Beverage Alcohol

Know where the profit pool goes across every tier.

We help beer, wine, and spirits companies make better pricing, promotion, and trade terms decisions, market by market and brand by brand.

The Challenge

You set the price. Two other tiers decide what the shopper pays.

In beverage alcohol, a price or promotion decision travels through a distributor and a retailer before it reaches the shelf or the back bar. Each tier takes its margin, and the rules change by state and province.

  • Trade investment grows, but it is hard to see how much of it reaches the shopper.
  • Shipments, depletions, and scan data tell three different stories.
  • Open, franchise, and control markets each need their own pricing logic.
  • Premiumization and down-trading happen at the same time, in the same portfolio.
  • On-premise and off-premise respond to very different levers.
One bottle, three margins
Supplier
Price to distributor · Trade terms · Brand investment
↓
Distributor
Markup · Depletion allowances · Programming
↓
Retailer & On-Premise
Shelf price · Features · Menu placement
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Shopper
The price that drives volume and brand equity
Where We Create Impact

From the profit pool to the next price move.

Profit Pool Mapping

We build the margin stack by tier — supplier, distributor, retailer — brand by brand and market by market, so you can see who captures the value behind every shelf price.

Pricing & Price Ladders

We model price moves, gaps versus competitors, and the ladder between tiers and sizes to estimate the impact on volume, value, and margin before you go to market.

Promotion Effectiveness

Post-mortems that account for pull-forward, cannibalization, and pantry loading, with a clear keep, fix, or kill call for each promotion.

Trade Terms & Distributor Investment

We review what each dollar of discounts, allowances, and programming actually buys, and where terms can be restructured to pay for performance.

Price-Pack Architecture

Sizes, formats, and price points designed around occasions and channels, from minis and RTDs to large formats and gift packs.

Scenario Simulation

A simulator your team can use to compare price, promotion, and trade terms scenarios side by side and see the effect on every tier.

Alongside Your Team

An extension of your revenue management team.

Most beverage alcohol companies already have revenue management talent. What they lack is time. We add senior capacity and analytical depth, and leave the process with your team.

01

Senior Operators

Our team has led revenue management inside global beverage companies, including international brewers. We have sat in your seat.

02

Built on Your Data

We start with the shipment, depletion, and scan data you already have. You do not need better data to begin; you need a process that uses it.

03

Repeatable by Market

We document the method, the math, and the routines, so the same process can roll out to the next state, province, or country.

How We Work

Analytics. Advice. Impact.

01

Analytics

We bring your shipment, depletion, and sell-out data into one view and model how price, promotion, and terms have performed by brand and market.

02

Advice

We combine category experience with predictive & simulation modeling to recommend the price, promotion, and trade terms actions that fit your goals.

03

Impact

We help your team test scenarios, prioritize decisions, and track results, so the next planning cycle starts from evidence.

Take the Next Step

See your profit pool, tier by tier.

Tell us which brands and markets matter most, and we will show you how we would map the margin stack and where we would look first.