As beverage-makers develop new offerings to meet a growing number of consumer need states and drinking occasions, contract packaging and manufacturing is becoming a go-to solution for many brand owners. According to industry experts, contract packaging and manufacturing operations provide a solution for a plethora of beverage categories and have been challenged to evolve their offerings to include even more types of beverages and packaging styles.
While noting that it is difficult to measure the amount of products that are contract packaged each year, New York-based Beverage Marketing Corporation (BMC) estimates that approximately 15 percent of all U.S. beverage production, excluding dairy, is contract packed in its October 2016 report titled “Private Label Beverages & Contract Packing in the U.S.”