wine
eProvenance unveils IBM blockchain-powered wine platform
eProvenance’s new IBM blockchain-powered platform offers a smarter and highly secured way to track wines as they move through distribution, from vineyard to consumer.
UK wine exports pour into overseas markets
WineGB has revealed that global sales of English wine more than doubled between 2018 and 2019.
UPS, Sealed Air, Smurfit Kappa and Macfarlane Packaging launch new packaging for alcohol exports
The new range of packaging is specially designed for shipping individual bottles of spirits and wine, to help producers in the UK and Ireland expand their markets and reach new customers.
Estal introduces new Wild Glass colour
Estal, a leading company in the premium packaging market, has introduced ‘Wild Glass’, a sustainable glass bottle concept for the distillery, beverage and gourmet industries.
Made for Drink expands into Waitrose, Sainsbury’s and Cook stores
Gourmet snack provider, Made for Drink, will be expanding into the aisles of 500+ Sainbury’s stores, 300+ Waitrose stores and the entire Cook estate from 1 December 2019.
JF Hillebrand undergoes rebrand and outlines future growth plans
JF Hillebrand, a global logistics provider to the beverage industry, has rebranded and streamlined its affiliated companies for an enhanced customer experience in its 175th year.
Wild Life Botanicals combines low-alcohol wine with vitamin benefits
Co-founder of Cornish Sea Salt, Ellie Bradshaw, has launched her first brand, Wild Life Botanicals, an ultra-low sparkling wine enriched with vitamins and minerals.
Böen adds NFC technology to its bottles
Californian wine brand Böen has added NFC (Near Field Communication) technology to its bottles, taking consumers to the home of the Böen farmhouse with a tap of Böen’s cap.
Gaze Wine Cocktails: an innovative new beverage
Gaze Wine Cocktails blend quality California wine with natural ingredients to create wine cocktails targeted at wellness consumers.
Demand for organic wine forecast to grow
UK consumers are buying considerably more red wine than white/rosé.
Hey vegans, don’t milk it!
Now, I’m all for people making lifestyle choices (I, for example, go boxing several times a week, drink wine rather more frequently than that, enjoy the odd chicken curry but also love a mushroom risotto). But no one really needs to know that. Why would anyone care?
Japan’s Asahi buys Fuller’s for $327 million
Japanese brewer Asahi is buying the beer business of Britain’s Fuller Smith & Turner’s for £250 million ($327 million), in a deal that will allow Fuller’s to focus on its pub and hotel holdings.
Rise in food and drink acquisitions
2018 was another record year for food and drink industry transactions, with 777 registered in the bevblog.net mergers and acquisitions database, an average of 15 each week.
Out of the frying pan?
New year, new scare story. Well, not that new, exactly – but yet another reason to have consumers scratching their heads and rubbing their chins when next contemplating what to sling in their shopping baskets.