Poor Millennial drinkers replacing affluent Boomers = Grim news ahead for wine biz

January 18, 2018 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Growth of wine in cans and other alt-packaging is outpacing glass.

Source: Nielsen

January 17, 2018 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Brick & mortar missing the boat. 50% of US online buyers like store pickup, but only 29% of retailers offer it

See this previous Daily Data: Digital is local: Half of US internet users report using buy online, pick up in-store (BOPUS) options

January 15, 2018 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Unbelievable! The current minimum wage hasn’t been this low since the end of WWII (Inflation adjusted)

Source: Washington Post

January 12, 2018 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Digital Making Inroads in U.S. Retail, But Print is (Still) Not Dead

Source: Nielsen

January 11, 2018 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Winery sales growth showing disturbing downward trends – Silicon Valley Bank

Source: Silicon Valley Bank

January 9, 2018 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Wine, beer & spirits narrowly squeak by 2017’s “retail apocalypse.”

Below is a truncated version of the bottom of the full list. See the source link for full scores of 59 categories: US labor Dept. via Washington Post

January 8, 2018 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

WEED a high point for Constellation as Ballast sinks its craft beer buy

Source: RBC Capital Markets. Stock quote at: WEED: CN Toronto “In F1Q18, Constellation took an impairment charge of $86.8M to its craft beer trademark asset as a result of the weaker-than-expected performance of Ballast Point. We note that the gain in the Canopy investment more than offset the earlier write-down on Ballast Point.” — RBC […]

January 5, 2018 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

These are the exact addresses of damaged PG&E equipment suspected in the October 2017 Wine Country wildfires

Click the interactive map, above to learn specific addresses of PG&E equipment failures suspected in October fires. Full Press Democrat article at the this link

January 4, 2018 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More

Wine’s global share of alcohol consumption has plunged by more than half since the 1960s!

Source: Global wine markets, 1860 to 2016: a statistical compendium

January 3, 2018 | Filed under Daily Data | Read More