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From Generation Z to the silver tsunami, keeping up with consumers and their rapidly changing drinking habits isn’t easy. We try to break the mystique with a presentation by NIQ beverage alcohol vertical director of thought leadership Kaleigh Theriault and 3 Tier Beverages analytics and client success consultant Stephanie Roatis.
The beer industry’s chief economists discussed beer’s data, challenges and opportunities. Bart Watson and Lester Jones, chief economists of the Brewers Association and the National Beer Wholesalers Association, respectively, shared the stage to provide an update on beer industry trends and the trajectory heading into 2024.
The convenience channel remains a bright spot for beer as the category tackles declines elsewhere, and growth in the channel is expected to continue through 2024, Goldman Sachs analysts reported in the company’s latest Bev Bytes retailer survey.
The price of beer increased across the board last year. The average case price of craft beer in 2023 increased +3.6% year-over-year, to $42.41 across all outlets, according to NIQ data shared by Bump Williams Consulting.
Craft cans gained +3.6% share of craft dollars in 2023, and now account for 69.9% off-premise craft dollar sales, according to NIQ data shared in Bump Williams Consulting’s 2023 craft recap.
Three-quarters of consumers who said they would abstain from alcohol this month have stayed committed to Dry January, according to a survey by CGA, NIQ’s on-premise market research firm.
Seven of the top 25 craft growth brands in 2023 were non-alcoholic (NA) offerings, according to full-year NIQ data shared in Bump Williams Consulting’s 2023 craft review.
U.S. craft spirits topped $7.9 billion in sales in 2022, growing 5.3% in value and 6.1% in volume, but slowed considerably from the year prior, according to a new report.
Constellation Brands overtook Molson Coors as the No. 2 beer category vendor by dollar sales in multi-outlet grocery and convenience stores (MULO+C) in 2023, according to market research firm Circana, which shared its year-end report. Constellation grew off-premise dollars by $1.092 billion to $8.446 billion through December 31.
The final Circana beer report for 2023 has arrived and it’s time to see how the category and its segments fared in scans, starting with a look at craft.
The December Consumer Price Index (CPI) for beer at home increased +1.9% year-over-year (YoY), with the category ending 2023 below overall inflation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
November domestic tax paid shipments from U.S. brewers were down -6.8% year-over-year (YoY), to an estimated 10.95 million barrels, according to the Beer Institute (BI) in its latest round of economic reports.
Off-premise dollar sales of beer topped $47.9 billion in 2023, according to market research firm NIQ. Beer accounts for half of total alcohol off-premise dollar sales, which reached $89.8 billion last year, a +1.1% increase compared to 2022. Although dollar sales increased for beer (+1.4%), volume declined -3% compared to a year ago. Beer was… Read more »
The “misalignment” of growth strategies across the supplier, wholesaler and retailer tiers will continue to be a problem for bev-alc in 2024, according to Bump Williams in the first Bump Williams Consulting (BWC) Monthly Industry Update of the year.
Overall beer ordering contracted again in December after spending one month in expansion territory, according to the National Beer Wholesalers Association’s (NBWA) Beer Purchasers’ Index (BPI).
Chief economists Bart Watson (Brewers Association) and Lester Jones (National Beer Wholesalers Association) spent much of the past couple years staving off fears of a recession and preaching about how beer is “economically resilient.”