Wine bottle sourcing for France
LIFA coordinated bottle-manufacturer checks and transit trials for a French wine program, reducing breakage from 2.1% to 0.3%.
- The buyer
- A Bordeaux, France wine group exporting to 30 markets.
- The product scope
- Wine bottles, corks, and packaging; 1.2 million bottles across 3 formats. Program value $1.9M.
What needed to change?
Glass quality variance caused 2.1% breakage and label misalignment; export packaging failed drop tests in transit trials.
How LIFA managed the work
We qualified 2 glassworks with consistent wall-thickness control.
We verified glass quality and dimensional tolerance per format.
We specified export packaging and ran transit trials.
We structured deliveries around the harvest and bottling calendar.
Breakage 0.3%; zero transit failures; the group renewed at $2.4M for the next vintage.
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What this project shows
Wall thickness and format dimensions affected both bottling and packing. Testing the complete shipment arrangement connected the glass specification to transit results.
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