Craft beer sales booming
The latest research from Chicago-based Mintel, a global supplier of product research, shows that sales of craft beer nearly doubled between 2007 and 2012 — growing from $5.7 billion in 2007 to $12 billion in 2012. And per Mintel’s research, the boom isn’t likely to...
Esposito Tapped As President Of Stoli’s U.S. Operations
Source: Shanken News Daily Former Bacardi USA president John Esposito has been tapped to run Stolichnaya vodka’s U.S. operations, effective Monday. Esposito will be setting up Stolichnaya’s North American headquarters in New York City. He will assemble an organization...
December/End of Year 2012 Control State Results
Source: NABCA Nine-liter case control state spirits sales during 2012 increased 3.6% over sales during the same period last year, led by Irish Whiskey, Cordials, Vodka, Domestic Whiskey, and Brandy/Cognac reporting annual growth rates of 19.6%, 6.1%, 5.1%, 3.9%, and...
Alcohol and a Good Night’s Sleep Don’t Mix
Jan. 22, 2013 -- Think a nightcap may help you get a better night’s sleep? Think again. A new review of 27 studies shows that alcohol does not improve sleep quality. According to the findings, alcohol does allow healthy people to fall asleep quicker and sleep more...
Bartenders Are Doing More Than Taking Orders
Around the neck of every bottle from the fledgling spirits outfit the 86 Co. — the gin, the vodka, the tequila, the rum — is a small glass ridge. To the untrained eye, it looks like a packaging flourish. It is not. The ridge is there to make it easier for a bartender...
FTC study taking aim at online marketing of booze and kids
(Reuters) - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans this summer to recommend ways that the alcoholic beverage industry can better protect underage viewers from seeing its advertisements online. Distillers, brewers and wineries pour millions of dollars into brand...
Consumer Wine Trends: Americans Drinking More, “Better” Wines
The fundamental consumer base has and will continue to change, and wine marketers and makers can not ignore the new way people drink wine, according the research presented at the Wine Market Council Update on Jan. 18, 2013. Consumers are finding more reasons to...
Per capita Canadian wine consumption now 15 litres a year
Wine producers will be proposing a toast to Canadian consumers: a new study shows wine consumption in this country is growing three times faster than globally and Canada is projected to be the fifth fastest-growing wine market in the next five years. Most of the wine...
Beam to sell several cheaper brands for $65M
Beam Inc., which makes Jim Beam and Maker's Mark bourbon, said Monday it has agreed to sell several of its lesser-known brands to Luxco Inc. for a combined $65 million. The brands include Calvert, Bellows, Wolfschmidt vodka, Dark Eyes vodka, Canada House Canadian, and...