Trends & Analysis

Sales of low and no alcohol beer in pubs 2024

THE LOW & NO PROJECT

Low & no alcohol beer sales continue to grow

By Nikkie Thatcher

While the low and no-alcohol beer category takes up a smaller percentage of the on-trade market, it is the fastest growing sector in both volume and value sales.

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BEER REPORT 2024

Experts give comment for the Beer Report 2024

By The Morning Advertiser

If you want to know the beer trends to follow, the prices of the best-selling beers across Great Britain and how experts are seeing the future of the beer market for the on-trade – look no further.

Positive year for beer: CGA shares key trends for 2024 (Credit: Getty/Ridofranz)

Beer trends to make 2024 a 'positive year'

By Rebecca Weller

Beer sales by value are outpacing sales by volume but pubs are driving growth for the category, with key trends set to make 2024 a “positive year for beer” in the on-trade.

Say cheese: Burgers are bought in almost a quarter of pub outings (Getty/ coldsnowstorm)

23% of pub trips involve burgers

By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Almost a quarter (23.15%) of times people ate out at pubs from November 2020 to January 2022 included burgers, data from Lumina Intelligence Eating and Drinking Out Panel has revealed.

Cider crisis? ‘Drinks are fashion and the hospitality industry needs propositions that hit the trends as a method of creating value,’ Cider is Wine’s Alistair Morrell says (Image:Getty Images/DenisMArt)

Cider still a ‘relatively underdeveloped’ category

By The Morning Advertiser

Fruit cider flooding the UK on-trade just after the turn of the century saw sweet serves drench both bar tops and fridges – where they remain ubiquitous. The Morning Advertiser (MA) asks ‘have we hit peak cider?’

The Morning Advertiser Lock In podcast episode 23

The Lock In Podcast

The Lock In Podcast: Fingers on the pulse...

By Ed Bedington

As the industry starts to reopen, the Lock In team take a sideways look to see what trends are starting to emerge in food, drink, operations and consumer behaviour. The achingly hip Heath Ball and his sidekick James Cuthbertson share their insights into...

The Morning Advertiser Lock In podcast episode 7

The Lock In Podcast

The Lock In Podcast: Food glorious food!

By Ed Bedington

With food the focus under the new government restrictions for pubs, the Lock In podcast team talk about how you can create a food offer during the crisis, what makes good, and bad, pub food, the practicalities of a food offer and debate what substantial...

Best selling alcohol brands 2020

The Drinks List

The Drinks List – Top Brands to Stock in 2021

By Nicholas Robinson

Despite being closed for four months, facing strict curfews, tier systems and enduring a second national lockdown, drinks sales in the on-trade were strong when the sector was open.

Attractive offer: pubs are experiencing a healthy growth from smaller demographics

Women drive pub visit growth

By Alice Leader

New insight shows that pub visits by men declined by 0.8% in 2019, but there was a 1.6% increase in female customers, who now account for 48.7% of all pub customers.

Rachel Reeves: chair of the BEIS select committee asks PCA for progress update

Pressure on PCA ramps up after select committee letter

By Claire Churchard

Pressure on the office of the pubs code adjudicator (PCA) to account for its performance increased earlier this month following a letter from MP Rachel Reeves, who chairs the Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) select committee.

Like, what's a pub?: Generation Z puts a spanner in the works for pubs

Generation Z ‘too awkward for pubs’

By Nicholas Robinson

The next generation suffers from an obsession with social media and a limited desire to drink, which puts visiting the pub almost to the bottom of the list of where they want to spend their time.

The Pub Market Report from MCA Insight and MA will reveal how the trade has changed since 2016

Will licensee optimism continue to rise?

By Peter Linden, market analysis manager, MCA Insight

In the Pub Market Report conducted by MCA Insight and the MA last year, the key finding was that licensees were increasingly positive about trading.

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Technology

What new technology are we going to start seeing in pubs?

By Nigel Huddleston

Last month saw the ninth anniversary of the iPhone, the game-changer that transformed the humble mobile phone into a family photo album, record collection, video library, shopping mall, game centre and mind-blowing universal information resource.

Dramatic decline in young people going for pub drink

Dramatic decline in young people going for pub drink

By Emily Sutherland

The number of people heading down to the pub for an evening drink has fallen dramatically according to a new survey, with those aged 18-34 the most likely to entertain at home rather than at a pub, bar or restaurant.

M&B launches Sizzling Pizza, Pub & Carvery

Operator news

M&B launches Sizzling Pizza, Pub & Carvery

By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is to launch a new concept this week which will be a combined and evolved version of its Crown Carveries and Sizzling Pub formats called Sizzling Pizza, Pub & Carvery, M&C Report has learnt.

Pete Brown

Pete Brown on the Cask Report

By Pete Brown

Working in beer often feels like living in a busy, hyperactive bubble - less so now that beer is finally enjoying the mainstream media attention it deserves.

Young's pubs beers rebrand

Young's to rebrand managed estate and beers

By John Harrington

Young & Co’s Brewery will rebrand its Young's managed estate of 125 pubs over the next 24 months, as well as the range of ales it licenses to Charles Wells.

Willock:

Sales for show, profit for dough

By Rob Willock

Another week, another survey highlighting the problems being faced by pub licensees. This one happens to be our own, commissioned for our Pub Market Report among a cross-section of the PMA’s readership.

Yellowhammer Bars cuts estate to 17 sites

Yellowhammer Bars cuts estate to 17 sites

By Mark Wingett

Yellowhammer Bars, which is run by Volante Management, has undergone a strategic review that has seen its late-night venue estate cut to 17 sites.

Publicans demonstrate the power of positive thinking

Publicans demonstrate the power of positive thinking

By Rob Willock

The PMA’s annual Pub Market Report highlights some promising trends. Respondents to the survey cited increasingly flexible tenancy/lease contracts as one reason to be cheerful, alongside opportunities from events and occasions, food sales and hot beverages.

BBPA defends pubcos to MPs

BBPA defends pubcos to MPs

The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has written to every MP to refute claims from the Business, Innovation & Skills Committee (BISC) that the beer tie is causing pubs to close.

BISC report: conclusions outlined

BISC report: conclusions outlined

By John Harrington, M&C Report

Here are the conclusions and recommendations from today’s damning report on pubcos from the Business, Innovation & Skills Committee (BISC):

RICS: national database will help the trade

RICS upbeat on pub costs surveys

By John Harrington

The pub sector will soon have "good quality information" on running costs, which are used to set rents, for the first time - so says RICS.

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