Recognizing the Top Alcohol Brands and Trends
EPG Media annually recognizes the fastest-selling spirits and wine alcohol brands, and their top producers, with our Growth Brands Awards. We were set to present these prizes at Las Vegas during WSWA 2020, but...
Video: How to Retail Alcohol in Our Changing World
The novel coronavirus has upended our world, and with it the beverage alcohol retail industry. The way that stores operate has changed. So too have consumer buying patterns shifted. Global alcohol producers have had...
America’s Fastest-Growing Wine Brands
In Part 2 of our 2020 Growth Brands Awards, following spirits last week, we look at the fastest-growing wine brands in America.
After 25 consecutive years of growth, total wine consumption fell 0.6% in 2019,...
America’s Fastest-Growing Spirits Brands
The 2020 Beverage Dynamics Growth Brands Awards recognize the fastest-growing beverage alcohol brands in the U.S.
With hundreds, if not thousands, of new products coming onto the market every year, how can members of the...
What Alcohol Consumers are Buying During the COVID-19 Crisis
Liquor stores nationwide have evolved with the coronavirus outbreak. While this crisis sadly decimated the on-premise industry, COVID-19 has sparked a sales boom for beverage alcohol retailers. Unable to visit bars and restaurants —...
How Liquor Stores Adapted to the COVID-19 Crisis
Alcohol remains essential. As states across the country reacted to the coronavirus outbreak by locking down businesses — devastating on-premise — liquor stores wondered whether they, too, would have to shutter. So far, with...
The Dangers of Driver Theft for Beverage Alcohol Retailers
Theft by delivery drivers is a threat to any beverage alcohol retail business. This problem can take on many forms, and often appears as every-day procedure.
On our sister publication Beverage Wholesaler, which covers the...
Here’s What Consumers Are Buying from Drizly During the CoronaCrisis
In an age of social distancing and self-isolation, many people have opted for at-home deliveries rather than risk infection by traveling to local stores. This move has increasingly included at-home alcohol orders.
Drizly, the leading...
DISCUS Working with Politicians to Mitigate Coronavirus Impact on Alcohol Industry
The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States released a statement this week highlighting how the organization plans to combat the Coronavirus impact on the U.S. alcohol industry.
"As bars and restaurants across the country...
Pennsylvania Closes All Retail Liquor Stores to Control Coronavirus
In addition to restaurants and bars, the state of Pennsylvania has ordered all retail liquor stores closed in the fight against the spreading Coronavirus.
"This was a tremendously difficult decision to make," the Pennsylvania Liquor...