite group of 60 countries that have the license and approvals from its global parent for local manufacturing operations. This move signifies the importance of the Sri Lankan market to the Dutch…
Recycling facility in Florida third recipient of aluminium beverage can capture grant
Ardagh Metal Packaging and Crown Holdings have funded a new aluminium can capture grant awarded to a recycling facility northeast of Orlando that will install additional can capture equipment as part of a larger facility upgrade. Once installed at GEL Recycling’s Port Orange, FL, material recovery facility (MRF), this equipment will result in nearly 3.5 million more beverage cans…
Demand for canned products to rise in India
The demand for can-packed products is likely to sharply rise, given the increasing emphasis on recycling and sustainable solutions, Amit Lahoti, VP and GM, India and Southeast Asia for Ball Beverage Packaging has said. Pointing out that the per capita can consumption in India is one per annum while it is 70 in Vietnam and…
Perth coffee company teams up with Crown
The British Coffee Association estimates that around 104 million cups of it are consumed every day and with all that coffee comes a lot of waste in terms of packaging and discarded coffee grounds. One business doing their bit to reduce this wastage is Manifesto Coffee in Perth. Just last month the firm switched all of…
Isle of Wight Distillery launches first-ever canned G&T
The team at Isle of Wight Distillery has launched its first-ever ready mixed Mermaid & Tonic – a blend of its signature award-winning gin paired with Indian light tonic. The can is printed and plastic-free, plus 100% recyclable. Orders are despatched in plastic-free packaging, enabling the brand to remain emphatically net-zero. The Mermaid team will…
