Tag: cider
Flavours of the year?
NEW products will again play a big part in the performance of flavoured cider this year, predicts market research firm Nielsen in its latest...
Whiskey provides core for new spider
CIDER brand Magners is on the search for spider men and women with its latest launch.
Last month Magners with Irish Whiskey (ABV 5.5%) became...
Scotland’s most valuable off-trade cider brands
Does fruit hold the key?
OUR current millennium is in its 15th year. In that period one of the most fascinating drinks categories has been...
Ales up as lager prices drop
Drinks account for a significant proportion of many c-stores’ total revenue. Long drinks, such as beer and cider, are often particularly important to impulse...
Fruit flavours power ahead
CIDER has been a drinks success story in recent years but last year the performance in terms of sales growth was very mixed, says...
Beautiful big four aim for c-stores
JOHN Logue, customer marketing manager with Chilli Marketing, which handles Swedish flavoured cider range Rekorderlig, said some of the biggest news
on the brand in...
Merrily making a meal of cider
FOOD matching will be a priority for Merrydown promotion in 2015.
Debs Carter, marketing director alcohol at SHS Drinks, said: “Cider and food matching represents...
Bring the festival home
ED Shoebridge, head of customer marketing at C&C Group, reckons launches and promotions of fruit ciders have added dynamic energy to the cider market.
He...
2014 brings a hot season to build on
CIDER, of all types,traditionally does well in summer. So, with some decent weather to enjoy this year, was it a boom time for cider...
Winter cooler
CIDER may often do well in summer but the cider firms are keen to extend sales in spring, autumn and winter too.
• Swedish cider Kopparberg...
Apple of the global eye
Italy v Belgium sounds like a football match taking place at the World Cup. But it’s also a contest that could very soon be...
The touch and feel of Sweden’s summer
THE pleasures of the Swedish life are back on the agenda for Nordic flavoured-cider brand Rekorderlig in its 2014 summer marketing activity.
Linsey Adams,...
Enter the spiders
FIRST there were spirit beers. Now there are spirit ciders – or “spiders” – to grab the attention of trend-conscious young drinkers.
SHS Drinks’ first...
Stivy’s says: why stop at vodka?
RETRO flavours similar to those that inspired Stivy’s vodka liqueurs have a new incarnation – in cider. VC2 Brands, the company behind Stivy’s, Boë...
Today’s new cider is an old friend
SYMBOL group Today’s has relaunched its own-brand cider, Amberdown, in contemporary new packaging.
The Dry Apple Cider, ABV 5%, comes in 2- and...
Cider from the ends of the earth
BEER and cider producer Heineken is urging cider drinkers to ‘Get the Kiwi taste for adventure’ in a £3 million launch campaign for Old...
