While the broad perception today is that the global spirits market is rapidly approaching hegemony under the leadership of a number of multinational companies, the reality is somewhat different. It may surprise, but the top ten multinationals in volume terms only have around a 15% market share of the global spirits industry.
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There are few categories that are as international in scope as Scotch whisky. Scotch sells more than a million cases in 20 markets, and more than half a million in an additional ten markets.
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Tequila has been displaying high volume growth across a broad spectrum of international markets over the last few years. Indeed, some 13 out of the top 15 global Tequila markets posted gains over the 2003-2008 period analysed in just-drinks’/IWSR’s brand new global Tequila market review.
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The non-Scotch whisk(e)y market – chiefly comprising Irish, American, Canadian, Indian and Japanese whiskies – is one of the largest growth areas of the global wine and spirits industry. The performance of the three most international non-Scotch whisk(e)y categories – US, Canadian and Irish – has been more varied. Irish whiskey is currently the most rapidly rising of the three, accelerating at an impressive rate and rising by 8% CAGR between 2003 and 2008 to reach 4.46m cases.
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