FindYourCopacker
US beverage contract manufacturing

Most co-packers won't run under 2,000 cases. A few will run one pallet.

Nobody publishes minimums. Brands spend weeks calling around to find out, and co-packers field enquiries they were never going to take. We publish the numbers, with the source and the date we checked — for every US beverage co-packer and drink manufacturer we track.

Lowest published minimum1pallet
Industry norm, aluminum can2,000–5,000cases / SKU
Formula approved to first run8–12weeks
Vocabulary

"Drink manufacturer" and "co-packer" — same job, two names

Search "drink manufacturer" and you'll get two different answers mixed together: the global brands that make their own product (Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, AB InBev), and the contract facilities that make a drink on behalf of someone else. This site tracks the second kind — also called co-packer, co-manufacturer, contract manufacturer, or contract bottler. Same equipment, same process, four names for the same relationship: you own the brand and the recipe, they own the line.

The spread

Where the minimums actually sit

The gap between the smallest and the largest run this market will accept is roughly a hundredfold. Almost none of it is published.

Florida Canning1 pallet
Craftek160 cases
Small-run tier200 cases
Islamorada500 cases
Glass / PET floor1,000 cases
Can floor2,000 cases
Can ceiling5,000 cases
Published by a named facility Industry norm, quoted across the trade

Logarithmic scale — one pallet on the left, five thousand cases on the right, roughly a hundredfold apart. A pallet is plotted at its approximate case equivalent.

Full breakdown — beverage co-packer minimum order quantities →

Coverage

Where the co-packers actually are

Two hundred and forty verified facilities across forty-seven states. One tile per state, labelled with its count — no shade to decode. Highlighted states have their own page.

US beverage co-packers by state ME — 3 facilities ME 3 VT — 2 facilities VT 2 NH — 2 facilities NH 2 WA — 4 facilities WA 4 ID — 2 facilities ID 2 MT — 1 facility MT 1 ND — none on record ND MN — 5 facilities MN 5 WI — 11 facilities WI 11 MI — 6 facilities MI 6 NY — 14 facilities NY 14 MA — 4 facilities MA 4 RI — 2 facilities RI 2 OR — 6 facilities OR 6 NV — 4 facilities NV 4 WY — none on record WY SD — 1 facility SD 1 IA — 2 facilities IA 2 IL — 8 facilities IL 8 IN — 3 facilities IN 3 OH — 5 facilities OH 5 PA — 12 facilities PA 12 NJ — 8 facilities NJ 8 CT — 5 facilities CT 5 CA — 47 facilities CA 47 UT — 4 facilities UT 4 CO — 7 facilities CO 7 NE — 1 facility NE 1 MO — 5 facilities MO 5 KY — 4 facilities KY 4 WV — 2 facilities WV 2 VA — 4 facilities VA 4 MD — 6 facilities MD 6 DE — none on record DE AZ — 3 facilities AZ 3 NM — 3 facilities NM 3 KS — 1 facility KS 1 AR — 2 facilities AR 2 TN — 5 facilities TN 5 NC — 10 facilities NC 10 SC — 3 facilities SC 3 TX — 17 facilities TX 17 OK — 3 facilities OK 3 LA — 3 facilities LA 3 MS — 2 facilities MS 2 AL — 1 facility AL 1 GA — 3 facilities GA 3 AK — 1 facility AK 1 HI — 2 facilities HI 2 FL — 11 facilities FL 11
1–23–56–910+none on record
Every state we have verified, sized by nothing and labelled by count — a tile carries its own number, so you never have to read a value off a shade. Facilities operating in more than one state are counted in each, so the tiles total more than 240. Highlighted tiles link to a state page. Three states hold nothing on record and that is a finding, not a gap: Delaware, North Dakota and Wyoming have no verifiable third-party beverage co-packer.

The full directory, state by state →

Why this exists

Three numbers decide the shortlist

Minimum run, whether formulation is included, and lead time. A brand that knows those three can rule out two-thirds of the market in an afternoon instead of six weeks of calls.

They're almost never published. Directories list a company name and a sentence. Consultancies hold the information behind a contact form. So the calls get made anyway, to the wrong facilities.

Guide: how to find a beverage co-packer →

How we handle what we don't know

Gaps are marked, not filled

Every entry carries its source and the date it was last checked. Where a figure isn't published, the cell says so. We don't estimate a minimum and present it as fact — a wrong number here costs somebody a wasted quarter.

Run a facility? Send us your current numbers and we'll correct the entry, with your name on it. No charge, no listing fee.

If you're launching a drink

Find a co-packer that will take your run size

Tell us the product and the volume. We come back with facilities that can actually run it — not a list of everyone in the state.

We pass your requirements to facilities that match, and never to anyone else. No fee to you, ever. How we handle your data.

If you run a line

Get brand enquiries matched to what you run

Brands arrive here looking for a facility — they tell us the category, the format, the volume and the timeline. When one matches what you run, we send it to you. Each enquiry goes to a maximum of three facilities.

Your listing is free and always will be.
Matched enquiries are $79/month for founding members — and you pay nothing until we send you the first one. How it works →

No card, no commitment. We never pass your details to a brand without asking you first.

Everything we've published

Start wherever you are

Eleven guides and reference tables, all built on the same verified base. Nothing here is estimated — every figure carries its source and the date we checked it.

If you're working it out

How to start a beverage company →
The whole path from idea to first run, and where most founders stall.

Beverage contract manufacturing, in plain English →
What a co-packer does, full-service vs filling-only, why minimums exist.

How to find a beverage co-packer →
The method: what to ask, in what order, and what rules a facility out.

If you want the numbers

The full US directory →
All 240 verified facilities, state by state, with the minimum where it's published.

Minimum order quantities →
39 facilities that publish a minimum, smallest first. Nobody else lists these.

Who actually formulates →
123 facilities offering formulation — and which ones also fill in-house.

Kombucha co-packers →
Cold brew & RTD coffee co-packers →
Energy drink co-packers →
Functional beverage co-packers →
Hard seltzer co-packers →
Craft soda & CSD co-packers →
Juice co-packers →
Spirits contract bottlers →
Contract brewing companies →
Iced tea co-packers →
RTD co-packers →
Bottled water co-packers →
Wine co-packers →
Hard cider co-packers →
Mobile canning operators →
20 verified operators who bring the line to you, across 12 states.

Beverage co-packers in Florida →
The first state we covered, because it holds the lowest published minimums.

Beverage co-packers in Texas →
17 facilities, and the state where the alcohol capacity is: 9 run RTD, spirits, wine or beer.

Beverage co-packers in California →
47 facilities — the widest spread of scale in the country, from one bottle to 1.5 million sq ft.

Beverage co-packers in Wisconsin →
The state that actually publishes its minimums: 4 of 10 name a figure.

Beverage co-packers in New York →
Beverage co-packers in New Jersey →
Beverage co-packers in Illinois →
Beverage co-packers in Colorado →
Beverage co-packers in Oregon →
Beverage co-packers in Maryland →
Beverage co-packers in Ohio →
Beverage co-packers in Michigan →
Beverage co-packers in Minnesota →
Beverage co-packers in Connecticut →
Beverage co-packers in Massachusetts →
Beverage co-packers in Pennsylvania →
Added 21 August 2026 Beverage co-packers in Tennessee →
Beverage co-packers in Missouri →
Beverage co-packers in Utah →
Beverage co-packers in South Carolina →
Beverage co-packers in Kentucky →