Drinks Tracker News Today

Managed venues closed February with further year-on-year drops in drinks sales as “shifting dynamics” make growth more “challenging”, particularly for the spirits category.

Drinks sales in the seven days to Saturday 17 February remained flat year-on-year despite a “welcome boost” from Valentines Day.

An approved blanket extension of licensing hours for the UEFA Euro 2024 games would “remove unnecessary hoops” for pubs and deliver a “significant sales boost”.

On-trade drinks sales at pubs and bars in the final fortnight of 2023 were 7% above those of 2022, with beer and cider leading the way.

Spirits sales lagged behind all other drinks categories in Britain’s on-trade during the final two weeks of December.

Drinks sales were up 7% year-on-year during the final fortnight of 2023, indicating “positive trends” for 2024 despite continued “difficult trading conditions”, according to CGA.

Drinks sales for the last week of November/first weekend of December were down again compared to last year, new figures have found.

Sales of spirits fell by 8% in Britain’s on-trade in the week to 2 December 2023, the biggest decline across all drinks categories.

Thatchers Cider has extended its range of fruit ciders with the release of a new Apple and Blackcurrant variant.

Beer sales in pubs have seen a marginal increase in volume compared with a higher turnover in value over the last 12 months, demonstrating “huge restraint” from pubs in the face of "outrageous" rising costs.