At the beginning of this year, Grupa Żywiec decided to increase transaction prices for bottles. The company argued that “this decision was mainly due to an increase in the price of bottles from suppliers”. Here, the increase in prices, in turn, resulted from the cost of production. In addition, some glass producers have disappeared from the market.
Now in Europe we can talk about a real bottle crisis, and Germany is an example of this. “This year it happened that individual breweries could not fulfill all orders because they ran out of empty containers on certain days,” Holger Eichel, general director of the Federation of German Breweries, told the dpa news agency.
dw.com writes: “European glass factories have reduced their production capacity due to high prices, while many glass factories in Ukraine and Russia have stopped supplying bottles since the start of the war in February 2022. As a result, prices and demand for reusable bottles have skyrocketed.”
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It is also difficult for breweries to get used bottles off the market. “People shop less, so the return of empty packaging is slower; many customers visit supermarkets and drink shops less often than before,” added Holger Eichel.
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