Coca-Cola Great Britain is introducing a new slimline 250ml can across Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Coca-Cola Zero. This new pack is being introduced in addition to the standard 330ml can and reflects the company’s commitment to offering consumers a greater choice of refreshing products to suit all lifestyles. The 250ml can will be widely available […]
Chopped meat product Spam is being made available in plastic tubs for the first time in the brand’s 75-year history. The new easy-to-open tubs have been created by consultancy Sphere, and will be available from next month. Spam brand owner Hormel Foods says the move is a bid to ‘attract both new and lapsed users […]
If sharing fluids strikes you as icky, Coca-Cola’s shareable can may be just the thing. A simple twist and the 330-millilitre can splits in half, one for you and one for a friend. Ideally, you should only do this with one buddy, as the can doesn’t multiply any further. The idea of this shareable can […]
Mexican energy drink Gladiator has created a can that it claims can also act as a “Flash Drive”. If you’re wondering quite how this is possible, while the “Gladiator USB can” is not exactly a USB, it does feature a packaging innovation that gives the user storage when they need it. Users are directed to […]
Coors Light is on a mission to refresh the most people this summer and is pulling out all the stops to do it. Whether delivered by beer vending machine or dog sled, Coors Light is using cool and unexpected ways to arm as many legal-drinking-age consumers as possible with the World’s Most Refreshing Beer. It […]
Belvoir Fruit Farms, premium soft drinks producer, is launching its Elderflower pressé and Raspberry Lemonade in a 250ml can to cater for outlets that hanker after the Lincolnshire based company’s products but cannot stock them in glass bottles. Pev Manners, MD of Belvoir Fruit Farms, says: For some time now we have been approached by […]
Founders Brewing Co. will be offering this summer its seasonal “All Day IPA” for the first time ever in cans from Ball Corporation. “Founders Brewing Co.’s decision to offer its craft beer in Ball cans is a strong endorsement of the can as a sustainable, consumer-friendly package that can accompany craft beer consumers anywhere they […]
Budweiser beer is launching a new bowtie-shaped beer can, structured to mirror the brand’s logo. The can will launch in the US next month, but will not be available in other countries. Pat McGauley, vice president of innovation for Anheuser-Busch, Budweiser’s parent company, says, ‘This can is incomparable, like nothing you’ve ever seen before.’ He […]
US-based consultancy McLean Design has created packaging designs for new energy drink Popeye, based on a vintage comic-book style. The Popeye energy drink is launching in the US market, and is produced in California. McLean Design, which is also based in the state, was tasked with developing its packaging. The consultancy developed a comic-strip look […]