Trends in spirits come and go, but vodka endures. It has become increasingly interesting of late too, with new characterful spirits and a focus…
Trends in spirits come and go, but vodka endures. It has become increasingly interesting of late too, with new characterful spirits and a focus…
For the first time in a decade the UK beer market has shown two consecutive quarters of growth – led by retailers who champion premium bottled ale. The British Beer & Pub Association produces a quarterly beer barometer survey and it shows the total beer market grew 5.2{7c69fd72f8e2bab9ee87ef5a2685d86c0107c79a8a610a3574925e3ec9a3ba47} in the third quarter of 2013, its best performance this century. It then grew 0.8{7c69fd72f8e2bab9ee87ef5a2685d86c0107c79a8a610a3574925e3ec9a3ba47} in the fourth…
Pernod Ricard UK is putting the on-trade at the heart of its strategy for the next two years, managing director Denis O’Flynn has said. O’Flynn said the decision to reduce focus on the take-home market was to hone in on what he called the on-trade “opportunity”. He said: “The on-trade is the area we will be concentrating on over the next number of months. There…
The off-trade now accounts for 80% of spirits volumes, a report commissioned by First Drinks Brands has found. But the research, from Nielsen and CGA Strategy, found that the on-trade still makes up 56% of spirits sales by value. Speaking at the launch of First Drinks’ first Market Report on Thursday (July 21), sales director John Hyman said consumers are going out far less than…
