Tag - Bord Bia

The July bar sales figures continue a downward trend for the licensed trade over the past few quarters.

Marketing

Preference for Poitín?

June 12, 2019

From left: garden designers Peter Cowell and Monty Richardson, Gold Medal Winners for The Blackwater Gin Garden (Medium Garden) at this year’s Bloom festival.

Marketing

Blackwater wins garden Gold

June 7, 2019

With so much gin about, it’s really not surprising that gin is becoming a more fashionable base for cocktails.

Marketing

Gin-based cocktails

March 21, 2019

The value of Irish whiskey exports increased by 13% - from €579 million in 2017 to €654 million in 2018 - according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office.

Marketing

2018 drinks exports up by 8%

March 21, 2019

The report defines an independent microbrewery as “one which is not under the legal or economic control of any other brewery and has a total output of beer not exceeding 40,000 hectolitres”.

Marketing

Craft beer gains just 0.1% market share

January 29, 2019

Overseas visitors’ experience with food here now far exceeds their expectations prior to their arrival in the country.

On-trade

Grow Your Own Food Business

January 10, 2019

In 2018, March was the strongest month for Irish Whiskey in the US, driving sales of $190 million, up 6% from the previous year and up 22% from the previous four-week period.

Marketing

Irish whiskey still driving beverage exports

January 9, 2019

Irish producers of beverages source non-beverage inputs from Britain and Northern Ireland.

Marketing

Brexit & spectre of cross-border trade

November 30, 2018

Drinks tourism, pop-up events, festivals and interactive spaces are encouraging people to plan drinks-led experiences.

On-trade

Pubs upping food game

November 27, 2018

At the launch of the report at The Porterhouse Brewery in Dublin were (from left): ICBI Chair Peter Mosley, ICBI Co-Ordinator Elisabeth Ryan, Report Author Bernard Feeny and Bord Bia Beverage Sector Manager Denise Murphy.

Marketing

Craft beer growth curve levelling out

November 26, 2018