GENERAL BEVERAGE SRL

Distribution of cold and hot drinks by dispenser

GENERAL BEVERAGE is the leading company in the distribution of cold and hot drinks through innovative dispensers and sustainable metal water bottles for companies of all sectors: customized solutions with a high quality service ideal for company canteens, offices, coworking areas, waiting rooms, work areas, implemented through the IOPlasticFree project, which aims to eliminate plastic bottles and all beverage packaging from their distribution chain.

GENERAL BEVERAGE directly produces both the products and the machines granted on loan for use, manages 22,000 machines on the Italian and European territory and supplies water and drinks in plastic-free mode every year in over 120 million meals and 60,000 breakfasts, offering a perfect service for collective, tourist and commercial catering, hospitals, retirement homes.

All the products can be customized to meet the needs of each specific market, based on the communication and sustainability needs of companies; a direct service guarantees technical assistance and ordinary and extraordinary maintenance of all equipment.

The IOPlasticFree project is divided into three elements connected to each other and of simple realization:

• FreeBeverage Mensa solution - elimination of packaged water and beverages through self-service dispensers placed in the canteen that distribute water and quality drinks for free with disposable glasses
  
• IOPura solution Working environments - elimination of water bottles in all work environments by distributing refrigerated and room temperature microfiltered water, carbonated water and even hot water
  
• IOPlasticFree Bottle solution - customized steel or aluminum water bottles provided as part of the FreeBeverage or IOPura service
  

GENERAL BEVERAGE is particularly attentive to social and environmental sustainability and is the ideal partner for companies that share these values: thanks to innovative production and distribution systems, it contributes to the reduction of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere; GENERAL BEVERAGE is a Fairtrade® licensee and a member of the Fairtrade consortium Italy and collaborates with Universities and Research Institutes in the nutritional and technological fields. Furthermore, it has obtained important institutional awards related to the theme of sustainable development.

For the purposes of the environmental balance, each year GENERAL BEVERAGE can provide its customers with prevention data relating to tons of packaging waste, CO2 emissions, transport and oil consumption saved thanks to the application of the IOPlasticFree project.