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Byline: Rhodri Morgan Anheuser-Busch InBev has unveiled what it claims to be the world’s lightest beer bottle. The Budweiser brand owner has reduced the weight of its standard ‘long-neck’ bottle [...]

Byline: Andy Morton Carlsberg is to roll out 1m beer bottles in the UK that have a carbon footprint up to 90% smaller than regular bottles. The glass bottles are [...]

Byline: Rafaela Sousa New Orleans-based Urban South Brewery has lined up new packaging for its core beer portfolio. The company said yesterday that the revamp, created by graphic design company [...]

Byline: Olly Wehring Krombacher has updated the packaging across its namesake range of beers available in the UK. The German brewer has unveiled the revamp for Krombacher Pils, Weizen, Dark, [...]

Byline: Thandie Sibanda Shepherd Neame has updated the livery for its flagship UK beer brand, Spitfire. The brand, which launched in 1990, will feature an image of a Spitfire aeroplane [...]

Ardagh Group’s new Beer Bottle is designed with amber glass and a 500ml format to provide a single serving size. The bottle is made to be completely recyclable. ******************** INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. [...]

Byline: Olly Wehring Here's a round-up of this week's top stories from the global beer & cider categories. Click the links to see our round-ups for soft drinks & bottled [...]

Packaging labels and design, not to mention materials, all play a part in helping the product become appealing to consumers. Sales in the alcohol segment are increasing, especially now as [...]

Oxygen kills beer. One part per million of [O.sub.2] is enough to skunk up your favorite brew, which is why glass and aluminum are the prime containers of beer and [...]

Grupo Modelo de la C.V. brews nine beers in seven Mexican breweries. Modelo has a 58% share of the Mexican beer market. It has installed an $11.5-million can line in its Mexico City plant. The new line has deliberate overcapacity at the depalletizer, pasteurizer, tray packer, shrink wrapper and palletizers to allow continuous operation of the 2,000 can/minute 168-head filler. The equipment also triples canning capacity to 120,000 tray packs/day., Modelo's Mexico City brewery builds $11.5 million can line with deliberate overcapacity at the depalletizer, pasteurizer, tray packer, shrink wrapper and palletizers to assure that the 2,000 can/min 168-head filler [...]

There are certain things you'll see in most beer commercials on TV: attractive women, endearingly lunkheaded guys, streams of golden brew. And there's one thing you'll see in commercials for [...]

Amcor has adapted its design technology to develop the first polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle for pasteurized beer in Brazil. The company designed custom 600 ml containers for beverage maker New [...]

Byline: Lucy Britner The US arm of Anheuser-Busch InBev will roll out a new design for its Bud Light beer, from next year. The company said the move marks the [...]

As any beer drinker knows, beer has to be fresh to taste best. For Coors, a brewer that prides itself on freshness perhaps more than others, just-in-time manufacturing is crucial. [...]

There are literally thousands of consumer goods brands to choose from when a consumer walks down the aisles in a supermarket. When the consumer sees dozens of ketchups, for example, [...]

If you're a city dweller, this has probably happened to you: You're about to cross a busy intersection when you hear a loud whistle or a wild 'Yelp!' You stop [...]

Byline: James Wilmore Carlsberg is aiming to produce what it claims will be the world's first fully biodegradable beer bottle. The Danish brewer has started a three-year project with packaging [...]

Each year, Harpoon employees get together for a friendly brewing competition, with staffers from every department invited to brew a beer of their choosing and present it to their colleagues [...]

Rehrig Pacific Co. has launched a new PubKeg 1/6th barrel rental solution for breweries. The new program allows breweries to ship full kegs while Rehrig handles tracking, return and recycling. [...]

Latis Imports has announced revamped packaging for Palm Ale. 'We have a new bottle and new packaging,' reported David van Wees, co-founder of Latis. 'It's a looser, craftier package that [...]

Byline: James Wilmore MillerCoors has confirmed it will introduce a new strong beer and high abv hard cider in the US next year. The beer, Miller Fortune, will have an [...]

MillerCoors has upgraded the Miller Lite bottle for on-premise accounts this summer. The 'modern interpretation of the legendary [Lite] long neck' was designed by 4sight inc., a package design company. [...]

German liquer producer Underberg AG installed Ostma Machinenbau GmbH's Ringtray system to improve its packaging and labelling operations. The system allows the company to pack 20 ml beer bottles into ten basic pack sizes to meet varying consumer needs. The machine wraps kraft paper in top and botto bands around the carton and sealed with a hot melt adhesive. Two envelope-type flaps are made from the large band from the base of the pack and sealed to ensure a tight package. The system allowed Underberg to reduce packaging material volume by 90% and cost of material from $0.17 to $4.3., New paper tray system for multipacking cartons of Underberg herbal digestives made in Berlin, Germany, can provide up to an 80 percent reduction in packaging materials, payback in less than [...]

Pilsner Urquell exported to the U.S. is undergoing a change for freshness. The Czech brewer is taking new measures along these lines including refrigerated, express shipping and fully enclosed packaging [...]

Riverwood International isn't content to leave packaging ideas sitting on the shelf. In the realm of secondary packaging, new ideas sometimes seem few and far between. As Gary Pichon, senior [...]

Byline: Kevin Jacobs India's largest brewers, United Breweries and SABMiller, have started patenting glass bottles as they look to curb the cost of manufacturing new bottles through buying back used [...]

Gritty McDuff's Brewing Company of Portland, ME, has announced it is changing the make-up of its variety pack to include its new 21 IPA. The Gritty Dozen Variety Pack previously [...]

Top 30 Beer Brands & Top 100 Packages, Four weeks ending July 12th, 2009 Excerpted from IRI Data Total US Food Drug and Convenience Case Case Sales Cs Top 30 [...]

Heineken has launched its Zlatopramen and Starobrno beer brands in the Czech Republic in 1.5-litre in PET plastic bottles. The first batches have already appeared in local Albert supermarkets, which [...]