SuperValu stays top of beer & wine shares
The share figures, exclusively revealed to Drinks Industry Ireland by Kantar, show that Tesco’s share of the takehome beer and wine market slipped from 25.5% to 24.6% in the year to March 20th while that of SuperValu rose from 26.1% to 26.7% and that of Dunnes rose from 17.2% to 18.5%.
Discount shopper Aldi saw its share of beer and wine sales rise from 10.2% to 10.4%.
Lidl’s share meanwhile shrank from 11.5% to 11.4% and ‘others’ also saw a further share loss to 8.4% from 9.5%.
However over the three month period to March 22nd sales of beer and wine rose by 14.5% adding an additional €24.6 million to the market according to Kantar Worldpanel while total grocery spend was up by 10.1% bringing an additional €255.4 million to the market.