A trade opportunity hiding in plain sight, where wine oversupply and changing tastes create leverage for importers, distributors, and producers.

As the wine industry battles declining demand, Yvette van der Merwe—President of the OIV—discusses sustainability, innovation, and emerging opportunities in the market

Maximizing wine and spirits sales in retail through strategic seasonal promotions and product selections.

High-quality alcohol-free drinks are the ones that cannot be ignored as sales of the brand are rocketing year after year.

How the London Competition winners can act as a roll call of drinks that indie merchants can be confident will sell.

The very idea of a celebrity drinks brand will probably have those, particularly in the more conservative parts of the wine trade spluttering into their claret. However, it's a trend that’s growing and very much here to stay.

Living with Covid for nearly two years, with repeated lockdowns and self-isolation has given the at home drinking market a huge boost. 

Across the Atlantic, hard seltzers – canned drinks, made from sparkling water, neutral grain alcohol and fruit flavourings - have taken the market by storm in recent years, and while the category is still growing that initial rate of growth has slowed.

Rabbie Burns would be spinning in his grave at the news, but English whisky is fast becoming an established industry, gaining a small, but rapidly growing fan base.