Ball Hikes Printed Can Order Minimums, Leaving Craft Brewers Scrambling

Dear Client:  Ball dropped some heavy news on “dozens, if not hundreds, of breweries nationwide” this week, according to Westword, as the world’s largest can manufacturer informed its customers that the minimum order on printed cans is increasing five times come January 1. The order minimum on printed cans previously stood at one truckload or 204,000 cans, but as Ball looks “to more effectively serve [its] non-contracted customer base” in this “tightly constrained supply environment,” it will now require “a