Rabobank today served up Australian wine as an object lesson for the Scotch whisky industry’s need to innovate in areas such as flavour rather than discount, to guard its prestige in times of oversupply.
CASE SALES VERSUS SCOTCH UNDERLINE POTENTIAL: JOHN QUINN, GLOBAL BRAND AMBASSADOR
The world’s second-largest Irish whiskey brand Tullamore D.E.W insists the ‘sexy’ Irish whiskey category has immense potential as a rival to 'monolithic' Scotch sales.
A delegation from Scotland to India, on a trade mission to promote the country’s food and drink, has proved a hit with its whisky-loving hosts—not least with the announcement shortly afterwards that an Indian company would invest in a new malt distillery...
The only whisky producer in Wales - whose first single malt was launched by Prince Charles in 2004 - is installing three new stills to more than triple its capacity and boost sales overseas.
With its Indian chapter launching as recently as April this year, the Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) is a case in point of how the country’s taste for the drink has been moving quickly in a premium direction.
After a rash of ‘new launches, gimmicky stunts and outrageous incarnations’, culminating in bubble gum-based vodka, Euromonitor International is warning of potential category ‘boom and bust’.
A Scottish-based academic has warned BeverageDaily.com that plans by the country’s legislators to introduce minimum alcohol pricing would be a ‘massive shot in the foot’ for the nation’s top global export Scotch whisky.
Scotch Whisky manufacturers are in a drive to expand production capacity as the category expects to see healthy growth, particularly in emerging markets, says Euromonitor.
Scotch whisky is winning the battle against US bourbon for dominance of the expanding Czech Republic spirits market, according to the latest report from Global Agricultural information Network (GAIN).
A Canadian drinks group has failed in its bid to keep using the
word 'glen' on one of its whisky brands after a court in the
country ruled against the manufacturer in a trademark dispute with
Scottish producers.
Rémy Cointreau says it is confident of achieving
"significant" improvements in organic profitability during
2008 on the strength of brands sales in emerging markets over the
last half year.
A blended whisky owned by drinks group Diageo has been crowned the
best Scotch in the world, but consumers in Britain were unlikely to
get a sniff, according to judge Jim Murray.
Strawberry milk-flavoured fish sausage, horseradish-flavoured vodka
and asparagus-flavoured potato chips are among a list of the top
ten new consumer products of 2005.
Italian drinks group Campari has been rubbing its hands together
after Pernod Ricard agreed to sell it the world's number two single
malt whisky brand Glen Grant.
The European Commission has approved Pernod Ricard's bid for Allied
Domecq, but will force the firm to dump extra whiskey brands and
distribution agreements before a deal goes through, reports
Chris Mercer.
China entered the top 20 markets for Scotch whisky for the first
time in 2004, accounting for an increasingly large chunk of sales
in the Asian region. And with per capita consumption still
relatively low, China could prove to be...
British spirits drinkers are abandoning blended whisky in favour of
foreign products such as vodka. A new report from market analysts
Datamonitor reveals that although whisky remains the most
popular spirit in Britain, sales are in...
The Scotch Whisky Association says that China has helped contribute
to a 2 per cent increase in exports for the first six months of
this year. The news comes despite the fact that a downturn in the
South Korean economy has led to...
Efforts by Scotch whisky makers to attract a younger client base
are coming thick and fast, as distillers seek to break the
stranglehold of white spirits on the UK youth market. But is the
'pipe and slippers' image of whisky...
India looks set to consolidate its somewhat unexpected position as
the world's largest whisky market in 2003, stretching further ahead
of its nearest rivals, according to a new report from market
analysts Canadean. ...
UK Chancellor Gordon Brown's attempts to clamp down on tax evasion
have 'dismayed' one of the country's biggest manufacturing sectors
- the Scotch whisky industry.
Drinks giant Diageo has agreed to significant changes in the
packaging of its Cardhu Scotch whisky. The move is designed to heal
deep rifts that have emerged within the hugely conservative Scotch
whisky industry over the company's...
Spirits sales in France have dropped for the last few years as soft
drinks and water become more popular. But new product development
is strong, and sales should start to rise again this year.
Vodka is going from strength to strength in the UK spirits market,
taking over from Scotch as the main driver of growth. But will this
growth - driven in part by the success of vodka-based RTDs - be
shortlived like that of tequila...
In a difficult economic climate, Scotch whisky exports topped the
£2 billion mark for the 10th year in a row last year, helped by
increasing interest in malts. There were strong gains in Asian
markets such as Korea and Taiwan, which...
Just 83 bottles of The Balvenie Cask 191 single malt have been
produced, making this the smallest ever release under the brand. A
bottle of the whisky, which was laid down in 1952, will set you
back more than €9,000.
The 1968 limited edition of Bunnahabhain Auld Acquaintance Scotch
whisky is expected to sell out within months of its release - just
like its two predecessors.
