The Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine, Michael Creed T.D. and Bord Bia CEO, Tara McCarthy this week marked the success of Irish beverage exports to the US, which grew to over €500 million last year, at a trade showcase in Chicago.
A few years ago, alcohol-beverage giant Diageo realized it had a problem. When Fireball-loving millennials wanted to take a shot, they weren't downing the company's Captain Morgan rum.
WASHINGTON — The beer industry, from the smallest craft brewers to the giant Anheuser-Bush InBev, is behind a long-awaited rewrite of the federal tax code on beer.
The UK's Wine and Spirits Trade Association (WSTA) has urged the new government to strike a full negotiated divorce settlement with the European Union (EU).
Wine Spectator kicked off Vinexpo, the international wine-trade fair held biennially in Bordeaux, on Sunday by gathering experts and industry pioneers to tackle one of the most critical issues facing the global wine community: climate change. Senior
The association representing UK wine and spirit companies has called on the country's government to negotiate a comprehensive trade agreement with the European Union (EU), as the UK prepares to leave the political bloc.
A Transformation in Three-Tier Wine Sales
winebusiness.com
June 17, 2017
Daily transactional data for three-tier wine sales will soon be widely available to wineries, a breakthrough that stands to transform the way wineries track and manage an estimated $1.8 billion in annual depletion allowances.*
The sweeping change is underway at Vermont Information Processing (VIP), an industry software and information provider that has long supplied daily depletion data to the beer industry.
VIP purchased Beverage Data Network (BDN), a supplier of wholesaler depletion data to the wines and spirits industry, in July 2015. Then in January 2017, VIP quietly purchased TradePulse, a depletions data provider focused largely on California wineries.Alcoholic beverage producers and retailers in the UK are failing to provide consumers with information on the calorie content of alcoholic drinks.
Flavoured alcoholic beverages saw a decline in 2015, which was followed by a further contraction in volumes in 2016.
- Distilled Spirits Post Another Year of Steady Volume Increases According to the Liquor Handbook 2017
NORWALK, Conn., June 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — The distilled spirits industry continued its impressive 19 straight years of growth, rising 2.7% in 2016 to 221.0 million 9-liter cases. C