Key insights and drivers behind the beer and cider market performance
Scope
- Argentina’s beer & cider sector faced significant challenges due to high inflation and weak economic performance in 2024. This led to an annual volume decline of 18.7%.
- Growing health concerns are impacting consumer purchasing choices, leading many to prefer low-alcohol or zero-alcohol options.
- Lager was the most-consumed beer type, capturing a 97.9% volume share, while stout accounted for a 1.3% share.
- Quilmes dominated the Argentine beer & cider sector in 2024
- Superpremium brands performed well in 2024
Reasons to Buy
- Gain an in-depth understanding of the dynamics and structure of the Argentine beer & cider sector, from the latest competitive intelligence of both historical and forecast data to enhance your corporate strategic planning.
- Understand volume vs. value data and identify the key growth opportunities across the superpremium, premium, mainstream and discount segments to best target profitability.
- Interrogate the unique granularity of our data to analyze the market on a variety of levels to make well-informed decisions on future threats and growth prospects in the marketplace for your company.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Executive Summary
- Industry Snapshot
- Sector Snapshot
- Beer & Cider Volume and Value Growth Projections
- Enablers and Inhibitors of Beer & Cider Growth
- Category and Segment Insight
- Beer & Cider Winners and Losers
- Beer Category Overview
- Beer Type Evolution
- Craft Beer Segment Dynamics
- Cider Category Overview
- Cider Type Evolution
- Flavor Dynamics - Cider
- Brand vs. Private Label Dynamics
- Price Segmentation
- Alcoholic-Strength Segment Dynamics
- Beer: Emerging Trends & Opportunities
- Company and Brand Insight
- Top Beer & Cider Company Dynamics
- Leading Company Profiles
- Tier 2 Companies - Key Callouts
- Top Beer & Cider Brand Dynamics
- Brand Spotlight Case Studies - How to Win
- Brand Spotlight Case Studies - What to Learn
- Global Patent Filings
- Distribution Insight
- Beer & Cider Channel Dynamics
- Beer & Cider Sub-Channel Dynamics
- Price Point Analysis
- Packaging Insight
- External Packaging Influences
- Packaging Snapshot
- Packaging Material Snapshot
- Packaging Type Snapshot
- Consumer Insight
- Key Drivers Influencing Beer & Cider Consumption
- Wellbeing
- Environmental Responsibility
- Actionable Insights
- Actionable Insights
- Targeting Emerging Segments and Trends
- Appendix
- Category Definitions
- Packaging Definitions
- Channel Definitions
- Research Methodology
- About the Analyst
- All alcoholic drinks (000s HL) incremental volume, 2025-30f
- All alcoholic drinks (volume) CAGR, 2025-30f
- Beer & cider volume and value growth projections, 2024-30f
- Beer & Cider Volume and Value Growth Projections
- Beer & cider category performance, 2023-24
- Best-performing beer types by volume (000s HL), 2024
- Best-performing beer types by value (LCU million), 2024
- Best-performing cider types by volume (000s HL), 2024
- Best-performing cider types by value (LCU million), 2024
- Performance of top companies, 2024
- Performance of top brands, 2024
- Performance of retail and foodservice channels, 2024
- Top growth opportunities in retail
- Top growth opportunities in foodservice
- Performance of packaging, 2024
- All alcoholic drinks (000s HL) incremental volume, 2025-30f
- All alcoholic drinks (volume) CAGR, 2025-30f
- Beer & cider volume and value growth projections, 2024-30f
- Beer & Cider Volume and Value Growth Projections
- Beer & cider category performance, 2023-24
- Best-performing beer types by volume (000s HL), 2024
- Best-performing beer types by value (LCU million), 2024
- Best-performing cider types by volume (000s HL), 2024
- Best-performing cider types by value (LCU million), 2024
- Performance of top companies, 2024
- Performance of top brands, 2024
- Performance of retail and foodservice channels, 2024
- Top growth opportunities in retail
- Top growth opportunities in foodservice
- Performance of packaging, 2024
- Sector volume (000s HL), 2024
- All alcoholic drinks market share and per capita consumption, 2024
- Beer & cider sector size (000s HL, LCU million), 2020-30f
- Beer & Cider Volume and Value Growth Projections
- Beer volume (000s HL) and value (LCU million) size, 2020-30f
- Beer type size, volume (000s HL) and value (LCU million), 2024
- Beer types, value & volume category share, 2024
- Craft beer size, 2019-24, 000s HL
- Cider volume (000s HL) and value (LCU million) size, 2020-30f
- Cider type size, volume (000s HL) and value (LCU million), 2024
- Cider types, value & volume category share, 2024
- Beer private label size & annual growth, 000s HL, LCU million, 2024
- Private label share of total beer, value and volume, 2024
- Beer & cider price segment 2024 volume (000s HL), average price (LCU), value (LCU million), and 2023-24 growth
- Alcoholic-strength bands, volume market share, 2024
- Alcoholic-strength bands, incremental volume, 000s HL, 2023-24
- Alcoholic-strength bands, volume CAGR, 2019-24
- Leading Company Profile 1: Company size, volume (000s HL) and value (LCU million), 2020-24
- Leading Company Profile 1: Company key brand size, volume (000s HL), and growth (%), 2024
- Leading Company Profile 2: Company size, volume (000s HL) and value (LCU million), 2020-24
- Leading Company Profile 2: Company key brand size, volume (000s HL), and growth (%), 2024
- Leading Company Profile 3: Company size, volume (000s HL) and value (LCU million), 2020-24
- Leading Company Profile 3: Company key brand size, volume (000s HL), and growth (%), 2024
- Total beer & cider patent filings for key markets, 2024
- Foodservice vs. retail annual beer & cider volume growth evolution, 2020-30f
- Beer & cider volume share by channel, 2024
- Beer PPL (LCU) evolution foodservice vs. retail, 2020-30f
- Cider PPL (LCU) evolution foodservice vs. retail, 2020-30f
- Packaging material volume share, 2024
- Packaging material annual volume growth, 2019-24
- Packaging material volume CAGR, 2019-24
- Packaging type volume share, 2024
- Packaging type annual volume growth, 2019-24
- Packaging type volume CAGR, 2019-24
Companies Mentioned (Partial List)
A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:
- Quilmes
- CCU Argentina
- Bodegas Cuvillier
- El Bolsón
- Antares
- Cepas Argentinas
- Barba Roja
- Frutapac