Thus key trends of beer market determining increase of glass container consumption are:
growing demand for license and premium beer;
reducing share of return glass containers;
construction of new breweries in provincial regions of Russian Federation.
According to Rosstat, production of vodka and liquors reached 119749 thousand decaliters in 2006. Estimated demand for transparent colorless 0.5 liter glass bottle for vodka and liquors is at least 2.4 billion units including return containers share of which constitutes 10–20%. Taking into consideration the fact that production of vodka has set on the level of 120000 – 125000 million decaliters annually no significant numeric increase of demand for glass containers can be expected in the nearest future – until 2010. Meanwhile requirements to quality and design of glass containers would get more severe.
In 2006 production of still/sparkling grape wines and other alcoholic drinks constituted aggregately 65396 thousand decaliters.
Recent trend of Russian wine market is usage of aseptic cardboard package TetraPak – in 2006 about 10000 thousand decaliters or 100 million liters were packed into it. This package type is used practically by all large market operators. Popularity of TetraPak in wine industry is explained by market experts by convenience, longer shelf life and attractive price****. Considering all the above, consumption of 0.5 liter glass bottles by the review market in 2006 can be estimated at 740 million units.