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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.
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.”
Constellation Brands and Molson Coors are expected to annex more shelf and cooler space in convenience stores following the upcoming spring 2024 resets, according to Goldman Sachs Equity Research’s recent Beverage Bytes survey.
As another Dry January approaches, the non-alcoholic (NA) category has posted “its largest year of absolute dollar growth in five years,” Adult Non-Alcoholic Beverage Association (ANBA) CEO Marcos Salazar shared during the trade association’s webinar earlier this month.
Year-to-date (YTD) craft beer sales in off-premise retailers have inched closer to flat with one month to go, according to market research firm Circana. Through December 3, craft beer sales in multi-outlet and convenience stores are down -0.9%, an improvement compared to the last four- (-1.6%), 12- (-3.9%) and 52-week (-1%) periods. Craft dollar sales… Read more »
Craft beer has entered “no to negative growth territory,” Brewers Association (BA) chief economist Bart Watson said during a year-end webinar last week. “We were in double-digit growth as recently as 2014, 2015, and then we moved into kind of a more developed, slow, single-digit growth rate,” Watson said. “COVID hit, and we had the worst year in craft history in 2020 with a partial bounce back in 2021.
As 2023 comes to a close, the teams at market research firms NIQ and CGA hosted a webinar Tuesday to give predictions for 2024 bev-alc trends, including shifting consumer behavior, changing demographics, and continued premiumization and flavor-forward trends.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for beer at home in November increased +2.7% year-over-year (YoY), according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
This year will be the first, other than 2020, in which independent breweries’ volume has declined in the modern era of craft beer, according to the Brewers Association’s (BA) 2023 Year in Beer report.
October domestic tax paid shipments from U.S. brewers were down -10.8% versus October 2022, to an estimated 11.35 million barrels, marking a loss of 1.38 million barrels year-over-year (YoY), according to Beer Institute (BI) chief economist Andrew Heritage.
Total bev-alc recorded a +12% boost in off-premise dollar sales week-over-week (WoW) thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday, according to Circana’s Scott Scanlon in the market research firm’s weekly update (data ending November 26).
