Market Focus

The Soil Association’s 2018 Organic Market Report – launched today (Wednesday 7 February) – reveals the UK organic market is now worth more than ever at £2.2bn, growing 6% in 2017. The market has now [read more…]

The end of 2017 saw significant M&A activity in the UK retail sector, including Tesco securing its supply chain with its acquisition of Booker Wholesale. A new opportunity in the sector is now available with [read more…]

Leading hot drinks manufacturer, Barry Callebaut Beverages UK, has reported a rise in sales of premium brand, Van Houten and an increase in its UK market share, with the brand name giving the products leverage [read more…]

Rum is proving to be a big hit with Brits who have showed their love of the pirates’ tipple according to the latest sales figures. After Christmas sales are taken into account, rum is expected to [read more…]

London is in the grip of a gin boom with the capital now boasting at least 24 gin distilleries, accounting for one fifth of the total number in England. In a recent survey 28 per [read more…]

A new league table has been revealed today (Wednesday 11 October) as part of Soil Association’s Out to Lunch campaign, ranking 25 of the UK’s most popular restaurants*. After recruiting an army of parent secret [read more…]

Researchers took an in-depth look into the hot beverage habits of the nation – and discovered that 61 per cent of us prefer drinking coffee. And, according to the data by syrup makers MONIN, we consume [read more…]

The warm weather at the beginning of the summer helped propel annual cider sales above the £1bn threshold for the first time since 2014. Sales of cider rose 5.5 per cent year-on-year to just over [read more…]

British drinkers are increasingly favouring premium drinks from branded pubs and upmarket bars, new data from CGA’s exclusive Alcohol Sales Tracker reveals. The research estimates the total value of the out-of-home alcoholic drinks market at [read more…]