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ADVANCE PURCHASE OF THE 2019 FOCUS REPORT
The answers you need
This report is perfect for existing brands looking to outsource incremental volume rather than build brick and mortar bottling facilities, beverage manufacturers planning geographical expansion through the use of contract packers located in key markets, investors conducting due diligence on start-up costs associated with beverage production, investors considering investment in manufacturing facilities and suppliers who serve the contract packing market. It answers a broad range of questions including:
- Which contract packers have the right product and processing capabilities for my brand?
- Which co-packers also offer private label products?
- Which co-packers produce the products I want in the packages I need?
- Where can I find a contract packer with the capability of handling pouches (or aluminum, kegs, etc.)?
- Which packers can handle frozen cocktail mixers (or energy drinks or nutritional drinks or wine and spirit based beverages or energy shots, etc.)?
- Which locations offer enough hot-fill lines to meet my needs?
- What size cold fill glass can they provide? Can they work with 3-up labels?
- Which facilities offer crimp capping (or Lug, ROPP or Sport)? In which cap sizes?
This contract packing database features
The Excel-based Contract Packing Directory Database surveys more than 185 contract packers. This database can also be used as the basis for a contact management system. Fields of information can be easily added as required by the user. Detailed listings offer various aspects of product and processing capabilities, # of hot and cold fill lines, labeling and capping capabilities and much more including:
- Locations and contact information for packers in the U.S. and Canada.
- Contract fillers' product production capabilities across a broad range of beverage categories including carbonated soft drinks, dairy, beer, bottled water, tea, wine and spirits based beverages, nutritional beverages, cocktail mixes, frozen concentrates, energy drinks, energy shots, enhanced waters, fruit beverages and more.
- An indication of contract fillers ability to address various processing requirements including hot fill, cold fill, aseptic, HPP, HYPA, heat sealed, ambient and carbonation, cross-referenced by capabilities for filling various packaging types including PET, HDPE, paperboard, can, aseptic, glass, pouch, polypropylene, aluminum, kegs etc.
- Indications of package material and container size, cap size and labeling capabilities.
- Ability to work with various closure types.
- Offerings by package type and size.
- Certifications such as Kosher, Halal, Organic, SQF, HACCP, etc.
