Beverage

Garden Grown Gin has launched Sydney’s first gin refilling station at The Drink Hive at The Cannery in Rosebery, where customers can fill their empty gin bottles at a reduced cost, while reducing waste.

Duxton Vineyards’ new 100 per cent vegan-friendly wine range ‘Rewild’, crafted with minimal intervention and “a genuine focus on sustainability,” is set to be launched from April 2022.

Innocent Bystander winery has released Who of Us, a “wicked new social game to explore with friends” that is enabled via scanning of a QR code on the wine bottle neck.

Brown Brothers has partnered with customer engagement platform Cellr to deliver the latest in digital packaging technology via a virtual gifting campaign.

Following the rebrand of Two-Blocks launched last year, Patrick of Coonawarra is transforming its Flagship range of premium wines into the Single Site range with a new look, label and name.

The Coca-Cola Company has made a commitment to deliver 25 per cent of its beverages in refillable bottles by 2030, up from a current 16 per cent, in response to a shareholder proposal.

Australian manufacturing performance software company OFS has expanded into the US market after signing a deal with Oregon-based craft brewery Pelican Brewing Company.

After successfully rolling out a beer can clip reuse and recycling program in selected BWS and Dan Murphy’s stores on Australia's east coast, Endeavour Group has expanded the scheme to SA and WA.

Mandatory Spirits Co has released three new flavours in its Bobtails pre-mixed cocktail brand, available in single-serve carton packs for the first time.

The team that brought to life the Share a Coke campaign is behind a new promotion for personalising VB stubby bottles. Labeltopia has partnered with Carlton & United Breweries to deliver the goods.

Aldi Australia will replace all plastic straws in its drinks range with paper alternatives in a bid to remove more than 40 million plastic straws annually, becoming the first supermarket in the country to do so.

De Bortoli’s 17 Trees Plant-A-Tree initiative has reached the 50,000 trees tree planting milestone, equivalent to filling 793 tennis courts with trees, since the launch of the initiative in 2020.

Jet Technologies is collaborating with leading Australian organic wine producer, Tamburlaine Organic Wines, to implement a range of innovative and eco-friendly wine packaging and technology solutions.

Cascade has ditched plastic shrink wrap packaging on its 6-packs for cardboard packs designed by Westrock, saving around half a million pieces of plastic from entering the environment each year.

Business growth and changing consumer preferences saw leading Australian brewery 4 Pines Brewing Company looking for a partner to develop a new filling line. Foodmach provided the solution.

Opal Specialty Packaging has used digital print technology to individualise De Bortoli's 2021 Wine Advent Calendar boxes, creating a unique mix of colours and decorations in different areas of each box.