Sales of Brandy skyrocketed by 30.9% in worth and also 16.2% in quantity in 2021, also surpassing their pre-pandemic degree, the National Interprofessional Bureau of Brandy (BNIC) stated on Monday.
” In 2021, 223.2 million containers were delivered for a turn over of 3.6 billion euros, up 1.6% contrasted to 2019, the in 2014 prior to the health and wellness situation,” the organisation stated in a news release.
” Brandy continues to be significant by a really solid dynamic. (…) The need has actually never ever been so essential on our markets as this year,” stated BNIC head of state Christophe Veral.
The USA, the biggest export market, purchased 115 million containers in 2014, i.e. 11.1% greater than in 2020, while sales in China, Brandy’s second-largest market, leapt by 55, 8%, for 34 million containers delivered.
In other places, Brandy sales are expanding in “brand-new markets”, in South Africa and also Nigeria specifically, in addition to in conventional ones, up 8.1% in quantity in Europe.
In France, Brandy likewise taped solid development (+23.4% in quantity), driven by “the advancement of mixology”, which draws in “brand-new consumers searching for genuine items”.
On the manufacturing side, the organisation anticipates a 2021 harvest “in the ten-year standard”, with 867,000 hectoliters of pure alcohol (hl AP) generated, for a return of 10.77 hp AP/ hectare, which will certainly make it feasible “to sustain the quest of (the) development” of the field.
97% export-oriented, Brandy sales had actually dropped by 22.3% in worth in 2020, the pandemic having actually preferred sales on the web, a market where cheaper containers control.
