Share

Sommeliers Choice Awards 2024 Winners

How to Optimize your Bottle Price and Increase Sales

This article explores essential tools and strategies for your commercial sales team.

Photo for: How to Optimize your Bottle Price and Increase Sales

Over the past decade, the uncompromising nature of recent commoditization trends and large scale mergers and acquisitions, along with a steadily expanding competition pool, have effectively diminished expected margins for independent wine, beer and spirits producers down from highs of 40-50% gross margin to accepted current levels of 20-35% gross margin. These financial strains have created a highly competitive marketplace in which pricing strategy has become an integral part to any commercial finance team’s overall success. From procurement to customer tendency, there is little room for error and business hinges on understanding all underlying causes liable to cause quarterly variances in projected profit margins.

How can you protect against margin contraction in an increasingly cost heavy market?

What are the leading strategies used by some of the most successful commercial teams?

How can you identify problems within your pricing management team?

BTN Premium Content

BTN Premium Members, please Log In to access the complete Webinar.

Not a member? Please Sign Up now and choose your Premium plan.

BTN membership gives you full access to articles and webinars on BTN + other benefits like:

  • Full Access to BTN Consultants
  • Full Access to Buying Leads
  • Post Unlimited Brands
  • Full Access to all Articles and Webinars
  • Full Access to BTN Live conferences presentations and speaker sessions
  • Discounted rates to exhibit at major partner events and conferences
  • And Much More...

Your BTN Membership will reduce your trial and error time: Why experiment with your branding and distribution when you can fast-track your time to success? Get 'How to do it' content which will help you improve your sales and grow your distribution. Just one article can help you make better decisions and improve your distribution strategy. View Plans Now

2025 London Wine, Beer and Spirits Competitions Is Now Open. Enter Wines, Beers and Spirits Today and Get A Boost Globally.

More articles

23/05/2016

Top Tips to Navigating the Bulk Wine Market

Operations and Management

Whether you are starting a new private label, trying to procure wine to meet demand or offloading excess inventory, understanding how to successfully buy and sell bulk wine is an essential part of any modern wine business.
Read More
17/03/2017

10 Factors in Your Press Release That Will Catch the Media Attention

Operations and Management

Every spirits brand is vying for the media’s attention. But, what does it take to get noticed? And how do you tell your story to make your spirits brand shine? BTN talks to Gregg Glaser, Publisher & Editor of the Modern Distillery Age, a weekly e-newsletter/magazine for the U.S. spirits business about ten factors in your press release that will catch the media’s attention.
Read More