Brown-Forman brought the curtain down on third-quarter results reporting season yesterday, with its figures from the three months to the end of October (the company's reporting year runs to April). The group's 3% sales increase represented one of the better performances of the brand owners in Global Drinks Intel's coverage, in what has been a mightily sobering round of results.Indeed, growth of any kind is not to be sniffed at in Q3, with almost half of the 14 brand owners coming in down on the corresponding period in 2023.Editor's Note: Two of the publicly-listed alcohol brand owners that fe
Alcohol brand owners in Q3 2024 – The winners and losers, so far – Category Intel
With the third quarter of 2024 now in the rearview mirror, Global Drinks Intel considers which listed alcohol brand owners in its results coverage led the pack in the three months to the end of September and which companies have ground to make up before the year is out.

Olly has been reporting on the beverage industry as a B2B journalist since 2003. He spent 18 years at Just Drinks, 16 of which as managing editor. Since joining Global Drinks Intel in 2022, he's interviewed the CEOs for brand owners including AB InBev, Campari Group, Carlsberg, Heineken and Suntory Global Spirits and has a bulging contacts book from across beverage alcohol worldwide.


