The National Assembly for Wales has approved a new law which will introduce a minimum price for alcohol in Wales. The legislation intends to reduce the amount of alcohol being consumed in the form of binge drinking, while reducing the ...
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Ardagh Group and Spiritus Movens Design Studio in Poland has been selected by Polish Cider Lubelski to design bottle. The result of their work is a new, lightweighted glass bottle with unique embossing designed for Cider Lubelski - the ...
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Petainer, a provider of plastic container solutions, has expanded its global keg product portfolio with the introduction of petainerKeg Hybrid. The new petainerKeg Hybrid has been developed by a team of scientists and technical experts at ...
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The Scottish Government is planning to introduce 50p minimum unit pricing for alcohol from 1 May 2018. Scotland’s health secretary, Shona Robison said the decision was made after analysis of a public consultation, and the ...
Canadian craft cider-maker Brickworks Ciderhouse has opened its first urban ciderhouse in downtown Toronto at 709 Queen Street East. The Brickworks Ciderhouse will open its doors February 2018. Brickworks Ciderhouse will be a new ...
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UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found that Heineken’s £403m bid to acquire Punch Taverns estate could reduce competition in over 33 places across the country. The regulator has asked the Dutch brewing company to ...
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Canada-based Brick Brewing has completed a brand licensing agreement for the rights to the Chudleigh's brand for cider. The agreement is for an initial ten-year term, with provision for further extensions. “This is an exciting ...
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Crown Beverage Packaging North America has designed new limited edition cans with photochromic inks for Molson Coors beer brand, Coors Light. The six limited edition cans with sunlight-activated specialty inks and printing have been ...
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Jones Soda will celebrate 21 years in business this summer with the Pacific Northwest release of Spiked Jones, the first ever alcoholic hard cider-soda beverage. Created in collaboration with Jeff Bland, the award-winning cider maker for ...
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Wine, spirit and cider producer Distell has partnered with Stock Spirits to improve spirit range in the UK. The partnership, which will take effect from 1 June 2017, will strengthen the relationship between the two companies. Several ...
A team of students at Stanford University in California, US, have recreated 5,000-year-old Chinese beer recipe. The research revealed that the ancient Chinese made beer especially with cereal grains, including millet and barley, as well ...
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UK-based cider producer Thatchers has installed canning line at its Myrtle Farm facility in Somerset. The company invested £8.3m and commissioned its first canning line at its production facility to press and package all of its ...
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AB InBev and C&C Group have expanded their partnership with new distribution agreements and extended brewing contracts for the UK and Irish markets. Under a new distribution contract, AB InBev agreed to distribute C&C Group's cider ...
UK-based sustainable packaging provider Petainer has introduced new rental agreements to enable its customers to access its petainerKeg blowing and filling lines. Manufactured from highly engineered advanced polymers, the petainerKeg is a ...
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Coca-Cola Amatil's AB bro Bryggeri is temporarily withdrawing Rekorderlig Cocktail cans from shelves after it found an issue which could compromise product quality. AB Åbro Bryggeri CEO Henrik Dunge said: “Rekorderlig has a ...
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