Regular WikiTrends readers have seen a progression in the way wine is being sold and marketed around the world, trending downwards to appeal to a less-snobbish clientele. Even in France, the spiritual home of fine wine, we have seen wine sold in cans and even...
Beer aficianatos around the world know that we are living in a golden age of brewing that is spoiling us for choice with great beers coming from lesser-known breweries. Now the breweries themselves are becoming more artisian and specialized. What is smaller than a microbrewery, or even the majority of brewpubs? That’s right. A nano-brewery. It'...
Since the world's first cat cafe opened in Taiwan in 1998, there have been dozens of, ahem, copycats in cities around the world, from Bangkok and Budapest, to Munich, Montreal and Paris. This month, London got its own cat cafe called Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium. British cat lovers can now have a cuppa surrounded by a pride of the cafe's eleven...
Weird-looking natural food stores were once considered to be on the fringes of urban grocery stores. But as eating healthfully has become normalized, natural food emporiums like Whole Foods in the USA and Food Lover's Market in South Africa have become the mainstream markets for a large, wealthy segment of the population. Meanwhile, as the...
The "ready to drink" (RTD) market is in a state of flux. Sugary drinks are seeing steep declines and energy drinks have reached saturation points. It's no surprise then that we are seeing the market for canned and bottled drinks take many different directions lately. Regular readers of WikiTrend already know about reduced-sugar sodas, sparkling...
Regular readers of WikiTrend, along with regulars at bars, know that we are living in the Golden Age of beer. When it comes to choice, there is now an embarrassment of riches with the number of brands and brews seemingly almost limitless. Walk into most bars in North America or Europe and you will likely see a number of taps dedicated to...
In our continuing focus on trends related to the fast changing drinks industry, we are spotlighting yet another new mashup segment: caffeinated juices. While traditional soft drink sales are declining, producers are filling in the gaps with a wide variety of newcomers including low-sugar drinks, sparkling coffees, caffeinated sodas and sports-...
In the US and Europe, sweet sugary drinks aren't selling as well as they used to. In response, the big bottlers are scrambling to come up with new formulas that play to more contemporary tastes. In the past few years, sparkling fruit juices became one of the fastest-growing sub-categories within the fizzy drinks market. And last year, sodas...
