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Australian wine drinkers yet to embrace wine in cans

Awareness of alternative wine formats, including cans and casks is rising in this new atmosphere of pragmatism and eco-awareness in Australia. So why aren’t more people buying them? It’s a good time to be thinking about wine packaging formats.…
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Growing opportunity for wine in cans across markets, with the exception of in Canada

Awareness, purchase and purchase consideration of wine in a can: 2020 vs 2017
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Pandemic unlocking growing opportunity for alternative wine formats in US and Canada

Wine consumers in the US and Canada are reappraising their relationship with different wine formats – cans, box wine and other non-glass formats – now seeing them in a new and more positive light ‘Never let a crisis go to waste’ is…
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Alternative formats for wine gain traction in UK

Over the past three years the UK’s wine drinkers have grown more open-minded about alternative wine packaging formats that save weight, offer value and avoid waste; and the recent lockdown may have boosted this trend The UK wine market has…
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Sweden’s alternative view of wine packaging

The Swedish wine market continues to provide promising opportunities for alternative packaging formats beyond 75cl glass and bag-in-box and compared with other global markets, there is much more openness and willingness to purchase alternative…
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Good things come in average sized packages

Younger drinkers in the UK lead the opportunity for considering alternative wine packaging in the future, even though those who purchase wine in formats beyond the standard 75cl bottles remains small Creating new ways of serving and delivering…
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The young and alternative

Young consumers in Australia are becoming more comfortable buying wine in alternative size formats compared to their older peers as ‘wine in a can’ infiltrates the market. What does this mean for the standard 750ml bottle? Will we…
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Press Release: Young consumers in Australia are more comfortable buying wine in alternative size formats compared to their older peers, according to a new report by Wine Intelligence

For Immediate Release: Thursday 12 April 2018 Young consumers in Australia are more comfortable buying wine in alternative size formats compared to their older peers, according to a new report by Wine Intelligence The most recent report published…
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Cork is still king in the consumer’s mind, but how do other closures stack up across the world? Cork is an extraordinary substance. It is light, flexible, can withstand forces of compression and tension that would destroy many other…