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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.