Insight & Opinion - The three-tier system of alcohol distribution in the United States is changing under our feet. With tasting rooms, bars, restaurants, and event venues either closed or severely limited during the COVID-19 crisis, the industry is seeing a massive “channel shift” to off-premise and ecommerce sales.
In the absence of pubs and festivals, booze brands have had to seek out new ways of reaching consumers. Not too long ago, the world was on countdown to St Patrick’s Day, a global tribute to Ireland’s patron saint and a certified piss-up for sesh-heads across the globe.
AUSTRALIA - Online liquor business HelloDrinks has this week launched a Liquor Marketplace that aims to provide suppliers with a new revenue stream during a challenging time for the drinks industry.
BOSTON, MA (May 14, 2020) – Drizly Group, parent company of Drizly and Lantern, the nation’s leading alcohol e-commerce marketplace and first on-demand cannabis e-commerce company in Massachusetts, respectively, today announced three additions to its leadership team.
While many Americans continue to live under some measure of quarantine, people have been drinking more at home. With restaurants and bars unlikely to reopen soon (if at all), and a near-guarantee of a second wave of COVID-19 infections, it seems the living room bar is here to stay.
Differences in prices of pints and cans of beer, behaviour of social drinkers and prevalence of subscription services claimed to be behind reduction of projections for growth of the UK alcoholic beverages market
Craft distilleries in the US are “barely hanging on” and face “severe financial hardship” unless immediate help is made available, the Distilled Spirits Council of the US (Discus) has warned.
As demand for hand sanitizer spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, American agribusiness Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is supplying industrial ethyl alcohol to support production of hand sanitizer by North American distilled spirits producer Sazerac Company.
Remember when gift cards were going to save America’s bar and restaurant industry? The solution was first touted by major news outlets during the third week of March, after state governments mandated that bars and restaurants close their on-premise operations.
U.S. industry groups, confronted with the economic damage wrought by the pandemic, have started asking lawmakers for more targeted tax relief.