Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) has finished an funding in Lavit, a maker of multi-beverage, counter-top doling out machines.

Using globally patented generation, the Lavit machine we could customers make and pour their drink in seconds, by way of doling out a spread of chilly beverage choices “on-demand” on the faucet of a button and providing customisation of drinks in line with carbonation and flavour.

The partnership with Lavit will additional CCEP’s intent to discover and check new distributed supply answers as a key strategic direction in opposition to getting rid of packaging waste and lowering its carbon footprint, whilst offering customers with the ease, selection and enjoy they be expecting from ingesting Coca-Cola drinks.

The investment and partnership with CCEP will assist Lavit check and broaden new product functions and discover expansion alternatives by way of gaining additional perception into buyer and client call for for distributed supply answers. It follows CCEP Ventures’ contemporary acquisition of a 25% stake in Innovative Tap Solutions (ITS), making an investment within the corporate’s self-pour, self-pay drink doling out generation.

Graham Stokhuyzen, vice chairman of recent trade construction, CCEP, stated: “Decreasing our packaging use and waste is a core part of our strategy to reduce our carbon footprint. We will continue to develop and invest in “drinks on demand” distributed supply inventions to provide customers selection, personalisation and comfort in probably the most sustainable techniques conceivable. This can even allow us to scale back our use of unmarried use packaging.”

 

(+)