Jun 5, 2014 | Insight, Reports
This report from Marston’s Brewery offers an overview of the cask ale market, including key trends and drinker insights. It will help retailers to develop their cask ale offer and continue category growth. The report concludes that continuing to recruit new to...
Jun 5, 2014 | Insight, Stats & Research
Coffer Peach Business Tracker has reported that managed pub and restaurant groups are enjoying a strong start to 2014 with collective like-for-like sales up 4.4% in April against the same month last year. This follows a 4.6% increase in March and 13 months of like for...
Jun 5, 2014 | Insight, Stats & Research
The late Easter and the extreme weather at the start of the year hit quarterly beer sales say the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA). The latest figures, released in the BBPA Quarterly Beer Barometer, show sales falling by 3.1 per cent in the first quarter of...
Jun 5, 2014 | Insight, Stats & Research
UK alcohol consumption per head fell again in 2013, new figures show. This is the seventh year in the past nine that there has been a fall. Consumption per head is now 18 per cent lower than it was in 2004, when the current trend began, says the British Beer & Pub...
Jun 5, 2014 | Insight, Reports
The pub sector is in the best shape its been for three decades and it has plenty of scope to grow and take market share as the economy improves, according to leading analyst Geof Collyer in an extensive report published in April on the UK’s pub and restaurant...
Jun 5, 2014 | Insight, Reports
Each year SIBA publishes a report examining the state of the British Beer Market. The headlines from this report are: 72 breweries joined SIBA in 2013. Beer production increased 5.7% from 2011-2012. 4000 permanent cask brands are now sold by SIBA members. There are...