Ball Postpones New Minimum Order Requirements for Non-Contracted Customers to March 1

Dear Client: A couple months back, the world’s largest can manufacturer, Ball Corporation, informed its brewery customers that the minimum order on printed cans would increase significantly at the start of the New Year. Starting January 1, brewery customers would have to order five truckloads worth of cans instead of one, according to the November notice from Ball, which added that it would “no longer be able to warehouse inventory on behalf of [its] customers.”  But fortunately for small brewers,