Drinkindustries.ie Newsletter

Earlier pub re-opening dates welcomed

On-trade | Guidance from NPHET expected soon

Tourism Task Force recommends earlier opening

On-trade | Pubs might get go-ahead for 20th July re-opening

Pubs could lose potential €976 million

Marketing | Pub incomes could fall by as much as €976 million this year

April bar sales down 90%

On-trade | Bar sales values down by 90.4% on April 2019

2019 cider exports up 32%

Marketing | Cider sector contributed over half-a-billion €uro in excise since 2010

Alcohol not expected to rebound until 2024

Marketing | New IWSR research forecasts Covid-19 to push 2019 volume gains back 5 years

24 million fewer pints consumed in April

Off-trade | New Nielsen figures confirm beer, cider and spirits sales fell by over a third

YellowBelly partners with ABCD for national distribution

Wexford-based craft brewery YellowBelly Beer has partnered with craft beer specialists Alpha Beer & Cider Distribution to begin national distribution of YellowBelly’s canned range.

Clocks forward into the Twilight Zone for publicans

With the country’s pubs still in lockdown until the end of June (at least), if not August, what are the country’s publicans to make of it all?

Tomás Clancy – wine savvy scribe

Invariably, a chance meeting with wine writer Tomás Clancy would have left you more informed than you’d been before getting into conversation with him.