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Ball Corporation supplies the aluminum cans and lids that beverage companies fill with soft drinks, beer, energy drinks and other beverages. Beverage packaging generates most of its revenue, with North and Central America its largest business, alongside operations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South America. It also has a smaller business supplying aluminum aerosol containers and recloseable bottles for personal care and household products. It has sold its former aerospace business.
Customers pay Ball for the packaging, often under long-term supply contracts; multi-year agreements dominate its North and Central American beverage business. Most packaging sales go to a relatively limited group of major companies. Anheuser-Busch InBev, Coca-Cola Bottlers’ Sales & Services Company LLC and Red Bull, together with their affiliates, each account for a substantial share of revenue. Keeping these customers depends partly on meeting contractual quality, volume and market-pricing requirements.
The business depends on demand for aluminum beverage containers and access to aluminum from relatively few suppliers. Most beverage-container contracts pass aluminum price changes through to customers, limiting Ball’s exposure to the metal’s price, although delays in passing on costs can squeeze profitability.
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Ball’s results hinge on beverage-can volumes and customers’ packaging choices, including privately held Red Bull, whose affiliates accounted for 11% of Ball’s 2025 sales.
Crown Holdings competes with Ball worldwide to sell metal beverage cans and lids to beverage producers, putting them up against each other on price, quality and service. Watch Crown’s beverage-can capacity expansion: it shows where this rival is adding supply to meet customer demand.
Ardagh Metal Packaging S.A. competes with Ball for beverage producers’ can orders in North America, Europe and Brazil. Its faster volume growth in specialty cans than standard cans offers a signal of how customers’ packaging choices are shifting in markets Ball also serves.
Ball depends on packaging purchases by beer producer Anheuser-Busch InBev and its affiliates, which accounted for 15% of Ball’s 2025 sales. Watch its beer volumes and packaging choices for clues to demand for Ball’s beverage cans.
Coca-Cola Company’s beverage brands drive bottlers’ volumes and therefore matter to Ball’s can demand; Coca-Cola also sells finished drinks to retailers and distributors. Watch packaged-beverage volumes across its bottling system: Coca-Cola Bottlers’ Sales & Services and its affiliates—not necessarily Coca-Cola Company itself—accounted for 14% of Ball’s 2025 sales.
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Ball’s report will show whether more beverage-can shipments and a stronger product mix are growing sales, or higher aluminum prices are mainly lifting both sales and costs.
Separate beverage-can shipment growth and product mix from sales changes driven by aluminum prices. More shipments or a better mix would show customers buying more or choosing higher-value products; sales rising mainly with aluminum prices, while costs rise too, would not show stronger demand or profit. The conclusion is whether growth comes from underlying volume and mix or mostly from passing through raw-material prices.
