In this annual feature, Beverage Industry highlights the attributes that define the top packages of 2023.

Beverage subscriptions and customizable multipacks have become more popular. In turn, packaging producers must account for these multipacks of varying sizes.

Fourth Wave Wines has forged a new path in sustainable packaging, with its launch of the label-less wine, Crate, designed by sustainable drinks branding specialists Denomination. 

In the name of sustainability beverage manufacturers are taking a proactive approach with packaging innovations. With Beverage Industry’s annual Best Packages of Year feature, the editors selected a collection of packaging releases that highlight the sustainable packaging efforts that beverage-makers are applying to their brands.

Beverage-makers looking to reduce the amount of single-use plastic for their products are adapting their secondary packaging approach.

Coors Light announced it will eliminate plastic rings from packaging globally, where Molson Coors owns brewing operations. To support the move to more sustainable packaging, Molson Coors Beverage Co., Chicago, will invest $85 million, enabling Coors Light to begin the transition to fully recyclable and sustainably sourced cardboard-wrap carriers later this year.

An increasing demand for reusable packaging has driven the development of DW Reusables NV’s lastest innovation: Bottlebee.

The KHS Group released its Innopack Kisters Carton Nature Packer (CNP). 

Labatt Blue and Labatt Blue Light recently rolled out new recycled and photodegradable green plastic carrier rings: Hi-Cone RingCycles.

Graphic Packaging International partnered with Estrella Damm to replace its plastic shrinkwrap packaging, equivalent to 99 tons annually, with paperboard alternatives on its multipack cans.