our expertise in drinks
CULTURE
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” This adage underscores that culture is the driving force behind a company’s success, shaping behavior, engagement, and alignment towards goals. A strong culture ensures adaptability and resilience, essential for thriving in a dynamic business landscape.
We help businesses build a culture of sustainability by integrating it into core values and practices, empowering employees to embrace and drive meaningful change.
packaging
Packaging is sexy, the heart of any good drinks brand, and there’s nothing sexier than a beautiful bottle with minimal impact. We believe that we don’t have a waste problem, we have a design problem, and great design is essential both for sustainability and brand building.
We’ll work with you to cut through the noise, look at the innovations available, create great design, and find the right solutions for your brand from bottle and gift packs to POS and merch.
COMMUNICATION
Greenwashing is everywhere you look, everyone is starting to see through the crap, and thankfully there is extensive legislation on its way that is aimed at stopping it.
We can keep you ahead of the incoming rules and regulations by helping you to create authentic storytelling with transparent marketing and to reduce the impact of your events.
FACILITIES
Distillery, brewery, or winery, whatever production facilities you use, the energy and water requirements to turn sugars into alcohol are significant.
The double benefit is that improvements in efficiency and the reduction of energy & water use are not only good for the planet, they’re great for cutting costs too and we have a network of operational experts to help.
Liquid
Drinks start their life as an agricultural product and not only has the biggest impact of any part of your product, it’s also the area that is most at risk from climate change, biodiversity loss, and water insecurity.
Agriculture doesn’t have to be a net loss to the environment and farmers, regenerative systems, and agroforestry can be a net benefit as well as creating more resilient crops, reducing your exposure to supply chain risk.
AWARDS & CERTIFICATION
Awards and certifications are important to build trust with both your customers and the general public, whether it’s a Footprint Drinks Award or a Plastic Free certification.
Avallen Calvados has won many awards and is BCorp certified, so we possess the know-how to help you, if these are some of your goals.
Contact us
It all starts with getting in touch. We don’t bite and we would love to hear from you about how we can use our expertise and experience to help your business. As Michael Jordan said ‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take’.