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Byline: Fiona Holland Agave-based spirits will reap the benefits of growing global consumer interest in bartender recommendations and food-led social occasions in the on-trade in 2025, according to Bacardi. Speaking [...]

Byline: kgi-admin Rum inflation in Australia stood at 0.300% in April 2023, according to GlobalData's report on the prices of stock keeping units (SKUs) supplied through online retailers. In Q2 [...]

Byline: James Beeson Growth at the higher-value end of the Tequila category is providing a counterweight to rising raw material costs for Brown-Forman, according to the group’s CFO. Speaking after [...]

Byline: Ben Cooper Already one of the healthiest spirits categories, the Tequila sector is benefiting from two significant external factors in its prime market, according to a new IWSR/just-drinks report, [...]

Byline: Ben Cooper The global category figures may not look that encouraging but a new joint-report from just-drinks and The IWSR points to better fortunes for the gin market. It is [...]

Byline: Ben Cooper The gin category can look forward to a positive future, in spite of the overall market being flat at 45.3m cases in 2013, according to new research from just-drinks [...]

Byline: Andy Morton Grupo Zamora is to replace Diageo as the distributor of Jose Cuervo Tequila in Spain, according to reports. The Madrid-based spirits and wine brand owner will take [...]

Byline: James Wilmore Jose Cuervo's owner has agreed to hand over distribution of its full Tequila range in Australia to Think Spirits, as a replacement for Diageo, according to local [...]

Byline: James Wilmore Police in Siberia have seized around 30,000 bottles of counterfeit vodka worth an estimated RUB3m (US$90,000), according to local reports. The half-litre bottles were labelled Pchenichnaya and [...]

Byline: Andy Morton New dessert flavours have boosted vodka's continung popularity in the US spirits market, while whiskey's resurgence continues unabated, according to an analyst's study of the country's fastest-growing [...]

Byline: James Wilmore Unique and high-end 'boutique' spirits helped the US spirits markets grow by 3.5% by volume in 2011, according to a new report. Total spirits volumes reached 199.8m [...]

Byline: Ben Cooper As hard as it may be to conceive of another white spirit winning the hearts of Russian drinkers, it appears that Tequila is doing just that. If [...]

Byline: Ben Cooper As vodka sales have soared over the last ten years, gin has been somewhat in the doldrums. However, a new The IWSR/just-drinks report shows that the premium [...]

Byline: Olly Wehring No sooner had I penned some ponderings on yet another 'Diageo in move to buy...' story yesterday, as (yet) another one came along. After last week's news [...]

Byline: just-drinks.com editorial team UK reports over the weekend have suggested that Diageo is mulling a US$2bn move to acquire full control of the Jose Cuervo Tequila brand. A piece [...]

Byline: Chris Mercer Brown-Forman has said it sees more strong growth for Jack Daniel's outside of the US, after a strong showing from the whiskey brand in the group's year [...]

As Pernod Ricard names a new brand director for its gin brands, a recently published report from just-drinks/IWSR suggests it is will not be an easy category from which to [...]

Diageo has moved to correct a recent report claiming that it will gain almost US$3bn from a US tax break. A news story from Bloomberg late last month suggested that [...]

Consumers last year continued to flock to more expensive premium and flavoured products, according to the recently published Adams Liquor Handbook 2007. The recent offering from the Adams Beverage Group, [...]

The malt whisky sector has grown from being a niche to being a category in its own right. In addition to providing an overview of the malt market, along with [...]