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Are any drink manufacturers fully vertically integrated? I think most of them outsource can and bottle manufacturing, even big manufacturers like Coca-Cola. They're in the business of making drinks, not making cans and bottles (which don't have any special features compared to cans and bottles used by other companies), so it makes sense to use a vendor that has experience in that area.
Coca-Cola atleast some plants have blow molders for plastic bottles. Making cans is a massive ordeal and requires its own plant, so if they have the space they could probably do it as well. A plastic blowmolder is under 100sqft. Makes more economical sense to ship in blanks and make your own than shipping 10x empty air volume.
Anheuser-Busch manufactures cans and bottles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anheuser-Busch#Other_operations
Coca Cola is unique in that the company itself only produces concentrated syrups which it sells to franchises that handle bottling.
Coca-Cola Canada makes their own bottles and packages cans and bottles as well, they also make their own “syrup” on site. IE they make their stuff for pop machines. Canning and bottling is only watering down that mix and carbonating it.
I see no reason why Coca Cola plants in the US wouldn’t bottle and can their own stuff as well. And also no reason why they can’t have a blow molder to make their own bottles. They aren’t that specialized pieces and the units less than 100sqft.
You can downvote me, but facts are facts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coca-Cola_Company#Bottlers
They even formed an initiative to temporarily own, consolidate, and accelerate franchises in order to get Coca-Cola out of the bottling business.
You realize in general means not in every case? In Canada and the USA, that’s not the case, they make their own syrup and fills cans and bottles.
Sure other countries may outweigh it, but large countries don’t operate that way.
Source, I’ve installed blow molders for bottling plants that mix their own syrups.
They have multiple lines, usually one for pop machine, two for plastic bottles and one for cans. Depending on the size and location they may also distribute stuff like Monster as well.
Now if you’re talking like a small town somewhere, shipping syrup is cheaper, so in specific cases (not in NA) it can make some sense to ship syrup and then add the water.
Pepsi-co more or less operates the same as well, they have blow molders on site for plastic bottles.