Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

Multiples: Green moves on Aldi wine aisle

Published: 11 April, 2024

James Bayley talks us through Aldi’s new paper wine bottles and how the move could revolutionise supermarket drinks packaging.

Australian brand buys first ‘Frugal Bottle’ machine

Published: 26 February, 2024

British sustainable packaging company Frugalpac will expand to the Southern Hemisphere following an agreement with Australian drinks brand Mother of Pearl Vodka.

Broadland Drinks launches ‘one-stop shop for cutting carbon’

Published: 16 November, 2023

Broadland Drinks, a Harpers Sustainability Charter Signatory, has today (16 November) launched its ‘one-stop shop to cut carbon’ – offering lightweight glass bottles, cans, bag in box (BiB), pouches, kegs and paper bottles to help retailers reduce carbon output.

Broadland inks major contract with Frugalpac

Published: 11 October, 2023

Norfolk-based drinks producer and co-packer Broadland Drinks is set to become the UK’s largest filler of ‘Frugal Bottles’ in a milestone partnership with Journey’s End and British sustainable packaging company Frugalpac.

Packaging: Weighing up the options

Published: 30 August, 2023

With glass in the firing line and alternative packaging now routinely found in supermarkets, Jo Gilbert asks: is there a price ceiling for consumer buy-in for alt formats?

Alchemy joins Harpers Sustainability Charter with paper-packaging initiative

Published: 02 June, 2023

Alchemy Wines is the latest signatory to the Harpers Sustainability Charter, an initiative designed to galvanise the trade into climate action.

Paper wine bottle lands in Ocado

Published: 20 April, 2022

Anglo-Italian wine brand, When in Rome, is about to debut its paper bottle via a national listing in Ocado, where it is due to land sometime this month.