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Molson Coors Beverage Company is investing CAD 100 million ($82.4 million approx.) in its Canadian hard seltzer business, in a move that will increase production capacity by 300%.
Molson Coors introduced hard seltzers in Canada in March and claims that the launch “is off to an incredibly strong start”.
As well as increasing hard seltzer production capacity in its Canadian operations by 300%, the investment will also help Molson Coors to balance production in the country between owned facilities and trusted third parties.
The company’s Toronto brewery will be a major beneficiary of the investment and Molson Coors expects to be producing Vizzy and Coors Seltzer in-house at the facility as early as winter next year.
A portion of the CAD 100 million investment will be used to upgrade technical fermentation and packaging systems.
In addition, Molson Coors plans to install new filtration technologies and a new can line, flavour laboratory and blender in the Toronto brewery for packaging seltzers and other beverages.
“Hard seltzers are fairly new in Canada, but Vizzy and Coors Seltzer have already proven to be hits,” said Frederic Landtmeters, president of Molson Coors in Canada.
“Quadrupling our production capacity will allow us to make a lot more of our highly sought-after hard seltzers and better equip us to meet consumer demand well into the future.”
Last year, Molson Coors increased production capacity for its Vizzy, Coors Seltzer and Blue Moon LightSky products by more than 400% at its Fort Worth and Milwaukee breweries, and the company claims that its share of the country’s hard seltzer segment doubled in 2020.
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