Seven drinks trends to watch in 2018

8th February, 2018 by Spiros Malandrakis

Glass half full?

While premiumisation, aspirational consumption and increasingly more sophisticated palates allow for a relatively buoyant and optimistic short to medium term outlook, downside risks remain. Complacency and the faith in the infinite and linear growth mantras have proven to be disastrous in the past while the severe volatility hitting markets from China to Russia to Nigeria provides fitting cautionary tales.

A potential deceleration of premium dynamics could hence hit developing markets facing black swan events as much as it could derail the growth curve in mature markets facing yet another cyclical downturn.

Diversification in category, geographical and positioning terms will provide the essential safety valve for an industry under increasing pressure.

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2 Responses to “Seven drinks trends to watch in 2018”

Dennis says:

April 24, 2018 at 7:46 pm

Spiros Malandrakis – wow…quite the read. As a F&B Manager for quite sometime now I really had a hard time understanding your thoughts in this article. Unfamiliar words and analogies coupled with paragraphs that made no sense. The message is lost in your translation of facts and foresight.

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Mark Dunn says:

February 5, 2019 at 3:54 pm

Well none of this happened. It reads as complicated as a scientific white paper on Quantum mechanics. Maybe the author should actually go out for a drink and meet real people in a bar. More actual insight in to the industry is required.

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