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Further advertising appeared with Halewood International introducing its first national advertising campaign for its Red Square Irn-Bru drinks. The ads featured Scottish football pundit Alan Hansen, who was seen on 48 sheet posters on sites in English cities. The range was also supported by a cartoon style TV ad running in some ITV regions, Channel 4 and some satellite channels.

During April Bacardi-Martini increased its range of Bacardi Breezer drinks with the addition of a limited edition Cranberry variant, which was deliberately positioned as sophisticated and light tasting and designed to appeal to more mature male tastes and to take advantage of the huge growth in the cranberry drinks sector and its use as a mixer.

The company commented that the brand range was growing by A massive support programme for Bacardi Breezer kicked in at the same time. The brand also sponsored the prestigious Maim Woman of the Year awards. The posters were displayed in clubs, bars and urban areas.

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Before launching the brand was tested in 10 bars in Glasgow, Bristol and Birmingham. The drinks were originally launched in the U. There was no advertising support for the range. There were also rumours, as it happened, totally unfounded, that the company was also going to release a Tia Maria RTD. The producers also launched Blue, a vodka-based drink containing extracts of kava kava and schizandra, the follow up to its Red drink for the clubbers market.

The drink was designed to help people chill out at home after a hectic night on the razz. In June Halewood International introduced new 1. With about 1. In addition, giant paw prints were stuck to the tunnels, the first time that London Underground had ever agreed to advertising methods other than traditional poster advertising.

It also benefited from extensive on-air-promotion of the series. However, the runaway success of the brand caught the owners on the hop because it thought it had made enough provision, but demand was triple its forecasts leading to supply problems. Bulmers, who had introduced Zolensky in , gave the brand a makeover. In the meantime, Halewood International not only added a Cola variant to its Red Square range, but also launched a new range of drinks called Elements, combining fruit, herb and spice flavours with vodka.

A further range of drinks from Halewood, called Shakers Schnapps, was introduced in September. Further new brands were also added by Bass Brewers in the form of Siberian Ice, Cuban Fire and Amazon Mist, competing in the value sector and sold in nightclubs and student bars. By the end of the year the producer had also pulled its alcoholic energy drink, VR Vodka Reaction because of declining demand. The VK branding appeared on all promotional activity across the entire Sky network.

The company said that these spin offs reinvigorated the parent brands rather than cannibalised sales and planned further introductions. In keeping with the visual look of the brand, the The launch was chiefly backed by point-of-sale and promotional activity, and with the name on a million-plus t-shirts the advertising had already been done. Within days of release Alcohol Concern voiced their concerns.

Worried that a brand such as French Connection, that had a percentage of its target market below the legal drinking age were producing an alcoholic beverage, called for an independent watchdog to oversee the advertising pf premium packaged spirits and similar drinks, to monitor how they were portrayed to young people. The advertising industry voiced similar concerns about the marketing of fcuk spirit because it said that French Connection had courted controversy in the past.

In the months before Christmas, producers again supported their brands heavily. The brand provided free transport on buses and the underground. The deal featured use of advertising sites across the capital prior to the big night. Bacardi-Martini started to trial two new vodka and vermouth drinks. Spirito was sold in selected stores and came in two variants; Peach — a blend of vodka, Martini Rosso, Peach and sparkling water and Cranberry — a blend of Martini Extra Dry, wine, vodka, cranberry and sparkling water.

The Metz brand was also given another new look designed to increase its impact on the shelf and encourage consumers to reappraise the brand. Repackaging and a fifth flavour, Lemon and Lime was planned for launch in June. The entire range was consolidated and repackaged in March with emphasis put on the colours of the flavours.

Beverage Brands supported its WKD brand with its biggest ever TV campaign on national terrestrial and satellite channels. The ad featured the antics of the WKD lads. The brand was also backed by cinema advertising and a poster campaign featuring a humorous take on the flying duck wall ornaments. Bacardi-Martini introduced a seventh flavour, Ruby Grapefruit, to its Bacardi Breezer range, and at the same time refreshed and redesigned the bottles.

Influenced by the Matrix and Crouching Tiger-Hidden Dragon, the ad features martial art techniques and Matrix-style moves. However, in his April budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, singled out the premium packaged spirits brands and brought them into line with spirits duty adding around 11 pence to a The increase led to near panic buying by supermarkets and other retailers as stocks became all but exhausted.

The raise in tax was universally condemned as a tax on innovation and success and producers already were looking at ways to get around the increase, including changing the alcohol base of the drinks to wine or malt, as in the U.

Although the Commons committee defeated the amendment by 16 votes, the bill would be debated again. The hike in tax could also lead to bars and pubs renegotiating their contracts with suppliers or even changing to different brands.

The tax hike led to near panic buying from supermarkets and other retailers as stocks became all but exhausted. The situation left smaller off licences and chains struggling for enough supplies. There were also complaints from pub chains. Exceeding 1. Exceeding 4. Any brand 4. Any brand 5. Any brand reducing from 5. Any brand reducing from May: Bulmers — cachaca based Bambao 5.

