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Beer & Craft
Best Demand Forecasting Software for Belgian Craft Breweries
Belgian beer exports fell 4.8% in 2025 to 14.2 million hectolitres, the third annual decline, while home consumption fell 3.2%. Exports outside the EU dropped 1
Read guide →Demand Forecasting for Michigan Craft Breweries
Michigan has 410 craft breweries, eighth most in the country, competing in the one census division that grew while national craft volume fell 4% in 2025. That m
Read guide →Inventory Visibility Software for Craft Beer Distributors
US craft brewing production fell 4 per cent to 22.03 million barrels in 2025, with 60 per cent of breweries reporting a decline. Retail dollar value slipped 2.8
Read guide →Best Inventory Visibility Software for Craft Breweries
US craft production fell 4% in 2025 to 22,034,000 barrels, and the Brewers Association's midyear report shows another 4% fall in the first half of 2026. Yet 54%
Read guide →Smart Replenishment for Colorado Beer Distributors
Colorado has 423 craft breweries, fifth most of any state and sixth most per capita. For a distributor that means a book with an unusually long tail: many small
Read guide →How to Reduce Stockouts in Craft Breweries
Craft beer production fell 4% in 2025 to 22,034,000 barrels on the Brewers Association's revised figures, retail dollar value slipped 2.8% to $28.0 billion, and
Read guide →Wine & Spirits
Best Demand Forecasting Software for Bordeaux Wine Exporters
Bordeaux export volume fell 8.9% in 2025, and the first quarter of 2026 showed the split sharply: red Bordeaux export value down 19% while white Bordeaux volume
Read guide →Demand Forecasting for Burgundy Négociants
Over the first eight months of 2025, Bourgogne exports grew 4.3% in volume but only 1.2% in value, and that gap is the whole story. Canada rose 25.3% in volume
Read guide →Demand Forecasting for California Wine Distributors
California winery inventory sat at roughly 19 months of forward supply at the close of 2025, down from above 20 months in 2024 and still above historical norms.
Read guide →Best Demand Forecasting Software for Champagne Maisons
Global Champagne shipments fell to 266 million bottles in 2025, a 2% decline and the lowest level in 20 years excluding the pandemic year of 2020. France accoun
Read guide →Best Demand Forecasting Software for UK Wine Importers
Since 1 February 2025 every still wine in the UK has been taxed on its exact labelled strength, ending the easement that taxed 11.5% to 14.5% wines at a single
Read guide →Demand Forecasting Software for Yarra Valley Wine Producers
Australian wine exports fell 6 per cent by volume to 598 million litres in the 12 months to June 2026, the first time below 600 million litres since 2004, and 7
Read guide →Best Inventory Visibility Software for California Wine Distributors
The final 2025 California crush came in at 2,761,914 tons, down 6.1%, with red wine grapes down 11.1% and red grape prices down 4.4%. Demand is shrinking too: U
Read guide →Best Inventory Visibility Software for Oregon Wineries
Oregon wineries sold 4.9 million cases in 2025, down 16%, and the harvest fell 25% to nearly 97,000 tons. Direct-to-consumer sales fell only 3.4%, while out-of-
Read guide →Performance Analytics Software for Wine Distributors
US wine sales fell to roughly 329 million cases and $74.3 billion in 2025, down 2.0 per cent by case and 1.6 per cent by dollar, a second consecutive year of de
Read guide →Best Shipment Tracking Software for Australian Wine Exporters
Australian wine exports fell 6% to 598 million litres in the 12 months to June 2026, the first time below 600 million litres since 2004, and 7% in value to $2.3
Read guide →Shipment Tracking for Tuscany Wine Exporters
In 2025 the US duty on Italian wine changed twice inside one year: roughly 6.3 cents per litre until 4 April, a 10% tariff added from 5 April, and 15% from 8 Au
Read guide →Specialty Food
Best Demand Forecasting Software for Specialty Food Distributors
Specialty food is a $200-billion-plus industry built on hundreds of small-batch SKUs, many with short shelf lives and demand that jumps with seasons, promotions
Read guide →Best Inventory Management Software for Perishable Food Distributors
For a perishable food distributor, excess stock is not slow-moving inventory; it is a write-off with a date on it. Gartner puts the median demand forecast error
Read guide →Best Supplier Coordination Software for Specialty Food Producers: 2026 Guide
The specialty food industry reached $219 billion in annual sales in 2025, according to the Specialty Food Association, but it runs on a supply chain infrastruct
Read guide →Supply Chain Software for Specialty Food Importers
A specialty food importer sits at the seam where a foreign supplier's lot records, a customs entry, and a domestic distributor's requirements all have to reconc
Read guide →How to Reduce Stockouts in Specialty Food Distribution
In specialty food, a stockout on a core line can cost the account, not just the order, because chefs and specialty grocers build menus and shelves around produc
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