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Beer & Craft

Best Demand Forecasting Software for Belgian Craft Breweries

Belgium's brewing sector exports roughly 70% of its beer production, making it one of the most export-dependent beer industries in the world. Yet export volumes

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Best Demand Forecasting Software for Craft Breweries

The US craft beer market has plateaued at around 13% market share — and with 9,000+ breweries competing for the same 12–15 tap handles at any given bar, demand

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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

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Best Inventory Visibility Software for Beer Distributors

The average beer distributor manages 800+ active SKUs across multiple temperature-controlled warehouses, with freshness windows that make stock rotation non-neg

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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

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Best Inventory Visibility Software for Craft Breweries

US craft beer production fell 5.1% in 2025 — the sharpest single-year decline on record — with 481 brewery closures and only 300 new openings. In a market contr

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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

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How to Reduce Stockouts in Craft Beer Distribution

A craft beer stockout isn't just a missed sale — it's a tap handle your brewery partner can lose permanently, an account that fills with a competitor's product,

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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

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Wine & Spirits

Best Demand Forecasting Software for Bordeaux Wine Exporters

Bordeaux exports fell 4.5% in volume to 16.6 million cases in 2024, while export value slipped 1.4% to €5.28 billion — the lowest volume since 2017 but with rel

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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

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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.

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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

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Best Demand Forecasting Software for UK Wine Importers

UK alcohol duty rose 4.3% on 1 February 2026, and the wine easement that covered 11.5% to 14.5% ABV — roughly 80% of the UK wine market — ended the same day. Ev

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Demand Forecasting Software for Yarra Valley Wine Producers

Australian wine exports fell 7 per cent by volume to 603 million litres in the 12 months to March 2026, while export value fell 14 per cent to $2.28 billion. By

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Best Inventory Visibility Software for California Wine Distributors 2026

California’s 2025 grape crush came in at 2,759,202 tons, a 6.2% decline from 2024, with red wine varieties down 10.8% and average red wine grape prices falling

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Best Inventory Visibility Software for Oregon Wineries

Oregon's 2025 crush came in at roughly 58,000 tons — down 13% from 2024 and the second consecutive below-average vintage. For Willamette Valley producers managi

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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

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Best Shipment Tracking Software for Australian Wine Exporters

Australian wine exports fell 8% in value to $2.34 billion AUD in the 12 months to December 2025, with China down 17% in value and volume after the post-tariff r

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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

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Best Shipment Tracking Software for Washington Wine Distributors

Washington's wine industry ships 22+ million cases annually across some of the most geographically varied distribution territory in the US — from dense Seattle

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