03 July, 2025

If there's one spirit poised to dominate UK bars this summer, it's tequila. Recent CGA data revealed that while overall spirits sales have declined, tequila's value in the on-trade rose by 3.2% in 2024, reaching £276 million. 

Celebrate Her has teamed up with hospitality training platform Allara Global and consumer intelligence expert CGA by NIQ to launch a Data Census Survey for the drinks industry.

Italian lager Birra Moretti has overtaken Carling to become the best-selling draught lager in the UK, research from CGA finds.

New figures from hospitality trade body UKHospitality, in partnership with CGA by NIQ, have revealed that Britain’s number of licensed premises has fallen by nearly a third (31%) in the last two decades.

The new Hospitality Market Monitor from CGA by NIQ and AlixPartners has revealed that in the last 12 months, Britain has lost around one in 18 of its licensed premises, 5,736 pubs, hotels, restaurants, bars and cafes.

On-trade sales in Canada have climbed 4% higher than pre-pandemic levels, according to new data from CGA.

AB InBev has become the UK’s number one brewer by volume sales since the start of 2020.

There is increasing awareness and demand for low and lower-alcohol wines. Christian Davis checks on who’s doing what

Accolade calls for unity

28 November, 2012

Accolade Wines has called for unity across the drinks trade in a bid to encourage the UK government to re-think the alcohol duty escalator. The company's WineNation 2012 report claimed tax is having “a crippling effect” across the industry.

The Wine and Spirit Trade Association says gin and sparkling wine sales increased in the UK during the run up to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

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