FRENCH CAN MARKET SHOWS ‘ENERGETIC GROWTH’ DESPITE COVID AND UKRAINE WAR, SAY EXPERTS

The Covid-19 crisis has not stopped the dynamism of the drinks can market in France – where six billion cans are produced every year, indeed it seems to have strengthened sales. More than two drinks out of 10 – 22.3% – sold in French shops in 2021 were in cans, according to France’s drinks can industry association, La Boîte Boisson. And when bars, cafés and restaurants reopened, cans still outperformed plastic bottles (+0.5%) and glass (+3.3%), with the 25cl can doing particularly well (+20.5%), in food service sales. “People are using more metal ...


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