Orange and Cranberry packs are also reduced from 10 to 8 bottles and also reduced alcohol content from 5. Rival supplier Landmark also encouraged its members to stick to the brands that had consumer exposure. Cranberry variant replaced Orange Coors Brewers — a new fifth Reef variant — Blackcurrant and Raspberry, replaced Pineapple and Citrus, as well as new packaging for the range Halewood International — added a further variant to Red Square range Pink — Grapefruit and Citrus in both The variants sold only in 4-packs.

August: Bacardi-Martini — Diageo added a further variant to its successful Archers Aqua range. Bacardi-Martini recalled the The company investigateed the problem, which it said was likely to be due to the manufacture of the glass and that there was not a problem with the drink itself.

A replacement bottle was expected to be made available within the next four or five weeks. In a survey it was reported that there were some brands on the UK market incorporating variants in the flavoured alcohol beverage sector. There are other brands and variants available but these were either being phased out or in the process of being delisted.

Of the brands identified Only 3. Only a handful of the more popular brands were produced in PET bottles and slightly more appear in cans. The most popular produced variant was Lemon including Ice with It is interesting to note that Bacardi Martini withdrew the peach variant of Bacardi Breezer at the back end of Only a small number of variants contained an energy type ingredient.

In terms of alcoholic strength variants had a 4. Over the last five or six years there have also been a number of flavoured cider brands introduced, the latest being Strongbow Spice which was not a success. It is also interesting to note that the brewers, Holsten, just before the budget, announced the launch of a range of fruit flavoured lagers aimed at bridging the gap between beer and PPS brands. Holsten Fusion was a blended lager with fruit Citrus, Apple and Kurrant to reduce the bitterness of standard lager.

However, again, the brand was not successful and was withdrawn. Another flavoured lager product was launched in the UK in October ; Salitos, brewed in Germany by Warsteiner, described as a bottom-fermented premium lager balanced with a shot of tequila de Jalisco and the fruity taste of South American limes. The reduction of alcohol content in a number of RTD brands had little to do with the consumer and more to do with payment of increasing tax bills and reduced budgets.

In the on-trade price increases rose by as much as 50p per bottle. Like Like. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Alcopops In , following the success of the Two Dogs Alcoholic Lemonade in Australia, it was announced that the brand would be introduced to the United Kingdom, distributed by the Sussex cider maker, Merrydown.

Advertising During producers of flavoured alcoholic beverages started to use end user advertising as an investment in their consumer pull-strategies. Calls on the Commission to introduce European-wide guidelines for the promotion, marketing and retailing of alcopops and designer drinks; Calls on the producers to enforce regulatory control of the promotion, marketing and retailing of these products.

Where those measures fail, calls on Member States to enact statutory regulations in line with EU guidelines; Calls on the Commission and Council to examine ways of taxing such drinks at the spirits rate; Urges the Community institutions to take greater cognisance of the need for appropriate health promotion policies for children and young people; Instructs its President to forward this Declaration to the Council and Commission.

Code of Practice sees off threat of tough laws Bass established a new sector in the flavoured alcoholic drinks category by introducing Reef to consumers, an easy to drink still alcoholic orange and passion fruit drink. Cometh the Ice Age saw all the leading producers introduce new brands and variants supporting them with huge multi-million pound marketing budgets.

Berry Fruits come to the fore started as had finished with a flourish of new brands and variants and new advertising campaigns but the category was to receive confusing and damaging news within a few short months. Tax on innovation However, in his April budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, singled out the premium packaged spirits brands and brought them into line with spirits duty adding around 11 pence to a Survey In a survey it was reported that there were some brands on the UK market incorporating variants in the flavoured alcohol beverage sector.

A very high percentage were carbonated, but still variants were on the increase. Many consumers may almost certainly have not even noticed.

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They were sugary and, in the mids, they were suddenly everywhere. Walk into a student union in that period and you would see dozens of freshly initiated drinkers making "blastaways" by mixing Castaway and Diamond White cider. Slumping followed shortly thereafter. Bacardi Breezer, launched in the UK in , and Smirnoff Ice were the heavyweights of the alcopop sector.

But surrounding them were an ever-growing coterie of brash siblings. There was WKD, launched in , and later the progenitor of wave after wave of laddish advertising. The drinks industry might have preferred to call them "flavoured beverages", but in every British newspaper they were simply alcopops. After the first arrivals in concern grew until, by , the term was in widespread use. Newspaper headlines screamed of the danger that children would be inveigled into drinking by clever marketing and branding.

The mounting concern led to consequences. Supermarkets, like Iceland, took a stand by withdrawing alcopops. The drinks industry had to respond to the deluge of negative publicity. The Portman Group, funded by alcohol producers, had been set up in to encourage responsible drinking.