Huhtamaki to supply pint cups to Glastonbury

More than 100,000 revellers at Britain’s most famous music festival won’t go thirsty – thanks to a local company.

Gosport firm Huhtamaki has been given one of the most important jobs for Glastonbury, supplying the pint cups.

More than a million pints of cider and lager are expected to be knocked back at the four-day festival which gets under way tomorrow.

Trucks have been leaving the company’s warehouse in Rowner Road over the past week to ensure the massive order of paper-based cups, reaches the Somerset site in time.

Linda Salt, sales and marketing manager at Huhtamaki, said: ‘It’s great news that we are supplying the cups for this year’s Glastonbury festival.

‘We’re pleased that we are supplying the cups and we’re proud to be associated with this event.

‘Fingers crossed that it’s nice weather this year. It will be a fantastic festival.’

With hot weather predicted, festival organisers will look to cope with a huge demand for booze across the site’s 24 bars.

Experts believe more than 350,000 pints of cider and up to 750,000 pints of lager are set to be sunk during the festival, which has Blur, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Lily Allen, and The Prodigy on the bill.

Tim Hampson, beer correspondent for BBC Good Food Live, said: ‘Glastonbury is a great place for people to enjoy a few pints while they watch the acts on stage.

‘The festival lasts four days so even if everyone who goes only has a couple of pints a day they are going to need more than million cardboard cups to cope.’

This year’s event is expected to attract almost 140,000 music lovers and 40,000 workers to the 900-acre Worthy Farm. There will also be performances from Status Quo, Tom Jones, Madness, and Tony Christie.

FESTIVAL FACTS

The Glastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world.

The festival is best known for its music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts.

Glastonbury was heavily influenced by hippy ethics and the free festival movement in the 1970s, especially the Isle of Wight Festival.

Organiser Michael Eavis decided to host the first festival, then called Pilton Festival, after seeing an open air Led Zeppelin concert at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music in 1970.

Source: Portsmouth News