Tight Market is Tough to Crack
Wine’s route to market has changed significantly over the past three years. Just as wineries have invested thousands in new systems to facilitate direct engagement with their customers, distributors have spent millions on technology designed to make it easier for accounts to place and manage orders. The systems also facilitate the collection of data and […]
Top 10 US Wine Distributors
It’s been business as relatively close to normal in the U.S. three-tier market where the largest wholesalers remain firmly in place at the top as seen in the 2022 Wines Vines Analytics’s ranking of the top U.S. wine distributors. Several opened new distribution centers across the United States in concert with ever-improving digital infrastructure to […]
Imperative for New, Diverse Drinkers
Wine is too formal, too expensive, too hard to understand and just too white. Those aren’t new criticisms of wine and the answers to them aren’t exactly new as well. What’s changing is that implementing such measures, and increasing sales among Black, Hispanic and the increasing diversity of ethnicities of consumers in the United States […]
Industry Metrics: Total Sales up 11%
Value of Domestic Wine Sales for 12 months ended August 2022 +11% U.S. wine sales including bulk imports, bw166 Other Wine Industry August 2022 (versus August 2021) data: -2% off-premise sales value, NielsenIQ channels +49% on-premise sales (52 weeks ended July 16), CGA by NielsenIQ -8% DtC shipment value, Wines Vines Analytics/Sovos ShipCompliant 40% […]
Brand Discovery Has Shifted to Retail
Adam Pizer has been the vice president of wine business development for Breakthru Beverage Group since August 2019. Prior to joining Breakthru, Pizer was with the former Young’s Market Company where he had started as an account manager in 1998 in the Los Angeles market before steadily rising through the ranks to senior vice president […]
Upcoming Events
Nov. 15-18: SIMEI Hosted by the Unione Italiana Vini (UIV) consortium of winemaking and bottling equipment vendors, SIMEI is a global trade show and conference held at Fiera Milano in Milan, Italy. SIMEI Nov. 16: Winejobs.com Summit The forum for wine industry human resources professionals at the Culinary Institute of America in Napa, Calif. Winejobs.com Summit Nov. […]