Alcoholic Drinks

In 2023, the fall in total volume sales of wine in Australia was largely due to a significant decline in the off-trade channel. This has been the trend for wine since 2021-2022 and the end of lockdowns - the period when wine sales had peaked -…

Overall, New Zealand’s alcoholic drinks industry faced significant challenges during 2023 with the rising cost of production and inflation having a huge impact on consumer spending habits. Many consumers have cut all non-essential spending due to the…

Towards the end of 2022, Todd Energy announced plans to shut down the only factory in the country that produces food-grade CO2. The decision was taken for safety reasons and no re-opening date was set. Following the 2022 closure of the Marsden Point…

The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant disruption to New Zealand’s hospitality sector for much of 2020 and into 2021 as the extremely strict approach taken to social distancing meant that cafés, restaurants and bars were required to remain closed.…

RTDs remains the strongest performing category within New Zealand’s alcoholic drinks industry and the category was reinvigorated over the review period thanks to the rapid success of emerging local brand Pal’s, the success of which has largely…