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Why the soft drinks category is trapped in a plastic corner - Sustainability Spotlight
Faced with relentless campaigning and mounting public concern about plastic pollution, soft drinks companies have no choice but to act to mitigate the environmental impact of their packaging.
'Healthy alcohol - the trend to watch in 2019? - NPD trends
The prospect of 'healthy alcohol' may sound like an oxymoron, given new global health warnings about alcohol consumption. But, alcohol companies are doubling down on efforts to ameliorate health concerns with a new generation of healthy alcohol.
Diageo Performance Trends 2014-2018 - results data
just-drinks picks through Diageo's performance over the past five years for the trends set to affect the group, specifically, and the global spirits category, more broadly.
Where can RTD and cider categories find future growth? - Research in Focus
The world's RTD brands can benefit from a growing market over the next few years, but divergent trends involving premiumisation and health consciousness will create varied conditions in the category's major markets.
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Beverage Industry Insights
The future of cannabis in the drinks industry
The future of cannabis in the food and beverage industry will be worth billions. In fact, the continued legalisation of the drug for recreat...
What will be Ian Curle's Edrington legacy?
2018 is the year a CEO exodus ripped through the spirits industry. Constellation's Rob Sands, Beam Suntory's Matt Shattock and Brown-Forman'...
2019 - The year of at-home drinks machines - Focus
As in-home technology becomes increasingly sophisticated, consumers continue to look for ways to entertain in their own space. Here, just-dr...
How beer faces the growth challenges of tomorrow
Bringing the curtain down on 2018, our resident beer commentator, Stephen Beaumont, looks at the growth-driving strategies of the past and p...
The beer category in 2019 - just-drinks predicts
In just-drinks' beer review of 2018, we looked back at the year just passed. But what is in store for 2019? We take a peek into our crystal...
The beer category in 2018 - Review
As the end of the year approaches, just-drinks takes a four-part look at the stories that made the headlines in 2018 across the global drink...
Why Australia will be the wine to watch in China in 2019 - Analysis 6 Dec 18
Australia's wine producers will be looking forward to 2019, as wine tariff rates in China, the industry's largest export market, hit the maximum benefit next year from the Free Trade Agreement signed three years ago.
Is craft spirits approaching a reset moment? - Comment 4 Dec 18
The recent bankruptcy filing by Death's Door Spirits Co in the US has prompted spirits commentator Richard Woodard to look more closely at the craft end of the category. Is reality starting to bite?
Thought Leaders
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Over the past 100 years, RASTAL has become a highly regarded partner to renowned clients operating in the national and international beverage arena, in the hospitality ...
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Consumers world-wide are looking for sugar-reduced and zero-sugar products that still have the familiar sweet taste we all know and love. Stevia not only provides that sugar-...
Drinks Industry News
Drinks firms must consider a world without plastic
just-drinks.com editorial team | 12 Dec 18
Food and drinks producers must challenge their suppliers to produce more environmentally friendly packaging now or risk being at the mercy of a future ‘plastic tax’ according to the the latest report from FUTURES - the new insights service from just-food and just-drinks.
Patron Tequila CEO Ed Brown to step down
Andy Morton | 12 Dec 18
Ed Brown, who led Patron Tequila from an upstart spirits company to a multi-billion-dollar takeover by Bacardi, is to step down as CEO and president.
Pernod Ricard hits back at activist investor swipe
Lucy Britner | 12 Dec 18
Pernod Ricard has defended its financial record after an activist investor called for the company to sharpen up or continue to lose out to its competitors.
Recent News - (Updated: 4:31pm 13 Dec 2018)
Coca-Cola brings in Brent Hastie to run Bodyarmor
Carlsberg buys stake in Super Bock Group owner
LVMH calls for startups in luxury innovation push
Dry January expected to pull in 10% of UK drinkers
Halewood turns on taps for John Crabbie whisky
Ballantine’s Warming Spices Edition - NPD
Beverage Industry Interviews
Amber Beverage Group is a good example of a mid-tier alcohol company. Part of the SPI Group, the company employs around 2,000 across its production sites in the Baltics, Russia, Mexico and the UK. It also distributes global brands including its own Riga Black Balsam and Moskovskaya vodkas across the world. According to CEO Seymour Ferreira, Amber prides itself on having global reach while remaining small enough to be as agile as a start-up. Earlier this month, just-drinks sat down with Ferreira to talk about how to compete with the giants of the industry, the difficulties of finding good distributors and why cannabis and low-alcohol offer attractive growth for the future.
Today, Bacardi has released a 51-year-old single malt Scotch from its Craigellachie distillery in Speyside, Scotland - the company's oldest single malt release so far. In a rare move, Bacardi has chosen to give away the expression free of charge. In an exclusive interview with just-drinks, the company's global brand director for malts, Ian Taylor, outlines the strategy behind the decision and sheds some light on Bacardi's play in single malts.
PepsiCo is to take its Nutrition Greenhouse accelerator programme to North America after launching the initiative in Europe, where it is in its second year. Dean Best spoke to PepsiCo executive Daniel Grubbs about why the US food and drinks giant is bringing the scheme to its domestic market, what it has learnt so far and why such programmes are important strategically to one of the largest players in the sector.
just-drinks Blog
Starbucks jumps on gin bandwagon
Lucy Britner | 14 Mar 18Starbucks has become the latest company to tap into the gin craze, with the launch of Starbucks Reserve Gin Barrel-Aged Cold Brew.
Feeling Blue on Monday? Help is at hand
Olly Wehring | 15 Jan 18It may not be scientific, but the third Monday in January has been coined 'Blue Monday' - the most depressing day of the year. Dreamed up in the UK by a psychologist commissioned by a holiday company 14 years ago, there's method in the madness: Lousy weather, post-Christmas blues, last pay-day feels ages ago, next pay-day barely on the horizon...
Bad day on the beer? This'll help
Olly Wehring | 3 Nov 17If you work for a brewer and are having a rough week, take a minute to regain some perspective with this, from the good people at US craft beer producer Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
Beverage Hot Issues
Diageo Performance Trends 2014-2018 - results data
just-drinks picks through Diageo's performance over the past five years for the trends set to affect the group, specifically, and the global spirits category, more broadly.
IGD Digital Commerce 2018 - The Future of Retail
In October, research company IGD held the 2018 edition of its Digital Commerce conference. Here is a round-up of just-drinks content on the show, which featured presentations from Amazon, JD.com, Diageo and Heineken
Cape Wine 2018 - A look at the South African wine industry
In September, Cape Town played host to the Cape Wine exhibition. just-drinks was there to take the temperature of the South African wine market and see what lies ahead.
TFWA Global Travel Retail World Exhibition & Conference 2018
This week, the Global Travel Retail world converged on Cannes in France for the annual TFWA exhibition & conference. Here's a full round-up of just-drinks' coverage from the show.
Drinks Market Research
Global RTD & cider insights - market forecasts, product innovation and cons
Global RTD & cider insights - market forecasts, product innovation and consumer trends
This is the fifth title in our latest series of global category reports, published in partnership with The IWSR. Containing latest released 2017 actual market data and new forecasts to 2022, this offers the very latest global category insights for the RTDs and cider sectors.. Read more
Published: December 2018 - ($2793.00)
International whiskies insights - market forecasts, product innovation and consumer trends
Pernod Ricard Groupe in Spirits (World)
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