Tequila net sales were up 36% in the first half of the fiscal year.
We sent six blanco tequilas to 28 members of the Tequila Matchmaker Tasting Panel to rate blind. Four of them are new to the market, and two of them are tequilas that have been around for a long time.
Diageo’s Don Julio Tequila has smashed through the million-case sales barrier for the first time, Brand Champions data has revealed.
There are reasons to believe that Menezes' self-help plan is beginning to bear fruit. The US business is back in growth, after adding George Clooney's Casamigos tequila and a number of other brands to its cabinet.
Notably, Diageo has also been striving to augment its spirit-based alcohol portfolio through acquisitions. In June 2017, the company announced the acquisition of the fastest-growing premium tequila brand, Casamigos, in a deal worth $1 billion.
The multinational beverage company Diageo laid the first stone for the expansion of its Atotonilco, Jalisco, plant this week, part of a US $400-million investment announced in 2015 after it bought the Don Julio tequila brand.
At a time when tequila sales are booming both in the U.S. and internationally, and a flood of new brands continue to appear at retailers’ doors, it’s difficult to assemble a price assortment that sticks to value as the most important matter.
Patrón, which pioneered the U.S. market’s thriving luxury Tequila segment, is now facing competition from a bevy of high-end entrants including Don Julio, Avión, Casamigos and others.
Don Julio Gonzalez began his passionate pursuit to create the world’s original luxury tequila in 1942. Now, three years after his passing, the brand that Gonzalez founded is commemorating his determination and passion by releasing “The Legend of Don Julio
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