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The story of NFC - How near-field communication technology is changing alcohol marketing - Focus
Near-field communication technology allows alcohol brands to engage one-on-one with their consumers. just-drinks charts its rise from a start-up collaboration with Diageo to a potential game-changer for the industry.
What's the best way to market spirits brands to female consumers? - Comment
Is gender becoming an all-consuming issue in whisky? just-drinks' brown spirits commentator, Neil Ridley, certainly hopes not.
"We manage the company efficiently, because we're the owners" - just-drinks speaks to Anheuser-Bu...
Today, Anheuser-Busch InBev unveiled its latest set of sustainability targets, with 2025 set as the deadline for the brewer to achieve its aims. Prior to the launch, just-drinks spoke to group CEO Carlos Brito about the part sustainability plays i...
How is the future shaping up for Cognac and Brandy? - Research in Focus
Although global brandy sales have been generally flat over the past five years, this disguises the continued momentum for Cognac consumption and a premiumisation trend that permeates the entire category.
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Beverage Industry Insights
Remy Cointreau still packs a punch - Analysis
Remy Cointreau dropped a solid set of full-year results yesterday - sales for the 12 months were up 7%. But management at the self-styled lu...
How cannabis blew the doors off enhanced waters
Few ingredients in the natural and organic industry have generated as much buzz as CBD (cannabidiol). Naturally occurring in cannabis plants...
Responsible drinking issues around the world
Once a month, the drinks industry-funded International Alliance for Responsible Drinking, which covers alcohol policies worldwide, looks at...
Heineken's Q1 2018 trading update - Preview
Later this week, Heineken releases a trading update, covering the first quarter of its 2018. Here's a look at the events that shaped the thr...
Campari Group Performance Trends 2013-2017 - data
In late-February, Campari Group released its results for 2017. The group saw sales in the 12-month period come in 6.3% up on 2016. Here, dri...
How the sugar tax has transformed soft drinks
Last week, the UK introduced its version of the sugar tax. But, as soft drinks commentator Richard Corbett explains, the fall-out from the m...
FREE TO READ - just-drinks' Mergers & Acquisitions database - March 2018 11 Apr 18
Here, just-drinks consolidates the M&A activity in the global drinks industry during March.
Maintaining consumer trust in the social media age - Comment 10 Apr 18
Consumers are suffering a "crisis of trust" when it comes to corporate entities, according to recent research. Spirits commentator Richard Woodard looks at how Diageo is faring with consumers, at a time when social media makes it all too easy to offend them.
Thought Leaders
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Consumers increasingly prefer smaller wine portions, particularly millennials and people in emerging markets.....Enter the ‘mini-revolut...
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In recent years, product variety in the food & drink industry has exploded and competition has become intense.This white paper highlights the challenges the food and drink in...
Drinks Industry News
Accolade targets retail growth with 50cl bottle
Andy Morton | 13 Apr 18
Accolade Wines has unveiled 50cl sharing bottles for three of its key brands as part of a new strategy to carve out more profits in the challenging UK wine market.
UK must make case for wine volumes - Accolade
Andy Morton | 13 Apr 18
The head of Accolade's UK arm has warned that the country's wine industry needs to up its game to remain an attractive destination for wine volumes compared to fast-growing Asian markets.
Young drinkers driving alternative wine pack sizes
Lucy Britner | 13 Apr 18
Australian consumers under 35 years old are more inclined to purchase wine in alternative formats to the traditional bottle size, according to Wine Intelligence.
Recent News - (Updated: 5:09pm 19 Apr 2018)
Heineken plots Asian launch for Tecate beer
Healthy third-quarter boosts YTD for Pernod
Heineken unveils 44cl cans for Champions League
Halewood's Aber Falls Welsh Dry Gin - NPD
William Grant backs Reyka Vodka in US
Loch Lomond Group lines up 'largest' GTR push
Beverage Industry Interviews
At the start of this year, the trade organisation for the Australian wine industry set out major investment plans for China, as sales to the country surged by 63% by value in 2017. Then, in March, Wine Australia appointed David Lucas to the newly-created role of regional general manager for Greater China, further signalling its dedication to the market. At this year's ProWein, just-drinks sat down with Wine Australia's GM of marketing, Stuart Barclay, to find out more about why Wine Australia is so excited about China.
Earlier today, Australian private equity group CHAMP announced the divestment of Accolade Wines to The Carlyle Group for AUD1bn (US$768m). The news marks the end of CHAMP's association in wine, which started in 2011 when it bought 80% of Constellation Brands' Australian and UK wine operations for AUD290m (then-US$290m). Having spoken to CHAMP CEO John Haddock at the time of the purchase, it seemed only right for just-drinks to grab him for one final chat, to find out what CHAMP is passing over, why they're selling and what wine lessons the group learnt over the last seven years.
Earlier this week, Anheuser-Busch InBev unveiled its latest set of sustainability targets, with 2025 set as the deadline for the brewer to achieve its aims. In the second part of our subsequent interview with group CEO Carlos Brito, we look at what shareholders are telling him about the role of sustainability. We also discuss some of the latest pledges and consider how A-B InBev hopes to engage with consumers on sustainability.
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 2013-2017 - results data
In late-July, Diageo released its full-year results for fiscal-2017. Here, just-drinks considers Diageo's performance over the past five years.
ProWein 2018 - just-drinks round-up
March saw the annual ProWein exhibition return to Germany. just-drinks was in attendance and here's a full round-up of our coverage.
Minimum Unit Pricing - The Full Story
In mid-November, three drinks industry trade associations lost their appeal against proposals to introduce Minimum Unit Pricing on alcohol in Scotland. Here's just-drinks' full coverage of the move, which clears the way for MUP's introduction in the country.
This week, the Travel Retail world converged on Cannes in France for the TFWA exhibition. just-drinks was in tow, so here's a round-up of our coverage.
Drinks Market Research
Global rum insights - market forecasts, product innovation and consumer tre
Global rum insights - market forecasts, product innovation and consumer trends
The global rum category added some 32.3m nine-litre cases between 2006 and 2011 to hit a high-water mark of 150m cases (including low-priced and value segments). Then the category went into reverse, losing around 10.1m cases between 2012 and 2016. But the prospects are brighter for the higher value segments of the rum category, with the IWSR predicting a positive CAGR of 1.3% to 2021, reaching 57.8m cases in the process... Read more
Published: March 2018 - ($1500.00)
Global Gluten-free Beer Market 2018-2022
Growth Opportunities in Soft Drinks: Southeast Asia
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