Spirits sales in US Control States flat in value terms - -0.3% - on January 2023
Volumes inch up 0.9% year-on-year
The figures from NABCA from last month come with one sizable caveat: The year-prior corresponding period also includes the week of Christmas and New Year. But, before we dismiss the data outright, we must factor in eight additional selling days last month, split between Michigan (+7 days), Pennsylvania (+3), North Carolina (+2) and Alabama, Mississippi, Montana (+1 day each], offset slightly by New Hampshire's -7.With the scene now set, it remains clear that the flat sales in bo




