Beverages
The latest news and updates on beverages, from the business journalists at Catering Today. We bring you the latest on what’s happening in the restaurants, bars and catering industry, with exclusive stories, analysis, best practice and industry comment.
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May- 2025 -23 May
Beer and cider flourish in sunny Spring for drinks sales
Drinks sales in the UK rose 12% like-for-like in the week ended Saturday 3 May, the best performance of the year so far. This followed 2% growth in the seven days to Saturday 26 April, and high single-digit growth in the first half of April. Following a robust March, the…
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Apr- 2025 -29 April
Carlsberg sees ‘soft start’ to 2025 amid Britvic merger
Carlsberg has had a “soft start” to the year according to group chief executive Jacob Aarup-Andersen following the completion of its merger with Britvic. The Danish company posted a revenue increase of 17.4% for the three months ended 31 March 2025 but saw a 1.5% organic revenue development loss globally.…
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Jul- 2024 -30 July
Diageo FY sales fall 1.4% amid weaker demand in Latin America
Diageo has revealed that its reported net sales fell 1.4% to $20.3bn(£15.8bn) for the year ended 30 June 2024. The company has put this down to an unfavourable foreign exchange impact and organic net sales decline, partially offset by hyperinflation adjustments. Its organic net sales declined by $129m (£100.4m) or…
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25 July
Ireland drinks sales rise by 4.6% as customer habits shift
Drinks sales in Ireland pubs rose by 4.6% in the last 12 months fuelled by major shifts in people’s habits, CGA by NIQ has revealed. According to CGA’s On Premise User Survey, more than three quarters (78%) of people now typically visit drink-led pubs at least monthly, and nearly a…
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May- 2024 -9 May
Brewdog CEO steps down
Brewdog co-founder and CEO James Watt has announced that he is set to step down after 17 years in charge. He informed the board of his decision last year and will be replaced by the company’s chief operating officer James Arrow. He will still own 21% of the company and…
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Mar- 2024 -18 March
Drinks sales spring back to year-on-year growth
Drinks sales in the UK jumped 5% in the week ended 9 March following tough trading conditions in January and largely flat sales in February. Sales were up year-on-year on six of the seven days of the week, helped by big sporting events like the Manchester Derby in the Premier…
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Nov- 2023 -23 November
A quarter of consumers to spend more on hot drinks, says CGA
Over a quarter of consumers (28%) have stated that they are likely to spend more on hot drinks in the next 12 months according to data from CGA. More than half (54%) say they are likely to pay extra for a better quality drink, a figure that rises even higher…
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Oct- 2023 -3 October
UK F&B M&A activity up 68.2% despite absence of higher market deals
UK Food and Beverage M&A activity has seen a 68.2% increase in the volume of deals (37 transactions) compared with the same period in the prior year, according to Oghma Partners’ Food and Beverage M&A report. Deal value has also increased by 49.1% to c. £400.0m compared with the same…
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Aug- 2023 -16 August
Wettest July on record dampens drinks sales
Drinks sales in the UK were down 6% for the week ended 5 August compared with the same week in 2022, the worst weekly measurement in the year to date. This drop was exacerbated by three days of double-digit declines, with only two days managing to achieve marginal growth. The…
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7 August
Drinks sales remain flat after wet July
Drinks sales for the seven days ended 29 July were flat compared with the previous week as a result of yet more bad weather. This follows year-on-year drops of 3% and 0.3% over the previous two weeks which came after 11 consecutive weeks of year-on-year growth. Daily sales comparisons ranged…
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