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Twas a Happy Christmas for Pubs and Bars as Drinks Sales Rise 7%... ...With “Mad Friday” Delivering 2023’s Biggest On-Trade Sales Day
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Overall, on Premise drinks sales finished 2023 on a high with year-on-year growth of 7% in the final fortnight of the year, CGA by NIQ’s Daily Drinks Tracker shows.
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Christmas delivered a much-needed boost to the UK On Trade with the traditional ‘Mad Friday’ (the last Friday before the big day) producing a sales boost that demonstrated a resurgence to pre-pandemic drinking habits,
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Consumers’ growing confidence and a curtailing of rail strikes helped to lift average sales in managed venues by 9% in the week to Saturday 23 December, compared to the same week in 2022. That was followed by 6% growth in the following seven days to Saturday 30 December. Both figures are well above the latest 4% rate of inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index.
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