Soft Drinks Packaging

Sustainability is a major driver of innovation across soft drinks, with all major companies looking to introduce or expand their use of recyclable packaging and to use an increasing percentage of recycled material in PET bottles. Coca Cola’s World ...

Western Europe is the biggest coffee market in the world. It has been experiencing a strong premiumisation trend, contributing to an increase in high-quality offerings and higher expectations from consumers. Sustainability concerns are pushing the ...

Within pack types, innovations are changing the way consumers perceive PET bottles, as these become more recyclable without compromising their functionality. Coca-Cola Amatil’s 600ml bottles are now 100% recyclable and it plans to extend this ...

Soft drinks is facing a difficult period owing to Argentina’s struggling economy, with purchasing power remaining low. Inflation is high, fuelled by economic reforms, which have increased utility bills. As a result, total unit volume declined for ...

Growth for soft drinks packaging continued to improve in 2019, thanks to a stronger economic performance for the country. This is encouraging impulse purchases and in turn boosting on-the-go consumption. Companies thus strongly focused on innovation ...

During the review period, there were significant shifts in the packaging of 100% juice and nectars. In 100% juice, several players introduced shaped liquid cartons, including Jumex Fresco and Jumex Jugo, Ocean Spray, and Sonrisa Natura (Valle ...

Rigid plastic packaging, mainly in the form of PET bottles, accounts for almost half of packaging volumes in soft drinks. This strong position is due to the many benefits this type of packaging offers to manufacturers, distributors, retailers and ...

Sustainability has become a major theme within soft drinks packaging, with many consumers very aware of problems such as litter, “plastic soup” in our oceans, and issues surrounding single use plastic. Global warming and excess waste have both become...

Growing consumer awareness of plastic pollution has, along with media attention on the subject, been encouraging manufacturers to innovate their packaging types in order to be more environmentally sustainable. Indeed, all the major players in the ...

The main growth driver in soft drinks packaging continues to be PET, particularly within juice where it is increasingly replacing glass bottles and in particular brick liquid cartons. This trend is being seen in both ambient and chilled juice but was...

Health awareness is rising among Indian consumers and this is having a major impact on the development of soft drinks packaging. With virtually all bottled water in the country packaged in PET bottles, rising demand for bottled water is underpinning ...

Metal beverage cans are underperforming other packaging types in most soft drinks categories but this remains a very significant pack type for carbonates and has returned to growth in 2019 after seeing a decrease in the previous two years, due to ...

In China, although environmental awareness remains weak among local consumers, global manufacturers are gradually adopting environmentally-friendly approaches in packaging production to raise consumer awareness of plastic waste’s harmful impact on ...

Moderate growth will be seen in soft drinks packaging over the forecast period despite Japan’s declining population. The main reason is continued migration from tea in hot drinks to RTD tea in soft drinks in the off-trade channel. The shift is ...

The Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulation is set to require producers and retailers to take greater responsibility for waste generated by products, while also requiring producers to increase the percentage of recyclable content used in ...

PET bottles remain the dominant packaging type in soft drinks and are used in the majority of soft drinks products, being particularly strong in bottled water, carbonates, RTD tea and sports drinks. This pack type is popular due to its versatility. ...

2018 saw the implementation of a sugar tax in the Philippines. This increased unit prices in soft drinks, and thus negatively impacted demand for both soft drinks and soft drinks packaging, resulting in total unit volume decline. Soft drinks ...

There is a strong focus on environmental protection in Sweden, with Returpack playing a key role in minimising the environmental impact of packaging waste. Returpack operates the Swedish return system, which puts requirements on importers and ...

Consumers are increasingly busy and are resorting to consuming soft drinks on-the-go, with a growing number of time-constricted consumers wanting easy portability. This has increased demand for smaller, more convenient pack sizes. Especially in major...

With the Malaysian government planning to ban single-use plastic by 2030, more rulings are being established along the roadmap for this target. For instance, a ban on plastic straws was introduced in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor in 2019, along with a ...