Market research on the alcoholic drinks industry. Standardised an...
Market research on the alcoholic drinks industry. Standardised and cross-comparable statistics including total market sizes, market share and share data, distribution and industry trends.
Beer sales continued to record a healthy growth rate in 2019, with particularly dynamic performances seen in Nigeria and Cameroon. However, this has come to an abrupt halt in 2020, with the arrival of Coronavirus (COVID-19) resulting in a slump in…
In 2020, the global alcoholic drinks market faced a genuinely unprecedented collapse that proved to be far worse than the depths of the 2008 Great Recession while overshadowing every other major regional, macro or black swan event-driven crisis in…
On-trade sales of beer collapsed in 2020 as Coronavirus (COVID-19) led to the closure of bars, pubs and restaurants. While off-trade sales continued increasing, picking up some of the lost on-trade sales, the size of the on-trade decline as well as…
This regional briefing discusses value and volume market sizes, growth since 2016, channel distribution and company shares in the region. It analyses the huge impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with the performance of craft producers,…
With alcoholic drinks prohibited under Islamic law, beer sales in the Saudi Arabian market are totally reliant on non alcoholic beer. The COVID-19 crisis led to a marked decline in non alcoholic beer sales in 2020. The Saudi Arabian Government took a…
Heineken has been making good progress in recovering from pandemic-driven disruption; however, along with the rest of the industry, it is now having to contend with sharp rises in costs and the potential impact of the cost of living crisis on demand.…
The metal beverage can is gaining ground rapidly in the beverage industries of both Latin and North America. Cans continue to grow share in their core categories of beer and carbonates while expanding into a diverse mix of new functional and…
Having seen a marked decline in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, beer volume sales continued recovering in Algeria by growing in 2022, with a similar positive growth rate as in 2021. In current value terms, the overall performance of beer…
As one of the best performing categories of alcoholic drinks over much of the review period, beer was expected to avoid significant struggles during 2022. These expectations seemed to be confirmed by results from the first half of the year. However,…
At first sight, sales of beer in France look flat. However, within this situation we see some contrasted results. The bad news: without great surprise, off-trade sales of beer suddenly waned in 2022 due to the recovery of on-trade, following the end…
Total volume sales of beer exceeded the pre-COVID-19 level in 2022, due to the border reopening, as well as the removal of pandemic restrictions. On-trade businesses saw encouraging growth in volume sales due to the loosening of government…
Multi Bintang Indonesia PT Tbk continues to lead the Indonesian beer category, with its strength founded on its wide range of products - which includes but is not limited to lager, flavoured lager, low alcohol and non alcoholic beer - as well as…
Following the trend seen across alcoholic drinks in 2022, the performance of beer was highly polarised. Indeed, following two consecutive years of strong growth through the off-trade channel, off-trade sales declined in 2022. This was mostly due to a…
Beer posted a total volume increase in 2022, thanks to a rebound in on-trade sales. In March 2022, Japan ended the COVID-19 quasi-emergency in all prefectures, and foodservice outlets were able to operate without any restrictions. As a result,…
Beer prices observed significant increases in 2022, which can be explained by the rising costs of supplies, amongst which barley and aluminium were the most affected, and by other inflationary pressures. However, the total volume consumption of beer…
On-trade beer consumption continued to increase strongly in 2022, as following the relaxation of restrictions in 2021, restrictions on dine-in were fully removed in Singapore in 2022. From 29 March 2022, the 22.30hrs cut-off for the sale and…
Off-trade volume sales of beer in South Korea marginally declined in 2022 as demand for imported lager, which had been driving the growth of the country’s beer consumption at home, was sluggish. Although popular brands such as Budweiser continued to…
During 2022, the Spanish beer category maintained total volume growth, and sales nearly returned to the level seen in 2019. This made it one of the only alcoholic drinks categories that, in general, recovered from the impact of the pandemic. The…
Following a further slowdown in the number of new COVID-19 cases in 2021, consumers and businesses, including the beer industry, seemed to be dealing with yet another serious inflation problem in 2022. The increase in production, shipping, and…
Total volume sales of beer in the United Arab Emirates continued to record double-digit growth in 2022, as consumers resumed socialising after restrictions were further eased. The strong volume growth recorded by beer was additionally fuelled by the…