COMPANIES from Amazon.com Inc to Walmart Inc are finding that fresh-grocery delivery is challenging. But there's one niche of the market that seems ripe with opportunity in 2020: booze.
Customers planning to kick off 2020 by abstaining from alcohol can still enjoy a cold one on New Year’s and beyond. Heineken has introduced an on-premise January promotion that champions Heineken 0.0 as the beer of choice for beer drinkers who want a beer but may have resolved to abstain from alcohol.
From the “better-for-you movement” in vodka to the emergence of agave-based spirits beyond Tequila and mezcal, analyst Nielsen has revealed the alcohol trends that are set to be big in the US next year.
Innovation, and an increasingly creative response to pressing social, health and environmental issues are driving major consumer trends in South Africa's alcohol beverage sector.
As the climate crisis accelerates, fueling powerful storms, unprecedented droughts and wildfires, more consumers are focused on making purchases that are environmentally sensitive. Companies hoping to capture their dollars are increasingly trying to do something—anything—to show they are part of the solution and not the problem.
The most recent example: Walmart announced this week that alcohol is being picked up from a car in around 2,000 of its stores in 29 states, including California, Florida and Texas. (See the full list below.)
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits (Southern Glazer's)—the world’s preeminent distributor of beverage alcohol—today announced several promotions on its commercial team, all effective January 1, 2020.
Walk into most trendy cocktail bars these days and drinkers are almost guaranteed to find entire menu sections dedicated to nonalcoholic or “no-ABV” creations.
The last two years have been good ones for Lyon Distilling. At the small rum producer in St. Michaels, Md., a town on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay, production has jumped from 4,000 bottles a year to 40,000. Four employees have become 15.
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