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In November, we completed a survey of 542 members of the Wine Opinions Trade Panel on current business conditions and expectations for 2022. While our research is normally focused on the consumer, we felt a project focused on the trade was useful at this time because:
- Conditions had changed so much and were shifting again, i.e. the way in which the consumer encounters and acquires wine in the marketplace.
- The major concerns of the trade could provide future issues and hypotheses to test for consumer research in 2022.
We asked about business conditions and inventory during the pandemic, expectations for 2022 in terms of purchasing and category trends, adoption of B2B purchasing technology and which categories of product they were optimistic or pessimistic about.
Here’s an example from the report. We asked importers, distributors and on/off-premise retail whether they expected to increase or reduce the number of items in various categories in 2022. The following chart summarizes the results.
Overall in most cases “stay the same” is ahead, but it’s notable that in most categories, increase is far ahead of decrease. This suggests most of the inventory pruning or SKU reduction from the pandemic has already taken place.
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Bourcard Nesin (Moderator) – Analyst at Rabobank covering beverage industry and digital transformation across CPG
Tammy Ackerman – VP retail e-commerce at Treasury Wine Estates
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Isaac Herrera – VP, Ecommerce & Digital Strategy at Daou Vineyards
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