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Tetra Pak adding full-color digital printing for beverage cartons

The investment will offer customers more customization, smaller batches

January 16, 2019

Tetra Pak will start offering full-color digital printing on beverage cartons, which will reduce design-to-print time and allow a variety of designs in one order.

Diet Coke

Diet Coke launches 4 new flavors, updated packaging

Soda is not being reformulated.

Crystal Lindell

January 12, 2018

With an updated look, sleek new packaging, the debut of four bold, new flavors and a new campaign, The Coca-Cola Company is hoping to re-energize and modernize Diet Coke for a new generation.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Cott Beverages sold to Refresco

All-cash transaction totals $1.25 billion

Casey Laughman

July 27, 2017

Cott Corporation has announced that it is selling its Cott Beverages business to Refresco for $1.25 billion.

Coke

New Coca-Cola Zero announcement brings back memories of New Coke fiasco

A look at how one brand overcame such a huge marketing mistake.

Casey Laughman

July 27, 2017

I realize that nostalgia for the 1980s is a big thing these days, but I hope that Coca-Cola isn’t taking it too far.

Coke

Coke Zero reformulated with new recipe, new packaging

New recipe tastes like a Coke with zero sugar and zero calories, slated to hit shelves in Aug.

Crystal Lindell

July 27, 2017

Coca-Cola Zero is getting a new name, new look and, according to the company, an even more delicious taste.

M&A forecast: Craft breweries headed for rapid pace of rollups

Food and beverage M&As in 2016 and what’s ahead in 2017

Debra Schug

January 29, 2017

“I think there’s a storm coming for craft beer,” says Kevin O’Connor, president and founder of O’Connor Brewing, a microbrewery located in Norfolk, Va.

Big deals lead concerns of craft beer industry

TECH FLASH

Alabama beer sale changes spark privacy debate

The Alabama Alcohol Beverage Control Board introduced a proposal that would require breweries and brewpubs that sell beer for off-premise consumption to record sensitive information.

Jeremy Gerrard

August 16, 2016

Beer manufacturers and breweries call the proposal a breach of privacy.

Dry Processing

Tea importer achieves blend consistency with new mixer

Variations in tea quality and characteristics require a gentler, more thorough mixing process.

Debra Schug

April 12, 2016

Henry P. Thomson, Inc., or HPT, is one of the largest tea importers in the US, selling primarily to tea packagers that distribute to restaurants, food chains and supermarkets in the Southern states.

constellation brands to purchase ballast point

TECH FLASH

Constellation Brands plans to build $1.5 billion brewery

The new brewery will have a production capacity of up to 20 million hectoliters.

Jeremy Gerrard

January 12, 2016

The facility’s proximity to California provides a new avenue to better service the western US.

Sweet Leaf Tea recalled for glass fragments

Jeremy Gerrard

December 11, 2015

The Sweet Leaf Tea company has issued a voluntary recall for 1.5 million bottles of iced tea.

Clean Label Packaging Expands to Include Sustainability Considerations

General Mills Sells North American Yogurt Business

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