ALCOHOL BEVERAGE INDUSTRY IN UK

Alcohol Beverage Industry in UK



Alcohol beverage Industry in UK

Introduction

The global outlook on the Alcoholic Beverages has provided a collection for statistical findings, summaries and market briefs of the research and analysis of the findings. It is a fact that European markets are briefly discussed in this paper. According to preliminary data from the BCP, the drinks have participated with 11.8% of the country's manufacturing GDP in 2008. In that sense, alcoholic beverages accounted for 49% of gross production of this activity and the remaining drinks (McClure, 2006, 277-83).

Discussion and Analysis

Industry Analysis

The Alcoholic Beverage industry has faced number of challenges at times. As during past decades, various trends in both upstream and downstream markets have hurt alcohol wholesales through constraining revenue eating and growth into eating profit margins. The consolidation in the wine, spirit and beer production industries has strengthened the market power for wholesales' customers and suppliers that results in wholesales being bypassed in the off-trade supply chain (Lopes, 2003, 592-8).

The World's Largest Alcohol Marketers

The Alcohol beverages industry includes the wholesalers, distributors and producers, operators of point-of-scale and the hospitality providers like cages or the hotels which serves alcohol (Lopes, 2003, 592-8). Among the 10 largest global wine marketers, at least three have important holdings in beer or spirits.

Ten Largest Global Beer Marketers

Source: http://www.globalcitizen.net/data/topic/knowledge/uploads/2009121011552515.pdf

Alcohol Market Share

The general decline of the economy is an interesting effect on the division between super premium spirits, premium, standard, and economic. Despite the difficult economy, consumers are slowly switching to more premium spirits.

U.K. Beverage Alcohol Market Share - Percentage of Drinks

Beer

Beer is treated as the king when it comes to the market share of alcohol. However, beer it is also a fact that beer should not get too comfortable in their throne, the UK beer ...