Italian wine merchants go to far east, India and Singapore

The average consumption of wine in the Indian sub-continent is one tablespoon per year. Certainly this is not a mass-consumption, but given that in India live 1.1 billion people here is that the perspective is reversed, allowing a glimpse of great opportunities for the future of italian wine merchants. These are some of the data processed by Centro Studi Vinitaly in VeronaFiere. After an economic growth of 9.1% for fiscal year 2007/2008, it is stated in a note, India is now recording a growth rate lower, but still higher than other economies, at around 5%.
The 'upper class' of India grows, today represents about 2% of the population, between 20 and 25 million people. More specifically, the value of alcoholic drinks consumed in India is about to reach eleven digits (currently worth 9 billion euro) and if it is true that this market is now heavily focused on beer and spirits, the italian wine merchants are already preparing their products for indian market. It is no coincidence that, as regards the wine, consumption will grow steadily by 20% annually, with preference towards aromatic whites to marry with the spicy cuisine of the subcontinent. A different but no less interesting, is offered by Singapore. Faced with a local market numerically small (about 4 and a half million inhabitants), the growing strategic importance to the role of wine hub "which represents the small country in Southeast Asia, mainly aimed at China. A showcase now occupied almost entirely by France (75.9%) and Australia (11%), but where the Italian wines, which now represent just 2.3% of the total, can aspire to significant achievements. The total import of wine from our country was 287.2 million euros in 2007, with a growth rate of around 6% in recent years.

italian wine merchants love Usa

American woman, 35 years old, income of about 75mila dollars a year, she looks for Italian wine, preferably red. It's the identikit of the average consumer of wine in the U.S., according to data compiled by the Center for Studies Vinitaly VeronaFiere presented today 2 april 2009 in Vinitaly in the course of the conference "The new frontiers and opportunities for Italian wine merchants in the U.S. market".
Even in times of crisis, the wine in the United States shows no signs of recession, confirming itself as a great opportunity for Italian wine merchants. In 2008 the U.S. market closed "stable", standing at around 3.6 billion bottles consumed, in line with the results of the previous year. A master in the choices of consumers is still red wine, which in the U.S. represents about 44% of the market.
Looking at these perspectives that many italian wine merchants, in October 2009, will fly to the United States to Vinitaly U.S. Tour 2009 -
Exhibition of quality Italian wines that will touch the most important places for the exchange of goods of the agri-food sector.
It will begin October 19 in San Francisco, a city opened for the new trends and receptive particularly with regard to the consumer ( California is the first American consumer of wine). 21 october 2009 Vinitaly U.S. Tour will be in Chicago, one of the ten most influential cities in the world and among the largest trade fair and exhibition centers of the globe and then Houston, Texas.

2009, Italian wine merchants +12% in Uk

2009 start with a positive sign for the Italian wine merchants that go to Uk: in January there was an increase in value of 12% of the export from Italy to British market, for a total value of 571 million pounds. There was also an increase of 4% of the volume and 8% of the average price per bottle, which arrives at 3.91 pounds against 3.63 pounds of the same period in 2008, according to Nielsen data. This is what emerged at the conference organized by Fedagri-Confcooperative under Vinitaly in Verona.
In Uk Retail (GDO) , which sells 80% of the wine, has been a growing demand for higher-end wines at £ 3 (+31%). Growing consumption of white wines (share 65.8%, +4% compared to January 2008) and red (25.2%, +4%) and there is a real boom in rosé (8.9 %, +8%). England, said the president-Fedagri Confcooperative Paolo Bruni, is a country where food is sold mostly in supermarkets, where our italian wine merchants are leaders because their business model has price, quality and volumes to be "the ideal Gdo partner".