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Merrydown

Cider rolls out fox label

MERRYDOWN is rolling out the new foxy packaging used on its two newest launches to the rest of the range. Following what it says is...
Magners

Magners’ plays summer nights

IRISH cider brand Magners is to sponsor a summer music festival at Glasgow’s newly refurbished Kelvingrove bandstand. The Magners Summer Nights festival will be...
Savanna

A world of cider on the shelf

SOUTH African cider brand Savanna, which claims to be the fourth best selling cider in the world, has appointed SHS Sales & Marketing to...
Amberdown

Cider’s new look

AMBERDOWN, Today’s Group’s own-label cider range, is getting a summer makeover. The label’s Dry Apple Cider and White Cider are both being relaunched in...
Facing up cider at Scottish Grocer’s 2013 Cider Retailer of the Year, Spar Tullibody. Flavoured ciders have provided most of off-trade cider’s growth in the last few years. But one firm says 2013 brought some signs of change in Scotland’s impulse outlets.

Still playing the fruit machine?

Fruit flavoured ciders have seen soaring sales and continued to grow even when the cider boom slowed in recent years. Are they still the...
Strongbow Dark Fruit. The Heineken-owned flavoured cider, launched ahead of summer last year – said to have taken a 5% share of off-trade cider sales within eight weeks of launch.

Here for the long term

IT may not be quite the booming drinks category that it was three or four years ago but cider is still very important to...
Rekorderlig

Backing cider’s taste of winter

SEASONAL special from Sweden Rekorderlig Winter Cider is, says the brand’s UK distributor Chilli Marketing, back by popular demand and set for its biggest...
Merrydown Cider

Festively fruity

TOTAL take-home alcohol sales value increased by 2% last Christmas, generating £4.1 billion-worth of retail sales in the 12-week festive period, said Amanda Grabham,...
Strongbow

No 9 drinks brand’s dark entry

CHRISTMAS 2013 will be the second festive season for cider market leader Strongbow since its major brand makeover in summer last year and...
New flavour an enduring passion

New flavour an enduring passion

IT’S not so limited any more. Swedish cider brand Rekorderlig launched its Passion Fruit flavour as a limited edition in April. But what was intended to...
Cider was one of the most successful drinks categories for many years but market and industry analyst Key Note found that 2012 was a much tougher year for the cider brands. The bright spot it reckons is fruit cider. The fruit cider products, which marry apples with berry and other fruit flavours, are showing significant growth.

Apples are not the only fruit

STRAWBERRY, blueberry, lime, even tropical fruit … those are just some of the flavours that are lighting up the cider market according to Key...
Cider brands

Cider brands part of the game

IF any proof is needed that major cider brands are now slugging it out with the beer giants in the long alcoholic drinks market...
Kopparberg

Flavour finds favour

THE demand for new and exciting flavours is the driving force in the cider market, according to Heineken, owner of Strongbow and Bulmers. While everyday...

Cider is hot stuff

HOT weather and the music festival season have been good news for Swedish fruit cider brand Kopparberg. In the first half of July, sales...

Time to get serious – make the best of cider days

It’s been the undisputed boom product in long alcoholic drinks in recent years – ever since an Irish brand introduced the world to cider...

Diamond buy for Brookfield

DRINKS marketing firm Brookfield Drinks has acquired Diamond cider from C&C group. The company plans to reposition Diamond as part of a portfolio of...