Alcoholic Drinks

Although limited in scale, the forecast revisions this quarter present a picture of increased negativity almost across the board. Nigeria was one of the few markets to receive an upgrade at the industry level, with premium categories single malt ...

Leading global brewer AB InBev has a broad geographic spread, ranking among the top four brewers in every region. The company is placing a growing focus on generating value as finding volume growth becomes increasingly difficult in its key markets, ...

Ranked third in beer globally, Carlsberg operates in three core regions - Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific and Western Europe. Expansion in the emerging markets of Asia Pacific is a strategic focus for the company. Carlsberg is also working to shift its ...

In the mature Western European beer market, there is a distinct upmarket shift, as consumers are increasingly seeking better-quality options and higher-priced products. In that regard, particularly premium, craft and mixed beers are setting trends ...

Bolivian GDP increased in the last decade, which drove the expansion of the middle-income group and led to an increase in average disposable incomes. As a result, the country saw the explosion of retailing and a sustained increase in the supply of ...

Suntory Holdings is one of the world’s largest spirits companies, with particular strength in US and Japanese whiskies. This core focus will not change in the years ahead, although the company is looking to diversify geographically, as well as into ...

“Craft” is now an established feature in the global beer landscape. Growth continues to decelerate in the core US market, while the movement is still in its early stages in key emerging markets, such as China and Vietnam. Microbrewers are looking to ...

Despite a challenging 2018 for the alcoholic drinks industry, with high taxes and economic slowdown, total volume sales were able to see double-digit percentage growth. This was driven by beer, which benefited from consumers switching to more ...

After the sales decline in 2014, there have been four uninterrupted years of steady sales growth in Croatian alcoholic drinks. The direct reason for this can be found in the resurgence of disposable household income from 2015, enabling Croatian ...

After a decline in the previous year, alcoholic drinks experienced steady growth in total volume terms in 2018. Beer and cider consumption was stimulated by the warm spring and hot and long summer. Cider was the most dynamic category, followed by ...

The health trend that encourages consumers to reduce their consumption of alcoholic drinks was still having an effect on the market in 2018, as was the premiumisation trend, which saw Italian consumers demanding and willing to pay for high quality. ...

Overall alcoholic drinks saw a third year of decline in total volume terms in 2018. The only category to see a positive performance was RTDs. Its sales were boosted by stronger sales of attractively packaged RTDs which focus on young adults of legal ...

Alcoholic drinks remained dynamic in Nigeria over the review period, and has strong growth prospects despite the weak economic conditions affecting sales since the 2016 recession. The key drivers of growth have been the fast rate of urbanisation and ...

In 2017, alcoholic drinks started to show important recovery from the strong decline seen in 2016 in total volume terms, and the slow increases seen in previous years. The growth trend continued during 2018. Wine and whiskies recorded strong growth, ...

Before 2017, volume growth in alcoholic drinks was fuelled by the adoption of Western trends by Egyptian consumers, leading to lifestyle changes. However, in 2017 and 2018, rampant price increases limited total volume growth in alcoholic drinks, ...

The population of young men and women is seeing fast growth in Saudi Arabia and with the increased use of social media and influence of Western lifestyles, youngsters of legal drinking age are the key drivers in the sales of non/low alcohol beer in ...

The alcoholic drinks market continued to grow in 2018. Several trends were behind this growth, mainly premiumisation and rising consumer interest in new high-quality products. Additionally, the prices of premium and super-premium brands are still ...

Despite the weak ringgit currency in 2018, alcoholic drinks in Malaysia continued to see solid performance driven by a recovering consumer sentiment and players’ aggressive marketing activities. Category growth was underpinned by robust growth in the...

For a second year in a row, volume growth in the alcoholic drinks market slowed down. The specific excise tax standardisation of 2017 is still affecting high-strength alcoholic drinks, such as spirits, while wine and beer were less affected due to ...

In 2018, alcoholic drinks further gained acceptance amongst Indonesia consumers. Increasing consumer awareness, new product developments and a lifestyle trend of socialising over drinks has led to an increase in demand, especially in the on-trade ...