A senior alcohol industry analyst has predicted that co-branded products - featuring marks owned by alcohol companies alongside soft drinks producers' - will have a part to play in the future of the RTD category.At the ProWein trade show in Düsseldorf yesterday (15 March), Euromonitor International's head of research for alcoholic drinks, Spiros Malandrakis, headed up a presentation on RTDs and their potential to drive growth for alcohol brand owners. Among the opportunities identified in the category, Malandrakis, who has been covering the alcohol industry for Euromonitor since late 2008, hi
‘Institutional hesitancy’ fades as soft drinks brand owners open up to co-branded RTDs
‘I don’t expect to see runaway success, but the current co-brands are doing pretty well.’

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.



